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Course Learning Outcomes for Unit II
Upon completion of this unit, students should be able to:
3. Relate industrial hygiene practices to environmental health
and safety programs.
3.1 Describe how industrial hygiene practices relate to safety
programs.
3.2 Describe how industrial hygiene practices relate to
environmental programs.
Reading Assignment
To access the following resources, click the links below:
Anderson, A. L., & Ferrell, W. E. (2010). Assessment of
qualifications needed by environmental health
graduates entering private-sector employment. Journal of
Environmental Health, 72(9), 14-20.
Retrieved from
https://libraryresources.waldorf.edu/login?auth=CAS&url=http:/
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Minnick, W. D. (2013). Organizational reporting structure.
Professional Safety, 58(10), 56-62. Retrieved from
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Unit Lesson
The practice of industrial hygiene does not exist in a vacuum.
Most work locations must also attend to safety
and environmental issues. These three fields often overlap, both
in practice and in how they fit within a
facility’s organizational structure. How they fit will depend
greatly on the size of the company. Most small or
midsize companies do not typically have a full-time industrial
hygienist on staff; therefore, the safety officer or
environmental engineer may also be asked to manage the
facility’s industrial hygiene needs. This
arrangement will require the employee to know at least some
industrial hygiene basics. If a small facility is
part of a larger corporation, the corporate staff’s
responsibilities may include industrial hygiene services to its
remote facilities. Because the corporate industrial hygienist may
only visit the facility one or two times a year,
the safety officer or environmental engineer will be very
important in identifying and providing information to
the corporate industrial hygiene staff.
In some instances, workers’ compensation insurance carriers
may provide industrial hygiene services to
facilities covered under a policy. Under this arrangement, the
safety officer or environmental engineer
provides information to the insurance carrier’s representative
prior to an industrial hygiene survey. The third
alternative is for the facility to use an industrial hygiene
consulting company. This will also require substantial
input from the safety officer or environmental engineer.
Course/Unit
Learning Outcomes

Learning Activity
3.1
Unit II Lesson
Article: “Organizational reporting structure”
Unit II PowerPoint Presentation
3.2
Unit II Lesson
Article: “Assessment of qualifications needed by environmental
health graduates
entering private-sector employment”
Unit II PowerPoint Presentation
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Most small or midsize companies have an in-house safety
function. The need for a full-time safety staff at
these facilities is greater than for the industrial hygiene
industrial hygienist function because there is typically
a daily need to address safety concerns. However, because of
the issues discussed above about utilizing
outside industrial hygiene services, the in-house safety officer
should have at least some working knowledge
of the industrial hygiene field.
As with the safety function, small or
midsize companies will have an in-
house environmental function. Local
staffing for the environmental function at
a facility is important because
environmental issues occur frequently.
The environmental staff is less often
tasked with providing oversight of
industrial hygiene functions than the
safety staff, but some facilities will have
all three functions addressed by the
same in-house staff. When this is the
case, the three functions are often
combined into one department called
environmental, health, and safety
(EHS); safety, health, and environment
(SHE); or health, safety, and
environment (HSE).
The most common organizational
structure has the EHS function reporting

to either the human resources (HR)
department or the plant manager. In
rare instances, the safety function
reports directly to the production
manager. This organizational structure
is not recommended because it can lead to conflicts of interest
between the safety function and production.
Larger corporations will usually have an EHS staff that provides
services to remote facilities on an as-needed
basis, with annual facility visits to audit the quality of the EHS
programs. Many consulting firms will offer
industrial hygiene safety and environmental services, making it
easier to develop professional working
relationships between the two organizations.
While there are some differences between the three functions,
there are also some overlapping functions,
particularly between safety and industrial hygiene. The
industrial hygienist and safety functions work to
identify hazards, evaluate risks, and implement controls to
protect the health and safety of workers. The main
differences between the two functions involve the hazards they
address. The industrial hygienist function
primarily deals with health hazards, including chemical,
biological, and physical health hazards. The safety
function primarily addresses hazards that may cause traumatic
injury or death, including falls, explosions, and
electrical hazards. The environmental function deals with
hazards affecting the environment, including
releases to the air, water, and soil. However, many of the
hazards identified by one of the functions can also
have an effect on the other two. For example, a release of a
toxic gas would impact the health of workers in
the area but could also increase the risk of an explosion and
affect the environment outside the facility.

