You don't have to be a certified industrial hygienist to do personal air sampling." That's what I've told hundreds of participants in introductory industrial hygiene courses I have taught since 1994.

Workplace hazards are abundant in scrap yards and at other scrap processing facilities. The field of industrial hygiene is centered on keeping workers safe by controlling workplace health hazards.

In part one of this series (May 2003), we explained the need for personal sampling, reviewed passive monitors and personal sampling pumps, and examined OSHA's substance-specific standards and their ...