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Seizing on Seattle
The year’s biggest U.S industrial hygiene show, AIHce EXP docks in the Emerald City next month.
BY JERRY LAWS
The Washington State Convention Center is “in the heart of downtown Seattle’s vibrant retail and entertainment core,” the center’s website informs visitors, and that’s good news for safety and health professionals attending the 2017 American Industrial Hygiene Conference & Exposition early next month.
Co-sponsored by the American Industrial Hy- giene Association and the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, AIHce 2017 is set for June 2-8 and will take place at the conven- tion center a few blocks from the famed Pike Place Market and Pioneer Square’s attractions. China- town is a bit farther south and to the north are the Space Needle and Chihuly Garden and Glass.
Visit Seattle’s blog featured a January 2017 roundup of the best urban adventures that Se- attle has to offer, written by Corinne Edmiston. Her list included the aforementioned attrac- tions—you’ll find Starbucks’ first store at Pike Place Market, she pointed out—as well as Seat- tle’s museums, the region’s green spaces and hik- ing and biking opportunities, locally caught sea- food, and Elliott Bay Book Company in the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood and other “amazing” bookstores. She described Seattle as a destination that appeals to almost anyone.
Visitors may want to use the Washington State Ferries (www.wsdot.wa.gov/ferries/) to travel from the Seattle waterfront to Bainbridge Island (35 min- utes one way) and other stops. Some of the routes offer great views of the Seattle skyline and harbor, for visitors with time enough for sightseeing.
Seattle is Washington State’s largest city, with about 685,000 residents as of 2015, and the city and King County welcome about 19 million visitors an- nually, according to Visit Seattle. The city’s average high and low daily temperatures in June are 69.2 degrees and 51.4 degrees Fahrenheit, respectively.
Educational Program
Highlights and Keynotes
This brings us to AIHce 2017, this year’s biggest U.S. industrial hygiene conference. More than 3,500 industry professionals are expected to at-
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