An Investigative Approach to Industrial Hygiene: Sleuth at Work opens by outlining how the profession grew out of the need to combat the growing threats to health, particularly epidemics, brought on by rapid industrial progress. It discusses the economic, sociological, technological, and legal obstacles that slowed the development of effective industrial hygiene practices.

The 12 case studies read like mystery stories. In "The Fire Next Door," "No Sense of Danger," and "The Plastic Makers' Infirmity," you will see how a veteran industrial hygienist probes into the origins of workplace illness and, in each case, solves the problem. Along the way, your own growing investigative skills will be tested as you yourself look for telltale clues to each mystery.

The book concludes by spotlighting cosmetologists and firefighters - two professional groups with distinctively high exposure to health and safety hazards - and describes how they cope with their respective work-related dangers.

Uniquely engaging and informative, An Investigative Approach to Industrial HygieneSleuth at Work, will serve the diverse information needs of industrial hygienists, occupational physicians, nurses and other health practitioners, plant supervisors, employee relations managers, attorneys, and claims and insurance adjustors.