The roots of industrial hygiene can be traced back thousands of years. In ancient Rome, scholar Pliny the Elder advised miners to wear face masks, or PPE, made from animal bladders, to protect them ...

Industrial hygiene controls often fail in lone worker environments where supervision and monitoring are limited.

Responding to the U.S. fire service’s growing awareness of the potential health effects from occupational exposure to hazardous contaminants on the fireground, personal protective equipment (PPE) ...

The pandemic emphasised the value of both occupational health and occupational hygiene as never before. There is now a real opportunity for the two professions to come together to share knowledge and ...

The processes for establishing voluntary occupational exposure limits (OELs) by nonprofit organizations have been legally and scientifically challenged recently. This follows a long history of legal ...

The joint TUC/British Occupational Hygiene Society publication Occupational hygiene explained – A guide for union health and safety representatives provides an overview of occupational hygiene.

Given the title of this article, have I entered into the snarky world of blasphemy? OK, a little background. I have been involved with industrial hygiene (IH) and a member of the American Industrial ...

CRANE, Ind. - Crane Army Ammunition Activity improved its industrial hygiene office this summer in an effort to strengthen its safety conditions and improve the quality of the workplace for its ...

Explore our campus, meet lecturers and current students, and learn more about what it's like to study at Manchester. Contemporary occupational health and safety practice requires practitioners to be ...