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Industrial Hygiene (IH) is the discipline of anticipating, recognizing, evaluating and controlling health hazards in the working environment with the objective of protecting worker health and well-being and safeguarding the community at large.
The risk of a health effect from a given stressor is a function of the hazard multiplied by the exposure to the individual or group.
Industrial hygienists are dealing with following health agents:
What is a Risk Assessment?
Process of evaluating the risks to workers safety and health from workplace hazards.
Systematic examination of all aspects of work that considers:
what could cause injury or harm
which hazards could be eliminated and, if not,
what preventive or protective measures should be in place to control the risks
Basis for successful safety and health management, the key to reducing occupational accidents and illnesses
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