Any account of industrial health in the U.S.A. should start with Dr. Alice Hamilton.t The autobiography of this remarkable woman records not only the author's life-long devotion to the cause of the American industrial worker, but gives a picture of conditions in American industry which, when she first began her work, were a veritable jungle of ignorance, prejudice, and suspicion. But if Dr. Ham...

Industrial hygiene gas surveys play a key role in helping industrial hygienists evaluate and determine whether workers are being exposed to hazardous conditions within their workplace environment. Portable gas monitoring instruments can be a valuable tool used in these surveys to provide data that is vital to the success of the mission. In order to ensure the data collected from the instruments...

Spray application of polyurethane foam for thermal insulation of buildings represents the polyurethane application with the highest potential worker exposure to MDI. This paper reviews the existing work done to characterize the MDI exposures of the sprayed polyurethane foam workers as well as identifying several elements of an effective industrial hygiene program suggested by the existing work....

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...