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3 Welcome 4 President’s Column 5 CEO’s Column 6 Meet the Member - Adrian Sims 8 Annals of Work Exposures and Health: 2019 Performance and Activity 12 History of Occupational Hygiene - part 8 16 Something Smells in Here!

20 Do you want to write for Exposure? 22 Graticules and Chocolate: Stephen Beckett’s legacy

Welcome Happy (belated) New Year, and welcome to Exposure Magazine’s first issue of 2020!

We hope you had a very Merry Christmas and an even happier New Year, and have gotten off to a great start through January and February. January always manages to feel like a 6-week month as we settle back into work and start on those resolutions!

But now, on to the content of this fabulous 2020 kickstarter.

Inside this issue, Trevor Ogden delivers part 8 of his ‘History of British Occupational Hygiene’ series, where he delves into the problem of coal-worker pneumoconiosis, and how tackling this had a big effect on measurement methods for other particulates.

On page 8 is our yearly Annals of Work Exposures and Health Review, where Dr. Noah Seixas reports on the journal’s performance and activity during 2019. As he enters his last year as Chief Editor, Noah also penned a few words about his time leading the journal.

It is also with great sadness that we say goodbye to Steve Beckett in January, a key BOHS member in the 1970’s, co-designer of the Walton-Beckett microscope graticule for asbestos, and conductor of a number of studies which, led in the end, to the RICE scheme. On page 22, Trevor Ogden has written a touching obituary to celebrate and commemorate the tremendous work Steve did within the field of Occupational Hygiene. We wish his family all the best during this difficult time.

There’s a lot to be getting involved with this year, so if you have any questions or feedback for us, please get in touch at exposure@bohs.org.

We’ll see you next issue, where we’ll be talking all things OH2020, we anticipate we’ll see a lot of you there, and not just at the bar!

THE EXPOSURE TEAM

LEE BURKETT EVI KARMOU JOE MOTT

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