Membership Benefits

AIHA-NCS Membership Benefits

Membership in the AIHA-Northern California Section (AIHA-NCS) provides you with a wide range of networking opportunities in the occupational health and safety field. As an AIHA-NCS member, you can stay abreast of the latest developments in the field—at the local level and worldwide. Membership in your local section will keep you informed, and it will provide you with a total spectrum of activities that enhance your professional growth while promoting the occupational health and safety field. AIHA national membership is not required, but membership in both organizations is strongly encouraged to maximize your benefits.

Participation in the local section provides you with opportunities to:

1. Network and update both your technical and practical knowledge on current occupational health and safety topics at professional events including:
   • local section dinner meetings
   • Industrial Hygiene forums and review courses
   • Annual symposium
   • California Industrial Hygiene Council (CIHC) conference
2. Meet with allied professional groups, including the ASSE
3. Recognize excellence in the field through professional award selections and recommendations:
   • Local section’s Einert Award
   • Nomination of local section members for AIHA national Fellow membership
4. Promote the future of industrial hygiene through:
   • Support of local IH student participation in the local section
   • Recognition of outstanding IH students (Tebbens Award and Legge Award)
   • Community outreach activities, including “Expanding Your Horizons”
   • Mentoring

Additional benefits include:

• Ability to earn recertification points by attending the above-mentioned conveniently-located professional development and networking sessions.
• Discounts on dinner meetings, annual symposium, and annual CIHC conference.
• Free listing on our Consultant's Listing page.
• Post an unlimited number of Job Announcements with no additional fee.
• Bimonthly online newsletter containing the latest job opportunities
• Opportunity to introduce yourself at local section meetings and distribute information about your employment availability.
• Exclusive admission to the Members Only area of AIHA-NCS website which includes a directory of all local section members and an archive of federal and state legislative activity reports
• Opportunities to support others in the local section through service on its Executive Committee or its various committees
• Monitoring of and lobbying on California legislation of interest/concern to you and other industrial hygienists
• Access to the most recent local section-sponsored membership survey results--including levels of compensation received by your peers.