A number of occupational and environmental safety and health professionals who’ve made extraordinary achievements in their sectors have received recognition lately:

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) engineer Lt. Michael Shahan was awarded the Green Medal at the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) Joint Engineers Training Conference on May 25. The Green Medal is named in honor of Rear Adm. Richard Stedman Green, U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS). The medal is presented for outstanding contribution to public health engineering and science by a USPHS officer. LT Shahan is an engineer in the NIOSH Pittsburgh Mining Research Division. (Photo at right shows RADM Edward Dieser, USPHS Chief Engineer Officer, presenting LT Shahan with the Green Medal at SAME.)