Health physics or industrial hygiene

With the continuing addition to the list of substances exhibiting carcinogenicity, the working health physics individual is being increasingly faced with situations where knowledge of industrial hygiene practices is necessary to insure protection of workers under his control. The problems will continue to multiply as events such as decommissioning of entire facilities and the advent of new decontamination and radwaste processing methods introduces a variety of new substances to the inventory of hazardous materials present in the working environment. A variety of specific situations will be discussed illustrating scenarios where industrial hygiene protocols must be implemented to insure complete safety for workers