Fred W. Boelter, CIH, PE, BCEE, FAIHA, RHP Risk Management Inc., Boise, ID, USA
Garrett Brown, California Department of Public Health, Sacramento, CA, USA
William D. Cyrs, MS, CIH, Tesla, Fremont, CA, USA
Barbara J. Dawson, MS, CIH, CSP, FAIHA, DuPont, Wilmington, DE, USA
Kyle B. Dotson, CIH, CSP, BCEE, DOTSON Group, LLC., Carmel, CA, USA
Marion J. Fedoruk, MD, CIH, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
David Fishwick, MD, Department of Infection, Immunity & Cardiovascular Disease, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Faye Grimsley, Ph.D., CIH, MSPH, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA, USA
Thomas Grumbles, CIH, FAIHA, Cypress, TX, USA
Philip Harber, MD, MPH, University of Arizona, Arizona, AZ, USA
Frank Hearl, MS, PE, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Washington, DC, USA
John Howard, MD, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Washington, DC, USA
Michael Jayjock, CIH, Ph.D., Jayjock Associates, LLC, Langhorne, PA, USA
Mark Katchen, California Department of Public Health, Sacramento, CA, USA
Chris Laszcz‐Davis, MS, CIH, COH, FAIHA, AIC Fellow, The Environmental Quality Organization, LLC, Lafayette, CA, USA
Robert G. Lieckfield, Jr., CIH, FAIHA, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Brian Linde, MD, MPH, Department of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Perry Logan, Ph.D., CIH, Corporate Safety & Health, 3M Environment, Health, Safety and Product Stewardship 3M Center, St. Paul, MN, USA
Max Lum, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Washington, DC, USA
Bruce Lyon, PE, CSP, SMS, ARM, CHMM, Hays Companies, Inc., Kansas City, MO, USA
Zack Mansdorf, Ph.D., CIH, CSP, QEP, FAIHA, Sustainability Consultants, Boca Raton, FL, USA
Cristina Ford McLaughlin, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, College Park, MD, USA
Franklin E. Mirer, Ph.D., CIH, CUNY School of Public Health, Environmental, Occupational and Geospatial Health Sciences, New York, NY, USA
Rosemary L. Nixon, BSc (Hons), MBBS, MPH, FACD, FAFOEM, Occupational Dermatology Research and Education Centre, Skin Health Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Mary V. O'Reilly, Ph.D., CIH, CPE, FAIHA, School of Public Health, University at Albany (SUNY), Workplace Health Without Borders and ARLS Consultants, Inc., Manlius, NY, USA
Dennis J. Paustenbach, Ph.D., CIH, DABT, Tesla, Fremont, CA, USA
Thomas M. Peters, Ph.D., CIH, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Georgi Popov, Ph.D., QEP, CSP, ARM, SMS, CMC, FAIHA, Safety Sciences, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO, USA
Tsvetan Popov, Ph.D., CIH, CSP, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO, USA
R. Thomas Radcliffe Jr., Esquire, JD, DeHay & Elliston, LLP, Baltimore, MD, USA
Peter C. Raynor, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Charles F. Redinger, Ph.D., MPA, CIH, Institute for Advanced Risk Management, Harvard, MA, USA
Carrie A. Redlich, MD, MPH, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA; Department of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Parker C. Reist, ScD, PE, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
David Roskelley, MSPH, CIH, CSP, FAIHA, R&R Environmental Inc., Sandy, UT, USA
Jennifer Sahmel, MPH, CIH, CSP, FAIHA, Insight Exposure and Risk Sciences Inc., Boulder, CO, USA
Mark Stenzel, MS, CIH, FAIHA, Exposure Assessment Applications, LLC, Arlington, VA, USA
Nina Townsend, California Department of Public Health, Richmond, CA, USA
Noel Tresider, AM FAIOH, Petroch Services Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Candace Tsai, ScD, CIH, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
David M. Zalk, Ph.D., CIH, School of Public Health, GPOHP, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; ES&H Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA
Yifang Zhu, Ph.D., Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
PREFACE
Industrial hygiene is an applied science and a profession. Like other applied sciences such as medicine and engineering, it is founded on basic sciences such as biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics. In a sense it is a hybrid profession because within its ranks are members of other professions – chemists, engineers, biologists, physicists, physicians, nurses, and lawyers. In their professional practice all are dedicated in one way or another to the purposes of industrial hygiene: the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, and control of work‐related health hazards. The contributors to these volumes come from these professions.
Although the term “industrial hygiene” used to describe our profession is probably of twentieth century origin, we must go further back in history for the origin of its words. The word “industry,” which has a dictionary meaning, “systematic labor for some useful purpose or the creation of something of value,” has its English origin in the fifteenth century. For “hygiene,” we must look even earlier. Hygieia, a daughter of Asclepius who is god of medicine in Greek mythology, was responsible for the preservation of health and prevention of disease. Thus, Hygieia, when she was dealing with people who were engaged in systematic labor for some useful purpose, was practicing our profession, industrial hygiene.
Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology was originated by Frank A. Patty with publication of the first single volume in 1948. In 1958, an updated and expanded second edition was published with his guidance. A second volume, Toxicology, was published in 1963. Frank Patty was a pioneer in industrial hygiene; he was a teacher, practitioner, and manager. In 1946, he served as the eighth president of the American Industrial Hygiene Association. To cap his professional career, he served as director of the Division of Industrial Hygiene for the General Motors Corporation.
At the request of Frank Patty, George and Florence Clayton took over editorship of the ever‐expanding Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology series for the Third Edition of Volume I, General Principles, published in 1978, and Volume II, Toxicology, published in 1981–1982. The First Edition of Volume III, Theory and Rationale of Industrial Hygiene Practice, edited by Lewis and Lester Cralley, was published in 1979, with its second edition published in 1984. The ten‐book, Fourth Edition of Patty's Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology, edited by George and Florence Clayton, was published in 1991–1994, and the Third Edition of Volume III, Theory and Rationale of Industrial Hygiene Practice, edited by Robert Harris, Lewis Cralley, and Lester Cralley, was published in 1994. With the agreement and support of George and Florence Clayton, and Lewis and Lester Cralley, Robert Harris edited the fifth edition of Patty's Industrial