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industrial dentists, holds an annual meeting wherever the Industrial Health Conference is held, conducts tours of plants, publishes scientific papers, and issues an annual report of transactions Amencan Association of Industrial Nurses, Inc 170 E 61st St, New York. N Y 10021 As the national professional organization for the registered nurse working in industry, the association strives to raise the qualifi cations for industrial nurses, improve nursing services and standards, and provide educa tional programs for nurses in this special field The Industrial Nurses Journal is pub lished monthly The annual meeting is held m conjunction with that of the Industrial Medical Associa tion at the Amencan Industnal Health Con ference Amencan Chemical Society 1155 16th St NW , Washington. D C 20036 This society is devoted to the science of chemistry m all its branches, the promotion of research, the improvement of the qualifica tions and usefulness of chemists, and the distnbution of chemical knowledge Articles on safety appear in the monthly publication Industnal and Engineering Chemistry and the weekly publication Chem ical and Engtneenng News Digests of pa pers dealing with aspects of industnal hy giene appear monthly in Chemical Abstracts The society has a committee on Chemical Safety In addibon, the ACS is represented on the committee on Chemicals and Ex plosives of the National Fire Protection Association Amencan College of Surgeons 40 East Erie St, Chicago. Ill 60611 The Amencan College of Surgeons and the Amencan Association for the Surgery of Trauma are working on a major joint-action program with the Nabonal Safety Council The college has a committee on Trauma m all states and provinces of Canada and local committees on Trauma in most cihes These committees and the central committee on Trauma of the Amencan College of Surgeons are continuing their efforts on acceptable plans for the care of injured persons American Conference of Governmental Industnal Hygienists 1014 Broadway, Cincinnati. Ohio 45202 A professional association composed of industnal hygiene personnel m government (federal, state, county, or municipal govern ment), or working under a government grant ACGIH was organized in 1938 by a group of governmental industnal hygienists as a medium for the exchange of ideas, expenences, and the promotion of standards and techniques in occupational health ACGlH's wide scope of activities are ac complished through the work of its standing committees, of which there are now 15, plus five ad hoc committees, and six joint com mittees with the Amencan Industnal Hygiene Association Particularly valuable to safety professionals is Industrial Ventilation--A Manual of Recommended Practice, by the committee on industnal ventilation ACGIH publishes annually a table of recommended threshold limits (The 1968 table is published in Chapter 42 of this Manual) A list of publications will be sent on request to ACGIH Amencan Industrial Hygiene Association 66 S Miller Road. Akron. Ohio 44313 The AIHA is a professional associabon composed of industnal hygiene personnel Established m 1939 by leading industnal hygienists as a result of a need for an associa tion devoted exclusively to industrial hygiene, its purpose is to disseminate knowledge of the field and to promote the study and control of environmental factors effecting the health of industrial workers Requirements for membership are a college degree and three years of industnal hygiene expenence AIHA publishes "Hygienic Guides" (summanzing current information on physiological effects of specific chemicals, and methods of control), the Amencan Industnal Hygiene Association Journal, the Air Pollution Manual and the Industnal Noise Manual, and reports and monographs A list of publicabons will be sent on request to AIHA The AIHA, m cooperation with the Amen can Conference of Governmental Industnal Hygienists, sponsors the annual Amencan Industnal Hygiene Conference, the largest nabonal assembly for the presentation and exchange of industnal hygiene information 327