Agriculture Hygiene

Abstract

This chapter aims to address the information needs and to encourage the interests of industrial hygienists to apply their skills and knowledge to the population of workers employed in the industrial sectors of agriculture, forestry, and fishing (AFF). Worker health and safety efforts in these three sectors are often lumped together under the category of agricultural health and safety or AFF workers as defined by NIOSH. Other agricultural health and safety reviews have been aimed at health professionals or a more general industrial health and safety professional audience. Herein, we bring the essentials of this subject to an Industrial Hygiene audience, as compared to a general health and safety audience. In order to assist the reader, we organized the sections by the hygienist's paradigm – anticipation, recognition, evaluation, and control. We also discuss how the information provided might be applied to potential policies to stimulate industrial hygiene and safety activity in AFF sectors.