The Industrial Hygiene Program in Industry

The Quality Control Program for Industrial Hygiene Laboratories in Korea

In 1992, the quality control program was introduced in Republic of Korea to improve the reliability of the work environment monitoring, which was introduced in the 1980s. The commission entrusted by the Ministry of Employment and Labor, the Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute has conducted the program for industrial hygiene laboratories including designated monitoring institutions...

An effective hygiene program in the construction industry.

Designing an international industrial hygiene database of exposures among workers in the asphalt industry.

OBJECTIVES The objective of this project was to construct a database of exposure measurements which would be used to retrospectively assess the intensity of various exposures in an epidemiological study of cancer risk among asphalt workers. METHODS The database was developed as a stand-alone Microsoft Access 2.0 application, which could work in each of the national centres. Exposure data incl...

Industrial hygiene, occupational safety and respiratory symptoms in the Pakistani cotton industry

OBJECTIVES In the cotton industry of Pakistan, 15 million people are employed and exposed to cotton dust, toxic chemicals, noise and physical hazards. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of health symptoms, particularly respiratory symptoms, and to measure cotton dust and endotoxin levels in different textile factories of Faisalabad, Pakistan. METHODS A cross-sectional inves...

Industrial Hygiene and Medicine

A text-book on this subject has been long overdue and the authors are to be congratulated on the production of such an interesting and readable volume which contains much important work hitherto accessible to the student only in scattered writings. The book includes admirable descriptions of modern industrial processes, viz., mining, iron and steel working, textile industries, potteries and gla...