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 ...

Effective industrial hygiene management requires recording and maintaining consistent and complete work site data. Using outdated methods is in itself a serious risk. Industrial hygienists are ...

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) ...

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 ...

Are good leaders born, or are they made? Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary defines a leader as “a person who has commanding authority or influence.” I asked the president of the American Industrial ...

Occupational health, safety and wellbeing teams must work together to form truly multidisciplinary teams within an organisation. Understanding how and where occupational hygiene fits within this is a ...

Igor Burstyn, PhD, is an accomplished educator and researcher in the field of environmental and occupational health, with training in both epidemiology and occupational hygiene. His research primarily ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Background: N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF) was recently prioritised for field studies by the National Toxicology Program based on the potency of ...

Explore our campus, meet lecturers and current students, and learn more about what it's like to study at Manchester. The University holds regular open days, where you will have the opportunity to tour ...