American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists ACGIH 4
American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists ACGIH 4 : An organization open to all practitioners in industrial hygiene, occupational health, environmental health, or safety. Their web site is?http: //www.acgih.org/. Industrial hygiene?deals with the protection of the health of those involved in industry. This classifies it as a form of preventative medicine. Additional Info: ACGIH publishes over 400 titles in occupational and environmental health and safety. They are most famous for their?Threshold Limit Valuespublication which lists the TLV's? for over 700?chemical?substances and physical agents, as well as 50 Biological Exposure Indices (BEI's?) for selected chemicals. There was considerable controversy concerning the regulatory implications of TLV's, and the ACGIH was sued by a manufacturer's association in December 2000. See: The links below for more information
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