Applying the IH Value Strategy

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• Personal Author:
  Biddle, Elyce A. ; Brandt MT
• Description:
  Commercial business, government, and industrial organizations are under increasing pressure to be cost effective and efficient, particularly with a weakened economy and competitive global markets. In this environment, industrial hygienists are expected to present a balanced picture of the relationship between potential workplace health risks and the costs and benefits of mitigating those risks. To satisfy this new expectation and gain support for health protection, the industrial hygienist will benefit by developing a persuasive value proposition - that protecting worker health creates a competitive advantage for an enterprise by mitigating potential health hazards with effective and efficient solutions. This strategy will foster a perception of industrial hygienists as important partners with business executives in managing enterprise risks. Effective risk management, coupled with business case analysis of solutions for executive decision making, will increasingly represent the collective competitive advantage of our profession. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Risk Assessment Safety
• Keywords:
  Industrial-hygiene Industrial-hygienists Injury-prevention Risk-analysis Surveillance
• ISSN:
  1066-7660
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  36-39
• Volume:
  19
• Issue:
  10
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20034738
• Citation:
  Synergist 2008 Jan; 19(10):36-39
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2008
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  The Synergist
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:0b81c941d6e7d4bf83e108233eccf6e2222daaa52a2e8380eb643530e057def7c05936ce16dc5f16c1c78562afa6d65df83de953c7e266f1c227b60bdea79729
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/186836/cdc_186836_DS1.pdf
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