NIOSH Director Howard forecasts the future of industrial hygiene
In a presentation at this spring’s AIHce 2014 national meeting in San Antonio, NIOSH Director John Howard, MD, MPH, JD, LLM, predicted how the health effects of emerging manufacturing technologies and technological innovations in sampling practices will change the
IH profession over the next 75 years.
According to Howard, new manufacturing technologies such as 3-D printing, which shapes objects and builds machines by adding layers of material, will bring about a new industrial revolution and could result in changes for IHs and their work.