William Steiger Memorial Award

The William Steiger Memorial Award honors individuals from the social/political sphere whose efforts have contributed to advancements in occupational safety and health. Roger Alesbury, MS, FFOH, CFIOSH is this year's Steiger Award recipient for making such contributions.

Mr. Alesbury is a founder director of The Occupational Hygiene Training Association (OHTA) and chairs its Leadership Group. OHTA is a non-profit voluntary organization providing global training and qualifications programs to protect worker health. An engineer by training, Mr. Alesbury spent most of his career working internationally as an Industrial Hygienist in the oil and chemical industries. For a decade prior to retirement, he was Director of Industrial Hygiene for BP.

Mr. Alesbury has a Master's degree in occupational hygiene from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and received the British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS) Diploma of Professional Competence in 1980. He is a Fellow of the Faculty of Occupational Hygiene, Chartered Fellow of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, a Past President of the Institute of Occupational Hygienists and Past President of BOHS.

Mr. Alesbury has served on numerous British, European and industry committees on a wide range of safety, health and environmental issues. He is presently a member of the Advisory Committee on Toxic Substances and the Council for Work and Health. He has published many articles and reviews on his main areas of interest relating to control of exposures from the work environment and building occupational hygiene capability in developing countries.

ACGIH^® is pleased to honor Mr. Alesbury as the recipient of this year's William Steiger Memorial Award. The Steiger Award will be presented at the ACGIH^® Membership Reception and Annual Meeting of the Membership on Sunday, May 15, 2011.

Previous Award Recipients

1979 — Congressman David R. Obey
1982 — George Taylor (AFL–CIO)
1983 — Edgar L. McGowan, Commissioner of Labor, South Carolina
1984 — Gershon W. Fishbein, Editor, Occupational Health and Safety Letter
1985 — Congressman Joseph M. Gaydos of Pennsylvania
1986 — William G. Philips
1987 — Sheldon Samuels, Director, Health, Safety and Environment, Industrial Union Department, AFL–CIO
1988 — Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia
1989 — Richard F. Boggs, Vice President of Organization Resources Counselors, Inc.
1990 — Joseph A. Kinney, Executive Director of The National Safe Workplace Institute
1991 — David P. Rall, MD, PhD, Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (1971–1990) and Director of the National Toxicology Program (1978–1990)
1992 — Molly J. Coye, MD, Director of the Department of Health Services of the State of California
1993 — J. Donald Millar, MD, DTPH (Lond.), the Assistant Surgeon General and Director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
1994 — Eula Bingham, PhD, Professor of Environmental Health; past Director of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration
1995 — Margaret Seminario, Director of Occupational Safety and Health for the AFL–CIO
1996 — James Merchant, MD of the University of Iowa, College of Medicine and Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa
1997 — J. Davitt McAteer, Assistant Secretary for the U.S. Labor Department's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) and Andrea M. Hricko, Deputy Assistant Secretary for MSHA
1998 — Linda Rae Murray, MD, MPH, Winfield Moody Health Center
1999 — Gerald F. Scannell, Director, National Safety Council; previously Director of the Office of Standards in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA
2000 — Phil Landrigan, MD, Mount Sinai Medical Center
2001 — James Melius, MD, DrPH
2002 — Congressman George Miller (D-CA) and Congressman Major R. Owens (D-NY)
2003 — Brian Davies, CIH
2004 — John Howard, MD, MPH, JD, LLM
2005 — Ernest Mastromatteo, CD, MD, DPH, DIH, FABPM (Occ Med), CCBOM, MFOM (London)
2006 — Charles E. Adkins, CIH
2007 — Earl Dotter, Photojournalist
2008 — John L. Henshaw, CIH, MPH
2009 — Rosemary Sokas, MD, MSc, MOH
2010 — Scott Schneider, CIH

2011 Awardee

Previous Award Recipients