Occupational Hygiene

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

British occupational hygiene practice 1720-1920.

The first recognition of the profession of occupational hygienist was preceded by at least 200 years of developments in disease prevention practices in the workplace, many of which could readily be characterized as occupational hygiene. The nature and pace of adoption of these practices depended on the contemporary state of technology, science, medicine and social concern. At first it was a mat...

Invited Editorial European Chemical Regulation and Occupational Hygiene

Occupational hygienists and other health scientists should have little problem in accepting that approaches to the management of risk should be based on soundly constructed principles of risk assessment. Such thinking permeates many aspects of occupational health practice and is reflected in supporting legal frameworks, for example the Chemical Agents Directive (EC, 1998) and UK Control of Subs...