The California OSHA Airborne Contaminant Advisory Committee reviewed several hundred substances and recommended occupational exposure limits with the intent of worker and employer protection. The model used offers important benefits. First, by allowing open meetings, the process was transparent, and input could be offered by concerned stakeholders. Second, the process was data-driven and, there...

Occupational risk assessment in school food services (SFS) should include factors related to occupational hygiene, physical–functional planning, worker health, and good meal production practices. This study aimed develop an instrument assess perform content validation semantic evaluation. The research included three steps: (i) instrument’s development; (ii) (Delphi); (iii) evaluation (focus gro...

personal samplers or in general blunt body samplers are widely used in occupational hygiene for collecting air contaminants in the work environments. this work is part of an ongoing research into the performance evaluation of personal samplers, particularly in terms of their aerodynamic properties. velocity profiles have been measured around and within typical cylindrical sampling devices, plac...

The concept of an Impact Factor was first proposed by Eugene Garfield in 1955. Since that time, the impact factor has risen to prominence in the scientific community, and is now being used as a measure of the quality of scientific journals. Journal editors have also recognized the importance that authors place on this matter, with some journals subsequently tailoring editorial strategies in an ...

Several new developments at the Annals of Occupa tional Hygiene (AOH) over the past year may be of interest to the readership. First, welcome to Ms Sarah Pyle as our new Editorial Manager. Sarah comes to the British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS) and AOH with experience working with an academic publisher in the past, and more recently with training in the law. Sarah takes over from Ms Roz ...