`Occupational hygiene in developing countries' has been on the agenda of conferences, symposia and scienti®c journals for more than two decades. The earliest reference I could trace in MEDLINE under this key term stems from a conference in East Germany (Elling, 1978) and the latest was the 1996 William P. Yant award lecture by Bernice Goelzer (Goelzer, 1996). Despite this, a look at recent volu...

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Occupational hygiene has been an important part of occupational health since it first emerged after World War II as the science and art that deals with the anticipation, recognition, evaluation and control of human exposures to hazards in the working environment. A need exists for well-qualified professionals who can not only respond to hazards that are currently known and understood, but also ...

This paper examines the role of occupational hygiene in the overall framework of occupational health. It draws attention to the unique combination of required individual science subjects, and to the way in which occupational hygiene science contributes to the practice of occupational hygiene in the real world. It focuses in particular on occupational exposure standards. The paper provides, as a...