NIOSH: Puerto Rico townhall meeting transcript - Centers for ...

is a preoccupation we have and our board as
well has been evaluating this and it is the
following: the importance of having good
industrial hygienists able to analyze the
process and knowledge of developing good
strategies of sampling and evaluation of
qualitative and quantitative in the health area
of occupational health for the effective
protection of our workers. We have been
noticing that the university curriculum are
graduating students that go to the field to
jobs of industrial engineers and they really do
not have the knowledge that is required to be
able to execute this profession.
We should be giving them the necessary
tools so that these professionals of industrial
engineering can execute these strategies in an
effective manner. In a manner that they avoid
their employers and monetary penalties be
imposed. And not only that, but that they also
be the effective form so they can protect those
workers. In the case, you all know for
example, I worked with Puerto Rico OSHA, what
is now known as Puerto Rico OSHA since it was
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