How Best to Define the Practice of Industrial Hygiene?

Almost as long as there has been a Cal-OSHA program, there has been friction between safety professionals and industrial hygienists. It is closely linked to who can command a higher salary. (Think of the relationship as similar to that between nurses and physicians.)To preserve their advantage, or in the interests of quality control, the IHs in 1996 petitioned the Standards Board to request that some definitions in General Industry 5155 for airborne contaminants be amended.The Calif