Rules and Guidelines to Facilitate Professional Judgments

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• Personal Author:
  Arnold S ; Stenzel M
• Description:
  Exposure assessments provide the basis for many of the decisions that industrial hygienists must make in the practice of their profession. Many of these exposure assessments (> 95%) must be made with no quantitative measurements because decisions must be made prior to the introduction of the agent into the workplace, or in the case of retrospective exposure assessments no opportunity exists to go back in time and collect measurement data. Some are hypothetical such as process hazard reviews, emergency planning or impact of process failures and upsets. Also in the case of illness clusters, it may not be known today that an agent has a specific ability to cause adverse health outcomes. The judgments must be timely. In many cases, a judgment is needed in minutes or hours rather than days that are usually needed to collect quantitative measurements. Finally, the collection of quantitative measurement is very costly and time consuming. A conscious decision must be made regarding the allocation of resources across all the requirements associated with maintaining a comprehensive industrial hygiene program. The quality exposure assessment program should be a balance between quantitative measurements, modeling and qualitative judgments that all compliment and reinforce each other. To support all the above decisions and determinations, a comprehensive exposure assessment strategy is needed such at the AIHA's(R) Exposure Assessment Strategy (the Strategy) that assesses all exposures, to all agents, for all workers. It is not usually that an IH must assess hundreds or even thousands of scenarios and that the scenarios can gradually change over time necessitating reassessments. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Decision Making Occupational Health Risk Assessment Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Decision Making Exposure Assessment Industrial Hygiene Programs Industrial Hygienists Risk Management Workplace Monitoring
• ISBN:
  9781935082460
• Publisher:
  American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Book
• Place as Subject:
  Minnesota ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  347-360
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20064139
• Citation:
  Strategy for assessing and managing occupational exposures, 4th edition. Jahn SD, Bullock WH, Ignacio JS eds. Falls Church, VA: American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA), 2015 Jan; :347-360
• Editor(s):
  Jahn SD; Bullock WH; Ignacio JS
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• Performing Organization:
  University of Minnesota Twin Cities
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Strategy for assessing and managing occupational exposures, 4th edition
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/222647/cdc_222647_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 1.04 MB ]