industrial hygiene

industrial hygiene
industrial hygiene n a science concerned with the protection and improvement of the health and well-being of workers in their vocational environment
industrial hygienist n

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the branch of preventive medicine concerned with the protection of health of the industrial population.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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