The British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS) has announced that its influential publication, the Annals of Occupational Hygiene, is celebrating its 60th volume at the beginning of 2016.
The Annals is one of the world’s leading, peer-reviewed scientific research journals in the field of recognising, quantifying, removing or controlling hazards and risks to health from work. BOHS and its publication are unique in their key focus on occupational hygiene i.e. the scientific discipline that protects people against the wide range of health risks that can arise from exposures at work. To influence standards of exposure and control remains central to the aims of BOHS and the Annals, and to this end, the Annals publishes original articles that explore:
For more than 50 years, the Annals has published research that focuses on not only improved control of workplace exposures, but control which is better focused on the causes of the disease – and is therefore more cost-effective. Specific and influential research has included:
Chief Editor of the Annals, Professor Noah Seixas, reflects on the milestone of the 60th volume: “Almost ten years ago, my predecessor, Trevor Ogden, wrote his ‘tour de force’ review of the first fifty volumes of the Annals, and in fact of of the history of occupational hygiene sciences (Ogden 2006), which I highly recommend to those interested in understanding the changes in our field, and in scientific publishing over the past several decades. Over the decade, in volumes 50 – 59, we’ve published almost 900 articles, including original research, reviews, commentaries and editorials on the subject of occupational hygiene. Our journal impact factor (JIF) has steadily risen from just over one in 2005, to better than two over the past several years.”
