Industrial Hygienists
As an Industrial Hygienist, your main responsibility is to protect the health of workers and the general public. You have the ability to recognize health hazards, test the environment for those hazards, determine if there is a risk to human health in a particular situation and recommend controls or means of protection from the recognized health hazard.
An Industrial Hygienist should be knowledgeable in all aspects of protection of the health of workers and the general public, especially with regard to local, state and federal EPA, RCRA, DHHS, CDC, OSHA and associated regulations. They should be actively involved with employee training requirements as it pertains to exposure, handling, storage, transport and response to hazardous substances and environments.