As an occupational hygiene and safety major, you'll learn to anticipate, recognize, evaluate, and control workplace environmental factors that may affect the health, comfort, and productivity of the worker. The program also introduces you to policy issues critical to worker health and safety. With new technologies emerging every day, the industrial hygienist's job function grows increasingly valuable to the health and well being of workers, the community, and the environment. In this program, you'll learn about the following topics: Evaluation of chemical, biological, and physical hazards Ergonomics: the science of adapting working conditions to suit the worker Air quality: the evaluation and control of air pollutants Water quality: the evaluation and control of hazardous pollutants Indoor environmental air quality EPA and OSHA rules and regulations Nuclear and electromagnetic radiation Safe hazardous materials use and disposal Workplace environmental exposure levels Upon completion of the Industrial Hygiene program, you will be awarded a bachelor of science in occupational hygiene and safety, the only four-year program of its kind approved by the Ohio Board of Regents. The Ohio University program is one of very few American Board of Engineering and Technology-accredited undergraduate programs in the world. Utilizing strong links to Ohio's manufacturing and industrial base, the OU program is often fortunate to have an excess of paid internship opportunities for its students. While strongly recommended, internships are not presently a program requirement. However, OU graduates with internship experience typically do exceedingly well in the job market.The degree also prepares you for graduate study in industrial hygiene, public health or other environmental science-related disciplines.

Graduates work in industry, corporations, insurance companies, food establishments, research facilities and government agencies. Many fin employment in health-care setting, including hospitals public health departments, and environmental protection agencies. Still more options exist with public utilities, educational settings, natural resource departments, consulting firms and cruise ships.