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The practice of industrial hygiene is still well‐rooted in the principles that evolved from the earliest days of the profession. Today it is well known that a well‐implemented comprehensive industrial hygiene program leads to a healthful workplace and that “good health is good business.”

The current practice of industrial hygiene relies on having valid data, on proper judgment in evaluating these data, and effective follow‐through. Exposure assessment techniques utilizing historical as well as contemporaneous and/or analogous sampling data have become critical tools in the practice of industrial hygiene. Enormous strides have been made during the past century in characterizing and controlling environmental health hazards in places of work. In many industrial plants where comprehensive industrial hygiene programs are in effect and exposures to work hazards are well controlled, the off‐the‐job risk factors such as smoking, alcohol consumption, drug use, and hobby activities may have a greater negative effect on workers' health than do their on‐the‐job stresses or may increase the effects or risks associated with workplace exposures alone.