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Science and art devoted to the
anticipation, recognition,
evaluation, prevention, and
control of those environmental
factors or stresses arising in or
from the workplace which may cause
sickness, impaired health and
well being, or significant
discomfort among
workers or among
citizens of the community.
An industrial hygienist is a
person with a college or
university degree or degrees
in
engineering,
chemistry,
physics,
medicine, or related physical
and biological sciences who, by
virtue of special studies and
training, has acquired
competence in industrial
hygiene. Such special studies and
training must have been sufficient
in all of the above cognate
sciences to provide the abilities
to anticipate and recognize
environmental factors and to
understand their effect on humans
and their well-being, to evaluate
on the basis of experience and
with the aid of quantitative
measurement techniques) the
magnitude of these stresses in
terms of ability to impair human
health and well-being, and to
prescribe methods to eliminate,
control, or reduce such stresses
when necessary to alleviate their
effects.
Source: American Industrial
Hygiene Association (AIHA)
