To avoid liabilities, industries with potential workplace hazards will often hire medical personnel and industrial hygienists to monitor employee health a safety. Two such employees at Boeing Corporation demonstrate their efforts to limit worker exp...
The job of the industrial hygienist is to monitor employee health and safety, devising preventive measures to keep workers from being exposed to chemical, physical, and biological hazards.
Nowhere are workplace hazards more evident than in the mining industry. The use of dynamite in the early days of mining and into the early 1900s made for extremely hazardous conditions. Technology introduced in the mid-1900s resulted in an epidemic ...