April Lunch & Learn- A Smart Lab’s Choose Your Own Adventure: Laboratory Ventilation Risk Assessment

When: April 26th, 11:30 – 1:00 pm
Where: Hellman and Associates, 11913 West I-70 Frontage Rd North, Wheat Ridge, CO 80033 
What: Ventilation is a defense mechanism to mitigate airborne hazards produced during research activities in laboratories. Yet as a vital component to maintaining healthy, safe, indoor air quality, laboratory ventilation systems can fall victim to ineffective operation, posing a risk to researchers. This presentation outlines how EHS professionals can employ a Smart Labs program. This includes completing a laboratory ventilation risk assessment—a systematic process for identifying risk from airborne hazards and informing dynamic demand-based ventilation to enhance laboratory safety and energy efficiency. Structured as a choose-your-own-adventure presentation, RMS members will be walked through how to conduct a laboratory ventilation risk assessment, such as learning how to perform a series of laboratory surveys and how to assign each laboratory characteristic with a risk control band. 

2023 Fall Technical Conference

When: September 19th - September 20th 
Where: Wheat Ridge Recreation Center 4005 Kipling St, Wheat Ridge, CO 80033
What: Planning for the 2023 Fall Technical Conference is under way! You may have noticed that the location has changed, this year we are excited to host the conference at the Wheat Ridge Recreation Center. Interested in volunteering? Subcommittees include Abstract, Conference Venue, Corporate Sponsors and Exhibitors, Registration and Conference Materials, and Room Monitor and AV support. Remember that volunteering will get you a discounted ticket to the event! Reach out to president-elect@aiha-rms.org for more information.

March Lunch & Learn- State of Workplace Mental Health 
Dr. David Shapiro presented on the state of workplace mental health in 2022/2023

and best practices from small and large employers who focus on workplace mental health. Thank you to all who came out! 

Abigail Tompkins


James Hollopeter


Jason Greenlee


Ed Stuber


Other New Members (Not Pictured):
Adam Zeigler
Amy VanAntwerp
Benjamin Frizzel
Corey Buchanan
David Krajicek
Heather Gutierrez
James Stafford
Jennifer Griffiths
John Wortman
Kelsey Townsend
Patricia Corcoran
Taylor Tarpey




Member Spotlight
This quarter we are profiling member and student liaison chair of the RMS board, Jared Schenfeldt. Jared is a student administrative assistant/ student in the masters program for Occupational Health at the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado Anschutz campus. 
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Where are you going to school and what are you studying?
I am earning a MPH in Environmental and Occupational Health at the Colorado School of Public Health.

 What made you interested in Industrial Hygiene/ joining AIHA?
I am personally interested in Industrial Hygiene as promoting the best possible occupational health is a passion of mine. Specifically, I am fascinated by ergonomics and how our body adapts to conditions it is worked in, and with chemicals and their many effects on the human body. I love chemistry, biology, exercise science and public health which makes Industrial Hygiene a perfect fit for me.

 What do you do with your time outside of school?
I love to cook, strength train, hike, play with my kitties, ski, and dance the night away at music festivals. I am an outgoing thrill seeker who loves to challenge myself and do most things that involve exploration and physical challenges.

 Where do you see yourself going when you graduate/ what are your career goals?
I see myself working within occupational health improving the lives of our workers. I could see myself as an industrial hygienist, health safety manager, or a safety consultant promoting health through toxicology, ergonomics, wellbeing interventions, and much more. One day, I would love to manage policies that ensured good worker health in all aspects for a large company or for multiple smaller to mid-sized companies as a consultant expert.

 What are you hoping to bring to the table as one of the student liaisons for our chapter this year?
I am hoping to bridge the students at the Colorado School of Public Health and our Rocky Mountain Section. I would like to see more student involvement in our events and will promote this organization to my school to make our students aware of the many opportunities that the AIHA can bring to these individuals.


Thanks Jared!