Abstract
The practitioners of industrial hygiene have manifested little concern with the behavioral aspects of the worker. It is necessary that the hygienist understand the relationship of emotions to the observance of environmental precautions and the development of occupational disease and injury. With insight into interpersonal relationships, team members in occupational health can function more effectively and preclude the unnecessary drainage of the emotional economy of each member. Particularly, with the utilization of the hard-core unemployed in contemporary industry, it is necessary that the hygienist become aware of the different value systems, social mores, and behavior of persons unaccustomed to the group living at the worksite. Participation in environmental health activities in the community makes further demands for understanding of the worth of mental health in augmenting the growth of both the hygienist and the worker or community citizen for whom he has responsibility.