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Navigating Cannabis Worker Health: Behind the Development of Washington's Cannabis Training

Industrial Hygiene student tackles health and safety hazards in Washington’s growing cannabis industry

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Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Graduate Nurse Internship Program

Call for Applicants!

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Increasing awareness and education of substance use among commercial fishermen

Work and Health Graduate Certificate student's capstone project focuses on commercial fisherman

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From Roe to Reel: Health and Safety at the WDFW

Recently graduated MS applied student reflects on his capstone research

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Looking Back on the Successes of NOHC 2024

UW students and faculty were among the 120 health and safety professionals who attended NOHC this October

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Announcing our Bates Speaker for Cascadia 2025

Sweating Equity: An ecology of everyday life on a warming planet

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Save the date for Cascadia 2025

January 9 & 10, 2025 at the Semiahmoo Resort in Blaine, WA

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Empowerment through education and training

Industrial hygiene student shares about her work with local non-profit organization

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Real-world experiences from the OHS practice community & Mongolia

NWCOHS trainee reflects on road construction site visit

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Service before self

NWCOHS occupational health nursing alum in Guam shares her career journey

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Bringing educators, students, researchers and practitioners together to discuss cross-border issues

Another successful Cascadia Symposium on Environmental, Occupational and Population Health

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Advancing worker well-being in the workplace

NWCOHS collaborates with partners to develop new Total Worker Health® course

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Worker health and safety at Boeing

NWCOHS trainees tour Boeing

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Addressing compassion fatigue and promoting the human-animal bond

OHHAI trainee seeks to improve human and animal well-being in lab animal research

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Four Top Takeaways from the 2023 Northwest Occupational Health (NOHC) Joint Conference

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Highlights from the NWCOHS Evaluation

Learn about the 2022-2023 NWCOHS evaluation

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Exploring communicable disease prevention, heat exposure, and connecting with health and safety professionals across the county

Work and Health Certificate trainee interns at OHSA

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How occupational medicine physicians connect and support workers

Occupational medicine trainee works at small, private occupational medicine clinic in Yakima, WA

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Toxic lead exposure in traditional eyeliner

UW collaborates with Hazardous Waste Management Program to support the Afghan community

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Learning about One Health approaches to climate change

OHHAI trainee attends summer institute on One Health

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Policy-informing research on economic determinants of health

OHSR trainee highlights experiences of food insecurity in Washington State

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Understanding how labor and social determinant-related laws affect agricultural workers’ health

OHSR PhD candidate highlights the experiences of Washington State agricultural workers

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Inspiring a new generation of industrial hygienists

NWCOHS welcomes Assistant Professor Diana Ceballos

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Connecting with NWCOHS training to advance worker health and safety

Work and Health Graduate Certificate Program trainees reflect on their experience

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Understanding the complex decision-space of sustainability within animal agricultural producers

Employing a Q Methodology study to explore animal agricultural priorities

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Building connections to improve worker health and safety

NWCOHS occupational medicine trainee attends the 2022 Northwest Association of Occupational and Environmental Medicine annual conference

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Learning out in the field

Industrial hygiene students intern across the Seattle-Tacoma area

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Making an impact on health and safety training for high school students

Continuing Education partner brings safety training to the classroom

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A legacy of cross-border research impact

The Cascadia Symposium on Environmental, Occupational and Population Health relaunches January 5-6, 2023, bringing together Pacific Northwest scientists from the US and Canada

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Highlights from the Northwest Occupational Health Conference

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