Another difference in the three functions is how practitioners
usually enter the field. Smaller facilities typically
choose someone with little safety education who is already
working at the facility to be a safety officer. This
employee may then enroll in courses to gain a broader
knowledge of the safety field. Some students enrolled
in the OSH program at Waldorf fit this category. It is
uncommon for an individual with no industrial hygiene
education who is working at a facility to become an industrial
hygienist or for an individual with no education in
environmental sciences to become the environmental engineer.
The requirements for certification by the
Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP) and the
American Board of Industrial Hygiene (ABIH) make
clear these differences.
To sit for the certified safety professional (CSP) examination,
the BCSP requires an associate’s degree in
safety, health, the environment or a related field, or a
bachelor’s degree in any field. In addition to the
An industrial hygiene technician checks for volatile organic
chemicals inside a
confined space prior to workers entering the space.
(U.S. Department of Energy, n.d.)
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educational requirements, the applicant must have at least four
years of experience (with safety being at least
50% at the professional level) and one of several qualifying

credentials (BCSP, n.d.).
The requirements to sit for the certified industrial hygiene
(CIH) examination are much more restrictive. The
applicant must have at least a four-year bachelor’s degree from
a regionally accredited college or university in
biology, physics, engineering, industrial hygiene, or safety,
with a specified number of hours in science, math,
engineering, or science-based technology. The applicant must
also have at least four years of professional
industrial hygiene practice and two written professional
references (ABIH, n.d.).
Upcoming units in this course will introduce you to the
concepts of industrial hygiene in a more detailed
manner. If you have experience in the safety function, you will
able to compare the basic principles of
industrial hygiene to your work in the safety field.
References
American Board of Industrial Hygiene. (n.d.). Eligibility for
certification. Retrieved from www.abih.org/become-
certified/eligibility
Board of Certified Safety Professionals. (n.d.). Safety
certifications at a glance. Retrieved from
http://www.bcsp.org/Certifications/Safety-Certifications-At-A-
Glance
U.S. Department of Energy. (n.d.). FEMP 03 712 [Photograph].
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Suggested Reading
To access the following resource(s), click the link(s) below:
This article discusses what employers expect from master’s
level industrial hygienist.
Brosseau, L. M., Raynor, P. C., & Lungu, C. (2005). Employers'
expectations of knowledge and skills of
master's- trained industrial hygienists. Journal of Occupational
and Environmental Hygiene, 2(1), 1-7.
Retrieved from
As the practitioners of industrial hygiene, safety, and the
environmental sciences age, it is important to recruit
a new generation of professionals. The following article
discusses ways to recruit high school students to the
safety field.
Jones, W. D. (2015). Recruiting future safety professionals:
How can we make safety appealing to high
school students? Professional Safety, 60(11), 22-24. Retrieved
from
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&site=ehost-live&scope=site
Some leading public health agencies developed a list of 10
essential services for public health. The following
article discusses these core competencies and lists job

classifications for the environmental professional and
basic education requirements.
Oestenstad, R. K., Maples, E. H., & McCullum-Hill, C. (2008).
The practice of the 10 essential services and
abilities in the 14 core competencies of Alabama environmental
health practitioners. Journal of
Environmental Health, 70(10), 32-38. Retrieved from
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Learning Activities (Nongraded)
Nongraded Learning Activities are provided to aid students in
their course of study. You do not have to
submit them. If you have questions, contact your instructor for
further guidance and information.
The American Board of Industrial Hygiene oversees the
certification of industrial hygienists (CIH). Go to
www.abih.org and review the requirements for sitting for the
CIH examination. The Board of Certified Safety
Professionals (BCSP) oversees the certification of safety
professionals. Go to www.bcsp.org and review the
requirements for sitting for the Associate Safety Professional
(ASP) and Certified Safety Professional (CSP)
examinations. The Institute of Hazardous Materials Management
oversees one of the more common
certifications for environmental professionals. Go to
www.ihmm.org and review the requirements to sit for the
Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM) examination.
http://www.abih.org/
http://www.bcsp.org/
http://www.ihmm.org/

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