- Acronym
- Finder
- Kathy Hall
Senior Editor
- Acronym finder
- These are some abbreviations most widely used in the UW Department of Environmental & Occupatonal Health Sciences. A more general acronym finder is online at http://www.AcronymFinder.com/ The Association of Engineering Geologists has compiled a Compendium of Environmental Acronyms.
- |A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M|N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z|
A - AIHA - American Industrial Hygiene Association
- ATSDR - Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry
B - BBDR - Biologically based dose response modeling
C - CADR - clean air delivery rate
- CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- CEEH - UW NIEHS Center for Ecogenetics and Environmental Health
- CFR - Code of Federal Regulations
- CHC - UW Center for Child Environmental Health Risks Research or Child Health Center for short
- CO - carbon monoxide
- CO2 - carbon dioxide
- COEP - Community Outreach and Education Program, part of the UW NIEHS Center for Ecogenetics and Environmental Health
- COPD - chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- CRESP - Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation
D - Department - Preferred second reference (over DEOHS) for Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington
- DNA - Deoxyribonucleic Acid
- DOE - Please differentiate between the federal Department of Energy and the Washington state Department of Ecology (US DOE, Ecology)
E - EPA - US Environmental Protection Agency
F - FDA - US Food and Drug Administration
- FIFRA - Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
- FQPA - Food Quality Protection Act
- FRCG - Field Research and Consultation Group
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G - GIS - Geographic Information System
H - HERE - Please differentiate between the CEEH Health and Environmental Resources for Educators (HERE@UW) and the Health Education Resource Exchange (HERE in Washington)
- HPAP - Health Policy Analysis Program of the Health Services department of the UW School of Public Health and Community Medicine
I - IAIA - Indoor Air Investigators' Association
- IARC - International Agency for Research on Cancer
- IH&S - Industrial Hygiene and Safety program of the UW DEH
- IRARC - Institute for Risk Analysis and Risk Communication
- IRIS - Integrated Risk Information System
- ISEA - International Society of Exposure Analysis
- ITC - Interagency Testing Committee
L - L&I - Washington state Department of Labor and Industries
- LIDAR - Light Detection and Ranging
M - MA/AF - Medical Aid and Accident Funds
N - NAAQS - National Ambient Air Quality Standards
- NAS - National Academy of Sciences
- NCEA - National Center for Environmental Assessment (EPA/ORD)
- NCER - National Center for Environmental Research (EPA/ORD)
- NCEH - National Center for Environmental Health (CDC)
- NCHS - National Center for Health Statistics (CDC)
- NCI - National Cancer Institute
- NHEXAS - National Human Exposure Assessment Survey
- NIAID - National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease
- NIEHS - National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
- NIH - National Institutes of Health
- NIOSH - National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
- NO2 - nitrogen dioxide
- NORA - National Occupational Research Agenda
- NTP - National Toxicology Program
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- OEMP - Occupational & Environmental Medicine Program, a joint program between the UW DEH and School of Medicine
- ORD - Office of Rare Diseases (National Institutes of Health) or Office of Research and Development
- OSHA - Occupational Safety and Health Administration
P - PAH - polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon
- PANWAT - Pacific Northwest Association of Toxicologists
- PCB - Polychlorinated biphenyl
- PM - Particulate matter
- PM2.5 - Particulate matter less than 2.5 µm in diameter
- PM10 - Particulate matter less than 10 µm in diameter
- PNASH - Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center
- PSAPCA - Former name of the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency
R - RfC - Reference concentration
- RfD - Reference dose
S - SDWA - Safe Drinking Water Act
- SHARP - Safety and Health Assessment and Research for Prevention program of the Washington state Department of Labor and Industries
- SOT - Society of Toxicology
- SPHCM - UW School of Public Health and Community Medicine
- SVOC - semivolatile organic chemical
T - TSCA - Toxic Substances Control Act
U - UW - University of Washington
V - VOC - volatile organic compound
W - WISHA - Washington Industrial Safety and Health Act
- WMSDs - work-related musculoskeletal disorders
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Page updated April 21, 2003 by Kathy Hall
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