Please join us in congratulating Jim Miades, CIH on his appointment as President of Colden Corporation, effective July 1, 2024. Jim has over 25 years of health and safety consulting experience including the past 14 years leading Colden’s New York City office. Jim is assuming the role from David de Lalla, who has led the company since its inception in 1997. In his retirement, Dave will remain part of the Colden team as a Senior Consultant and Advisor.

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Colden will exhibit and speak at the 2025 New England Section AIHA All-Day Conference on October 14th, 2025, at the Four Points Sheraton in Norwood, MA. In attendance will be Susan Reynolds, MS, CIH and Shannon Magari, ScD, MS, MPH.  

Join Susan and Shannon for their presentation “Indoor Environmental Quality through Selected Case Studies”, where they’ll discuss IEQ investigative techniques, hazard assessments, and control strategies through real-world examples.  

For more information and to register, click here: bit.ly/2025allday 

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Resin acids are terpenoid compounds (diterpenes) found in coniferous tree sap or rosin (also referred to as “pitch” or “colophony”). Rosin is formed by conifer trees and shrubs to protect and preserve wood and bark and is largely composed of a mixture of resin acids from two main classes of carboxylic acids: abietic acids (e.g., abietic acid, dehydroabietic acid, neoabietic acid, palustric acid, levopimaric acid) and pimaric acids (e.g., pimaric acid, isopimaric acid, sandaracopimaric acid).

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Colden will be exhibiting and presenting at the AIHA Connect 2025 conference at the Kansas City Convention Center in Kansas City, MO, beginning on Monday, May 19th and concluding on Wednesday, May 21st. For more information about our educational sessions being presented, click learn more.

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Can you collect air samples using a method for the inhalable size fraction and use those results to demonstrate compliance with OSHA Permissible Exposure Limits for total size fractions?

Determining the appropriate aerosol particle size fraction(s) [1] to monitor is an important consideration in industrial hygiene exposure assessments.

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Colden will be exhibiting and presenting at the 47^th Annual SESHA Symposium! The symposium will begin on Monday, April 14th and conclude on Thursday, April 17th at the Omni Tempe Hotel in Tempe, AZ.

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In 2020, exposure to harmful substances or environments accounted for 4,830 cases of eye-related injury or illness cases that resulted in at least one day away from work.

Research estimates that eighty to eighty five percent of our perception, learning, cognition and activities are mediated through vision, (Politzer, 2008).  A team of neuroscientists from MIT has found that the human brain can process entire images that the eye sees in as little as 13 milliseconds — the first evidence of such rapid processing speed. (Trafton, 2014). An eye injury can have serious implications for employees including their ability to drive, watch a game, or effectively communicate.

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Open Opportunities:

• • Environmental Health and Safety Consultant – New England
  • Safety Specialist – Albany/Saratoga, New York
  • Industrial Hygiene and Safety Specialist – Albany, NY Area