Have you met Greg, occupational hygienist with Environment, Health and Safety? Spend the next 2 minutes getting to know him a little better.
Where is your favorite place on campus?
CCIS. I had a meeting on the 7th floor, and you look down and get vertigo… but it’s got the dinosaur skeleton, and the design is really cool.
Tablet or paper?
Tablet — I carry my tablet everywhere.
Name one thing you’ve brought to work from home.
My yoga mat. We do yoga in the office about once a week.
What is the one thing you can’t live without?
Can I say my puppy? He changed my life.
(Pictured left: Charlie)
If you won airfare to anywhere in the world, where would you go?
Greece. It’s one of the only countries in Europe that I haven’t made it to yet.
You can invite anyone — alive or dead, real or fictional — to dinner. Who would it be?
Jerome Iginla. He’s been my hero since I was a kid.
If you could switch jobs with someone else on campus for a week, what would you do?
I think it would be cool to do research — maybe in nanoparticles or alternative energy.
What does “uplifting the whole people” mean to you?
Working in Health and Safety, for me it means protecting our students, staff, and the public — it means educating people on hazards. That’s how I see it.
If you could solve any problem in the world, what would it be?
Access to clean drinking water. There are a lot of places that don’t have the water quality that we get here in Edmonton.
What 3 words best describe your U of A experience?
Invigorating. Exciting. Unique.
Bonus question: what is an occupational hygienist?is an occupational hygienist?
Occupational hygiene is a subset of Health and Safety — we’re focused on the health side. So: any sort of chemical exposure, noise exposure, and getting into some mixed health and safety stuff, like confined spaces. As occupational hygienists we try to anticipate, recognize, evaluate, and control these hazards.
Greg Hodgson has been an occupational hygienist and safety professional for over 9 years. He holds a B.A.Sc in Environmental Science, and is both a Canadian Registered Safety Professional (CRSP) and Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH). He strives to protect worker health from both short-term and long-term exposures, including chemicals, noise, vibration, thermal stress, and any other workplace hazard.