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Workplace Health
Safety – usually
associated with acute injuries, short-term, traumatic exposures
Health – usually directed at chronic exposures, persistent, prolonged, repeated
Definition
Industrial Hygiene – "that science and art devoted to the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, 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, and inefficiency among workers or among the citizens of the community"
2014. American Society of Safety Engineers
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