Engineering controls

Engineering controls are strategies designed to protect workers by removing hazardous conditions or by placing a barrier between the worker and the hazard.[1]

Three basic strategies are: substitution, isolation, and ventilation.[2]

References

  1. "CDC - NIOSH Directory of Engineering Controls". www.cdc.gov. Retrieved 2016-06-13.
  2. Cora Roelofs (1 January 2007). Preventing Hazards at the Source. AIHA. pp. 9–. ISBN 978-1-931504-83-6.

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