KPCC (FM)

2024 Upton Sinclair Memorial Lecture Examines Silicosis Epidemic Among Artificial-Stone Fabricators during AIHA Connect

Retrieved on: 
Mardi, avril 16, 2024

Jim Morris, award-winning author, journalist, and founder of Public Health Watch, will present the 2024 Upton Sinclair Memorial Lecture during AIHA Connect , the annual conference and expo for occupational and environmental health and safety (OEHS) professionals hosted by AIHA.

Key Points: 
  • Jim Morris, award-winning author, journalist, and founder of Public Health Watch, will present the 2024 Upton Sinclair Memorial Lecture during AIHA Connect , the annual conference and expo for occupational and environmental health and safety (OEHS) professionals hosted by AIHA.
  • Morris’s talk, titled “The Silicosis Epidemic,” describes the nation’s largest modern workplace cluster of silicosis, discovered in artificial-stone fabricators in Southern California.
  • The lecture is scheduled at 3:15 p.m. Eastern time on Monday, May 20, at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio.
  • Members of media interested in obtaining press passes to the Upton Sinclair Memorial Lecture should contact Jessie Lewis, AIHA’s director of marketing, at [email protected] .