Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene

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

The Role of Hormesis in Industrial Hygiene/occupational Health

Jayjock and Lewis’ study “Implication of Hormesisfor Industrial Hygiene” represents a challenge for thescientific community to consider hormesis as a possibleworking hypothesis for redefining risk assessmentstrategy for low-dose exposures in the realm of IndustrialHygiene. This invited commentary aims at examiningsome aspects of the study for which no proven andconcl...

Occupational and industrial health at the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene.

Occupational hazards have been known for centuries, but the creation of facilities capable of carrying out the testing necessary to assess these risks is a comparatively recent development. The Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene (WSLH) created the Wisconsin Occupational Health Laboratory (WOHL) in 1937 to address this need. Since then, WOHL's range of analytical capacity has grown to include...

Institute of Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Diseases Problems of Industrial Toxicology