Retirement party for Steve Racich is Nov. 30

Steve Racich is retiring after 24 years at Western Washington University, and a party will be held in his honor from 2 to 4 p.m. in the fourth-floor skybridge of the Academic Instructional Center on campus.

The campus community is invited to enjoy refreshments and to wish Steve fair winds into retirement. Racich works as an industrial hygienist in Environmental Health and Safety. An industrial hygienist, by the way, anticipates, recognizes, evaluates, prevents and controls environmental factors or stresses arising in or from the workplace which may cause sickness, impaired health and wellbeing or significant discomfort among workers or among citizens of the community. Steve also developed and recommended measures for assuring personnel safety and assessed and monitored hazardous and unsafe situations.