Undergraduate student winner: “Characterizing the Potential
Use of ANSI Class Z87.1 Safety Glasses for the Attenuation of UV Excimer Laser
Exposure,” by Tina Wells, Maika Lee, Burton Ogle, Tracey Zontek, Western
Carolina University, Scott Hollenbeck and John Jankovi.
Graduate student winner: “Determining the Effective Exposure
Control Measures to Safety & Health Hazards in the Offshore Oil & Gas
Operations,” by Ana Ramirez, Najmeh Vaez, Maria Ricardo-Roca, Yi Wang and Magdy
Akladios, University of Houston-Clear Lake, Houston, TX. This paper focused on
identifying and evaluating safety and health hazards in the offshore oil and
gas industry, and to introduce different effective engineering, administrative
and/or PPE control measures to prevent or mitigate the consequences of safety
and health hazards on personnel.
Other (including faculty and government): “Lost-Time
Injuries—Predicting & Reducing Their Occurance,” by Katherine E. Schofield Larson,
Bruce H. Alexander, Susan Goodwin Gerberich, Richard MacLehose and Andrew D. Ryan, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University
of Minnesota. This study aimed to determine the association between minor
injury experience and risk of lost-time injury.
Top video entry winner: “Developing 24-Hour Noise Exposure Profiles & Determination of Shipboard Task Contributions to Overall Noise Dose,” by Gary A. Morris, Commander Jennifer Rous, Commander Michael Stevens,
and student authors Justin Bryant, Amanda Dean and Carrie Stindt of Murray
State University. This paper was a federal funded grant to determine 24-hour
noise dose exposure to sailors working aboard naval aircraft carriers.
