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CIHC's Major Accomplishments 

  • Defined Industrial Hygienist in State Law (H&S Code 117672)  
  • Initiated and sponsored the Industrial Hygienist Definition and Registration Act (B&P Code Sections 20700-20705)  
  • Established a legislative presence in Sacramento
  • Negotiated by reducing the number of days for lead training course for CIHs to three days  
  • Negotiated the exemption for Trauma Scene Waste Management Practitioner requirement  
  • Monitored rewrite of the Professional Engineers Act  
  • Sponsored laboratory accreditation legislation  
  • Sponsored successful legislation to allow a CIH or other qualified professional to provide lead poisoning prevention services
  • Garnered strategic legislative amendments to the Toxic Mold Protection Act of 2001 assuring the participation of IH’s in developing standards to identify, evaluate, and abate mold