Our local section depends on its members to volunteer for positions on the executive committee.  Serving on the committee is a great way to become more involved in the local section, and you can claim certification maintenance (CM) credit toward your CIH.  We are currently asking for nominations for next year’s committee (serving July 2025 - June 2027):
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• President-elect, 2-year term followed by President (must also be a member of National AIHA)
• Secretary, 2-year term (must also be a member of National AIHA)
• Director, 2-year term (need not be a member of National AIHA)

NOTE:  The American Board of Industrial Hygiene (ABIH) allows you to claim certification maintenance (CM) credit annually for local section office:  local section President – 1 point; local section Officer or Director – 0.5 points.

If you would like to volunteer for elections or nominate someone, please email the Executive Committee at [email protected].   A short biography and statement of intent along with a photo are needed for any election candidates and due by February 28, 2025. 

The Pittsburgh AIHA will hold the annual President's Luncheon on Thursday, March 13, 2025 at the LeMont Restaurant on Mt. Washington in Pittsburgh.   Please plan to join us as we welcome National AIHA President, Nicole M.H Greeson, MS, CIH to Pittsburgh.

Registration will open in the coming weeks!

New this year for members --- The Pittsburgh Local Section has signed up for the Full E-learning package this year. The Package delivers up to 24 contact hours of education to members throughout the year. Registration includes live participation and recording access to 2025 National AIHA University webinar series and brings the best of AIHA Connect OnDemand. Don’t miss out on the latest occupational and environmental health and safety (OEHS) information, trends, technology, and best practices! 

An eLearning Subscription guarantees automatic registration to all of the eLearning offerings throughout 2025. The subscription allows our membership to attend each of the live sessions along with session recordings. Last year there were 25 e-learning sessions. Recordings of the best sessions from AIHA University's live event offerings covering a wide range of topics and interest areas are provided in the online classroom to view at your convenience (for group registrations, everyone on our roster will also have access).

You must be a Pittsburgh AIHA member (active membership / dues paid) to take advantage of this benefit.  Your 2025 membership payment is due now -- see the sidebar at the right for more information.   

NOW COLLECTING - Membership dues for 2025 are due December 31, 2025.   If you are a National AIHA member, remember to check the box for Pittsburgh Local Section to include your LS annual dues of $35 for your Pittsburgh AIHA membership.  All NON-National AIHA members should pay dues directly to the Pittsburgh AIHA.  See the highlighted sidebar link on this homepage to process payment through PayPal -- Note you do not need a PayPal account to pay this way.  Any questions, please contact Christy at [email protected].   

​All ACTIVE Pittsburgh AIHA Members as of 2/13 2024 should have received notice from National AIHA eLearning regarding the 2024 Pittsburgh Section eLearning Subscription.   There are FOUR courses available in the online classroom currently, the FIFTH course will be available after presentation date:

1.  AIHA University Webinar: The Revised Ergonomic Toolkit: An Introduction to Assessing Musculoskeletal Risk
2.  An Ethical Conduct Checklist for Real-Time Technology Deployment (AIHce EXP 2023 OnDemand ESUB)
3. AIHA University Webinar: Revisiting the Worst Plant: A Virtual H&S Audit Version 2.0
4. An Ethical Conduct Checklist for Real-Time Technology Deployment (AIHce EXP 2023 OnDemand ESUB)
5. AIHA University 3-Part Occupational Toxicology Webinar Series:  Mechanisms of Action, SDS Communication, and Hazard Prioritization (Part 1-Sept. 17, Part 2-Oct. 22, Part 3-Nov. 19 – NOW AVAILABLE in online classroom)

Click the link in your email to login to the online classroom to view these courses at your convenience. 

Remember that this is a benefit for PAID Pgh. AIHA members only - if you did not receive an email, please confirm that your 2024 dues are paid.  To renew your Pittsburgh AIHA local section membership, see the details in the sidebar at the right on this page, or you can subscribe on the membership page.   Please reach out to Christy at [email protected] with any questions.

2024 course selections expire on 12/31/2024.  

The Executive Committee of the Pittsburgh AIHA will hold the winter local section business meeting at Smokey Bones in Robinson PA.  All members are welcome and encouraged to attend!  Register online: 2024-12-12 Business Meeting

Topics typically discussed during this meeting include:
 - Welcome / Approve Minutes / Agenda
 - New items (Agenda to follow)
 - Treasurer and Secretary reports
 - Local section committee updates
 - Meeting topics / speakers / venues, etc.   
 - Student sections 
 - Corporate Sponsors/Advertisers 

Please consider joining the meeting to offer suggestions or provide input. Your participation is key to our success!

Click the image below to download / open the file!  

Support the Pittsburgh AIHA as a Corporate Sponsor!  The benefits of a Corporate Sponsorship contribution of $250 include:
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• 2 free individual Pittsburgh AIHA annual memberships,
• Pittsburgh AIHA Homepage sidebar logo link (THANKS TO THE 2024 SPONSORS AT THE RIGHT!!)
• 1-year listing on the Pittsburgh AIHA Corporate Sponsors page,
• 1-year listing on the Pittsburgh AIHA Consultants List page,
• Recognition in Pittsburgh AIHA local section newsletter. 

Corporate Sponsorship is renewable on an annual basis.  Visit the Corporate Sponsors Page for current sponsors and application information - You can sign up online, or print the form to complete and mail.

​Welcome to the following NEW members of the Pittsburgh AIHA!

• Ian Bubb, Slippery Rock University
• Justin Doty, Slippery Rock University
• Gianna Filosi, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
• Marley Gardner, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
• Leanna Haddix, Enviro-Air Llc
• Caleb Hoffman, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
• Taylor Neal, ProTect-All Solutions, LLC
• Andy Wright, ProTect-All Solutions, LLC​

Thanks to Dane Mitcheson, Matt Zock, Frank Pokrywka, and Tim Beck who represented the Pittsburgh AIHA at our booth and greeted MASHA attendees.  2024 marked the 15th annual conference held at the Regional Learning Alliance in Cranberry Twp., PA with a line-up of great speakers, exhibitors, and networking opportunities for professionals and students.  Thanks to all the Pittsburgh AIHA members that participated in the event this year!  visit mashasafetyconference.org for more information. 

Thanks to Frank Pokrywka who found the booklet linked below.  Click on the image to download a PDF of the handbook.

In 1917, the Carnegie Steel Company was a subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation. The Carnegie Steel Company produced Bessemer and open hearth steel in various grades.

Carnegie Steel Company was an American steel company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and founded by Scottish-born American industrialist Andrew Carnegie and a handful of associates in the late 1800s. The name Carnegie Steel Company can refer to Carnegie’s first steel plant, which opened in 1875, as well as to the vast network of steel mills he built and purchased in the late 1880s and early 1890s.

By the time the corporation was sold in 1901, Carnegie had amassed a veritable empire of steel production along the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio rivers. Each production site was supplied by Carnegie-owned mines and coke fields, and their goods were transported by Carnegie river barges. The consolidation of these steel mills and their eventual sale made Carnegie one of the richest persons in the United States at the time.

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