IH Common Failure Mode Avoidance for Safety Professionals

摘要

In today's workplace paradigm of tight budgets and employer propensities toward requiring staff to "wear many hats," safety professionals may find themselves called upon to assume new Industrial Hygiene (IH) duties, or to monitor and manage the activities of contracted Industrial Hygienists. As such, these professionals are often times being asked to perform tasks of which they have little knowledge or experience. Truthfully, we all have to start somewhere any many of us have had the benefit of good mentoring to help us avoid errors in our work early in our IH careers; but those who do not have ready access to a mentor are potentially being set up for failure in assuming their new duties. They may be daunted by the knowledge that failure to maintain Industrial Hygiene data quality renders data useless and may actually bring harm to workers, to one's organization, and to one's professional reputation; and legitimately so. There are a wide variety of common industrial hygiene error pitfalls that one may fall prey to. By gaining an understanding of the nature of some of the most common IH errors and how to avoid them through virtual exploration (via this unique fast-paced "speed mentoring" primer on common IH failure modes, without having to suffer the consequences of empirical experiencing of these failure modes) interested safety professionals can rapidly further optimize their IH performance and minimize avoidable errors pending access to mentoring.