Occupational and Environmental Hygiene is concerned with the protection of worker health through the prevention of occupational illness and injury. Industrial hygienists accomplish this goal through the recognition, evaluation, control and prevention of chemical, physical, biological, and psychosocial hazards in the work environment. The control of such hazards allows the worker to perform his/her job in a productive manner, free from the debilitating effects of work-related illnesses.
Our curriculum focuses on identification, assessment, and prevention of chemical, ergonomic, safety and other hazards to human health.
Graduates will be prepared in the initial diagnosis of exposure problems in the workplace and general environment, in the development of sampling and evaluation strategies to characterize the problem, in field collection and laboratory techniques to measure environmental exposures, and in the development and evaluation of environmental controls and innovative alternatives. A new aspect of our program is to train industrial hygienists to be involved in the design and implementation of more sustainable systems of production.
University of Massachusetts, Lowell (ABET-MS)
Dept. of Work Environment
One University Ave.
Lowell, MA 01854
http://www.uml.edu/dept/we
Michael Ellenbecker, ScD, CIH, Professor of Industrial Hygiene
(978) 934-3272
Ellenbec@turi.org
