Safety and Industrial Hygiene In the Laboratory

Abstract

THE past few decades have witnessed fundamental changes in the concept of a as well as a much wider appreciation of the role of the laboratory in our scientific, economic, and cultural life. Within the working lifetime of a farsighted man, to cite one example, an industrial research laboratory, such as the one founded by a chemistry professor, W. R. Whitney of the General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y., in 1900, has grown and progressed into one of the vital forces for scientific advancement in America today. Research and developmental laboratories have made contributions in every field of science, and they continue the search for better, more efficient, and more useful products to raise our national economy and standards of living. Some of these laboratories are relatively small, while several have many hundreds of employees with widely differing skills, training, and backgrounds—since no longer do we recognize the pencil marks once used to ...