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Page 3245 1 Q Doctor, in the field of industrial hygiene,
2 is there a -- is there the equivalent of a code of
3 ethics or a code of professional responsibility?
4 A Yes, sir. It is kind of in limbo now,
5 because somebody is challenging it, so it has been put
6 on the stack.
7 I think it was Ken Cohen that tried to sue
8 somebody about it, so it has been put on the back
9 burner, and now there is one.
10 Q Well, it is true, is it not, that, in the
11 field of industrial hygiene, that if an industrial
12 hygienist does work or surveys a workplace and finds
13 that there is some danger or hazard in the workplace
14 to the workers, the industrial hygienist owes her or
15 his first loyalty to the workers, not to the
16 management, if the management says don't tell them?
17 A That is the appropriate thing to do, that is
18 true.
19 Q Now, Doctor, it is true, is it not, that for
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20 you at least, if you personally had been an industrial
21 hygienist back in the 1930s and '40s and '50s in an
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