What is the Industrial Hygiene Practice Specialty?
The industrial hygiene profession covers thousands of topics from asbestos to mold to exposure monitoring. The industrial hygiene profession is continually expanding, and it overlaps with safety, health and environmental (SH&E) and other professions. Many of you may be industrial hygienists and have seen your job expand to include SH&E, or just as likely, your position in SH&E may have expanded to include industrial hygiene. Whatever your path, a strong knowledge of industrial hygiene practices will make you a better leader and practitioner as well as a more marketable professional. One of our goals as a practice specialty is to identify, develop and disseminate technical information or a Body of Knowledge to our members and to the SH&E community. The Body of Knowledge also assists those who wish to become SH&E professionals. The Industrial Hygiene Practice Specialty (IHPS) is your resource for technical information on current industrial hygiene topics. If you are a Certified Industria
