NEW YORK ASBESTOS ABATEMENT REGULATIONS

Industrial hygiene. "Industrial hygiene" shall mean that science and art devoted to the recognition, evaluation and control of those environmental factors or stresses, arising in or from the work place, which may cause sickness, impaired health and well being, or significant discomfort and inefficiency among workers or among the citizens of the community.

Industrial hygienist. "Industrial hygienist" shall mean an individual having a college or university degree or degrees in engineering, chemistry, physics, or medicine or related biological sciences who, by virtue of special studies and training, has acquired competence in industrial hygiene. Such special studies and training must have been sufficient in all of the above cognate sciences to provide the abilities:

To recognize the environmental factors and to understand their effect on people and their well being; and

To evaluate, on the basis of experience and with the aid of quantitative measurement techniques, the magnitude of these stresses in terms of ability to impair people's health and well being; and

To prescribe methods to eliminate, control or reduce such stresses when necessary to alleviate their effects.