Historical Occupational Hygiene Articles and Graphics
These were collected from archives around the world, mostly over 100 years old.
On my sabbatical in 1992 I was fortunate to spend time in
the archives of the University of Michigan library – home of the School of Public Health and a birthplace of Industrial Hygiene in the US and the UK Health and Safety Executive archives (then in the Health and Safety Laboratories at Sheffield). Here were bound copies of the factory inspectorate dating back over 100 years.
After experimenting with a flatbed scanner (too slow), I took many thousands of photographs of pages of old occupational/industrial hygiene journals and reports with a 3 Mpx Nikon 980 camera. Every 600, I would burn a CD. The advantages of using a camera besides speed, was they it was gentle on these old documents and did not damage the spine like a flatbed scanner would.
I was surprised at the number of defunct journals and the quality of the UK factory inspectors work, particularly the Women’s’ Inspectorate.
My collection eventually be a huge archive of down-loadable images and PDF files.
