Introduction to Industrial Hygiene

It is rare for employers outside a few industries (such as the petrochemical industry) to have a credentialed industrial hygienist on staff. Therefore, industrial hygiene responsibilities tend to fall to individuals whose expertise is in some other area of regulatory compliance, like the safety engineer, the human resources manager, or the environmental manager. These individuals are often tasked with addressing industrial hygiene issues that they lack the educational background to understand or effectively resolve.This book provides a one-volume introduction to occupational health, and to the goals and methods of industrial hygiene. It is allows the reader to easily grasp basic industrial hygiene principles, to assess and control common occupational health hazards, to achieve and document compliance with occupational health regulations and consensus standards, and to recognize when an issue has gone beyond their ability to address it in-house and requires the services of a consulting industrial hygienist.Chapter covered include: Introduction to Industrial Hygiene Principles; Standards of Practice; Introduction to Chemical Hazards; Recognizing Chemical Hazards; Evaluating Chemical Hazards; Controlling Chemical Hazards; Introduction to Biological Hazards; Bloodborne Pathogens; Airborne Infectious Diseases; Occupational Noise; Thermal Stress; Non-Ionizing Radiation; Ionizing Radiation; Ergonomics