ANNALS OF OCCUPATIONAL HYGIENE

New developments at the Annals of Occupational Hygiene.

Several new developments at the Annals of Occupa tional Hygiene (AOH) over the past year may be of interest to the readership. First, welcome to Ms Sarah Pyle as our new Editorial Manager. Sarah comes to the British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS) and AOH with experience working with an academic publisher in the past, and more recently with training in the law. Sarah takes over from Ms Roz ...

Annals of Occupational Hygiene at volume 50: many achievements, a few mistakes, and an interesting future.

The past 10 years have seen a doubling of the number of papers submitted to the Annals, and a 5-fold increase in the number of institutions with access to the journal. Electronic access is now far more important than print access. Papers from British authors dominated the first 20 years of the journal, but the rest of Europe is now more important, with Scandinavia and The Netherlands being the ...

Occupational hygiene in Africa.

In an editorial 6 years ago, Hans Kromhout (1999) commented on the scarcity of occupational hygiene publications, which took into account developing countries, and looked forward to the 4th International Occupational Hygiene Association (IOHA) Conference in Cairns, where their problems were to be a major theme. In September 2005, the 6th IOHA Conference became the first IOHA Conference to be he...

Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene

Occupational Health Research at NIOSH The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is the U.S. federal agency that conducts research and makes recommendations for preventing work-related injuries, illnesses, and deaths.1 The work by NIOSH protects the safety and health of the nation’s 155 million workers.2 NIOSH provides the only dedicated federal investment for research ne...

Occupational Medicine and Industrial Hygiene