Air quality in industrial environments has been studied since the second half of the 20th century. Well-documented results show that exposure to chemical pollutants through their consumption, production, and storage can damage workers' health. New research focusing on non-industrial environments has shown unexpected correlations between air quality and health effects. Artificial ventilation sys...

The International Symposium on Industrial Safety and Health (ISISH) is a biannual meeting collaboratively organized by the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Japan (JNIOSH) and some foreign institutes that have a research cooperative agreement with JNIOSH; its objective is to thoroughly discuss and exchange views on the lat-est trends and topics in the field of occupational safety and...

The purpose of this article is to provide the author's perspective on whether it is likely or feasible that those working in the health care domain will adapt and use lessons learned by those in the industrial domain. This article provides some historical perspective on the changes brought about in the industrial domain through the introduction of new technologies, including information technol...

Zoning, the most prevalent land use planning tool in the United States, has substantial equity and public health implications. Zoning determines where various categories of land use may go, thereby influencing the location of resulting environmental and health impacts. Industrially zoned areas permit noxious land uses and typically carry higher environmental burdens than other areas. Using NewY...

Radical thinking about the design of industrial processes over the last century has greatly improved the quality and efficiency of manufacturing and services. Similar methods to deliver higher quality health care at lower cost would be extremely valuable. In health care, however, we must also consider how patients feel about the processes and the extent to which they are able to exercise meanin...

Center for Management of Occupational Injury and Disease, National Taiwan University Hospital, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, National Taiwan University Hospital, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, ChaoYang University of Technology, Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Council of Labor Affairs and Institute of Occupational Medicine and Industrial H...

Occupational health-or "industrial hygiene", as it was known in the early. twentieth century-has hardly figured in most accounts of the workplace. Business historians are mostly management oriented; medical and social historians have yet to give the subject the attention it deserves. Christopher Sellers' book is therefore particularly welcome. It traces the history of industrial hygiene in Amer...