[2][3] Corporate medical directors are typically occupational medicine physicians who often have specialized training in the hazards relevant to their industry.
[3] OEM physicians are employed by the US military in light of the significant and unique exposures faced by this population of workers.
[4] They often advise international bodies, governmental and state agencies, organizations, and trade unions.
[6] Factory workers and laborers in a broad host of emergent industries at the time were becoming profoundly ill and often dying due to work exposures which prompted formal efforts to better understand, recognize, treat and prevent occupational injury and disease.
[citation needed] Research Institute of Occupational Medicine of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) Australasia