Welcome to the Home Page of the Occupational Health & Safety Section of the American Public Health Association. The OHS Section facilitates information exchange, networking, and organizing among members nationwide, with the purpose of improving health and safety for all workers. Go to our Section Description page for more details.
Careers in Occupational and Environmental Health: You can find information on opportunities in occupational and environmental safety and health in our careers and opportunities booklet developed in 1996, which we hope to update.
Look here for updates on OHS Section news and events as well as programming at the APHA Annual Meeting October 25 - 29, 2008 in San Diego.
Check out our section Meeting Flyer to see the many reasons to attend.
For more information about the OHS Section, please email section Chair, Bob Harrison. To become a section member, contact Kerry Souza, membership committee Chair.
To contribute to the section newsletter, contact Editor, Ingrid Denis. To post information to this web page, contact Mary Miller.
The section also has a listserve to communicate timely information regarding important legislation, news, and action alerts. It is also available more discussion of important topics or relevant announcements to the section. Any listserve member can post a message to the group.
You can subscribe (or unsubscribe) to the listserve as follows:
- From the address you intend to receive message, prepare an email addressed to:
- In the "subject" line of the e-mail,
- Leave the body of the message blank and send it.
- You will receive a confirmation message that you have successfully subscribed.
occ-hlth-l@liststar.apha.org
(that is a lowercase letter "L", not the number 1)
type <subscribe occ-hlth-L>
To join APHA on-line, go to the APHA membership page.
Web Pages Developed and Maintained by Mary Miller