Role of industrial hygiene in medical surveillance.
The industrial hygienist and the occupational physician comprise a team that can effectively recognize and evaluate employee exposures to workplace-generated contaminants. At the most basic level, the industrial hygienist performs the exposure assessment, and the occupational physician develops the medical surveillance program. The actual mechanisms for assessing employee exposures and ultimately implementing a medical surveillance program are complex and are detailed in this paper.
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United Airlines Maintenance Operations Center, San Francisco International Airport, California 94128.
D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016273:Occupational Exposure