Webinar Recording – Lithium Batteries, Occupational Health and Hygiene Update – Friday 9th June 2023
Presenter(s): SPEAKERS: Dr Paul Mc Lucas, Medical Officer, Fire Rescue Victoria. Paul has been a medical practitioner since 2016, with a range of hospital base appointments, including Emergency and Rehabilitation Medicine. Paul has served concurrently as an operational firefighter across 3 fire services since 1996, recently combining his medical and firefighting passions commencing as a medical officer with Fire Rescue Victoria in May 2022. Craig Tonks (MAIOH), Lead Health & Hygiene, Fire Rescue Victoria. Craig has 15 years' experience as a Scientific Advisor for Hazmat emergency response with the Victorian Fire Services. Craig was recently appointed as Lead Health & Hygiene at Fire Rescue Victoria in September 2022. He has assisted in developing smoke and carbon monoxide exposure protocols during the Hazelwood Mine Fire 2014 and East Gippsland bushfires in 2020. Craig has also worked for WorkSafe NSW Chemical Analysis Branch & Occupational Medicine Unit developing biological screening for pesticides & herbicides, NSW Police Forensic Services Group and Occupational Hygienist in the mining industry. Craig leads a team of Occupational Hygienists, working in conjunction with the Chief Medical Officer, to work with Operational staff and improve the control measures FRV has to mitigate exposures to Smoke, Chemical, Physical and Biological hazards.
Recorded 9th June
Lithium Batteries, Occupational Health and Hygiene Update Recorded: Friday June 9th 2023 from 12-1pm AEST SPEAKERS: Dr Paul Mc Lucas, Medical Officer, Fire Rescue Victoria. Paul has been a medical practitioner since 2016, with a range of hospital base appointments, including Emergency and Rehabilitation Medicine.
Paul has served concurrently as an operational firefighter across 3 fire services since 1996, recently combining his medical and firefighting passions commencing as a medical officer with Fire Rescue Victoria in May 2022. Craig Tonks (MAIOH), Lead Health & Hygiene, Fire Rescue Victoria. Craig has 15 years’ experience as a Scientific Advisor for Hazmat emergency response with the Victorian Fire Services.
Craig was recently appointed as Lead Health & Hygiene at Fire Rescue Victoria in September 2022. He has assisted in developing smoke and carbon monoxide exposure protocols during the Hazelwood Mine Fire 2014 and East Gippsland bushfires in 2020. Craig has also worked for WorkSafe NSW Chemical Analysis Branch & Occupational Medicine Unit developing biological screening for pesticides & herbicides, NSW Police Forensic Services Group and Occupational Hygienist in the mining industry. Craig leads a team of Occupational Hygienists, working in conjunction with the Chief Medical Officer, to work with Operational staff and improve the control measures FRV has to mitigate exposures to Smoke, Chemical, Physical and Biological hazards.
This webinar will provide an update on the ISO Respiratory Protective Devices Standards, bringing this global Standard back to home.
Standards are used to demonstrate conformance to local regulations / laws. There is a new set of globally harmonised standards for respiratory protective devices (RPD) that changes the focus from performance by design to performance required by the wearer. The work on these standards started more than 20 years ago; with several RPD standards already published.
The webinar will cover some of the new developments and some older concepts that are new to occupational health safety and hygiene that we can use when considering skin exposure in the workplace.
The Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists (AIOH) launched Breathe Freely Australia in 2018, which provides readily available information for workers and supervisors about the hazards of toxic dust and prevention of lung diseases in various industries. In 2020, the AIOH started the RESP-FIT program, which is relevant to those who rely on respirators as protection against harmful dust. As many lung diseases are serious and irreversible, the focus must be on prevention of harm. Workers in the manufactured stone sector rely on many control measures to protect them from lung diseases such as silicosis, with one of them being respiratory protection.
This webinar will look at virtual reality as a means of helping workers to see what they otherwise cannot. Virtual reality is an administrative control, that can be used to provide a powerful message to workers to help them reduce their exposure by being able to understand where an unseen hazard exists. We will look at a case study in an underground coal mine and how the training was developed, providing tips along the way of how this can be achieved.
This webinar will provide information regarding different surface sampling methods for metal contaminants in the workplace. The talk will cover some of the more common dermal sampling methods, with a focus on wipe sampling as well as discuss in detail health hazards of metals and how to interpret the sample results using various indices.
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This presentation will cover the derivation of health-based hard surface swab criteria for per- and polyfluoroalkylated substances (PFAS) which can be used to judge the potential importance of this exposure pathway.
A general discussion will also be presented on the manner in which PFAS surface swab data can be collected and things to watch out for when interpreting the confidence in the analytical results.
This webinar will address the variability of health hazards associated with the processing of engineered stone. The materials science of conventional benchtop engineered stone, new low-silica engineered stone products, as well as other construction materials, will be covered. The complexity of pathogenesis and implications of recent research will be explored. Some challenges, misconceptions and future research directions will be discussed.
This webinar focusses on the experiences and lessons learnt from fires and floods in the management of asbestos to prevent exposures to workers and the communities caught up in the clean-ups. Our presenters have been on the front line dealing with the challenges of asbestos exposures during these tragic events.
This webinar will take participants through a journey of how Australia got to the position it finds itself in today - in the midst of a silicosis crisis.
This webinar will discuss the unusual characteristics of these chemicals, the most important exposure pathways relevant in workplaces and some of the controversy surrounding reference doses for protection of human health. Presented by Therese Manning - Principal, EnRiskS and AIOH President Kate Cole
COMED (Control Measures Efficiency Database) is a web-based tool which contains reliable, objective data on efficiency of exposure control measures. It enables users to compare efficiencies of different control options and identify key performance characteristics.Â
The presentation discusses the wide use of solvents in the workplace and often used in large quantities; used for dry-cleaning, in paints and varnishes, pharmaceuticals, degreasers, adhesives, glues, printing inks, pesticides, cosmetics, and household cleaning products.
This presentation will discuss the exposure, absorption, metabolism, and toxic effects of solvents.
