Department of Defense
INSTRUCTION
NUMBER 6055.05
November 11, 2008
Incorporating Change 1, November 21, 2017
USD(AT&L)
SUBJECT: Occupational and Environmental Health (OEH)
References: See Enclosure 1
1. PURPOSE. This Instruction:
a. Reissues DoD Instruction (DoDI) 6055.5 (Reference (a)) to implement policy, assign
responsibilities, and describe procedures in support of DoD Directive (DoDD) 4715.1E
(Reference (b)) and DoDI 6055.01 (Reference (c)).
b. Expands risk management procedures to anticipate, recognize, evaluate, and control
health hazards associated with occupational and environmental exposures to chemical, physical,
and biological hazards in DoD workplaces to include military operations and deployments.
c. Establishes industrial hygiene (IH) and occupational medical surveillance performance
metrics.
d. Establishes the DoD Industrial Hygiene Working Group (IHWG) and the DoD
Occupational Medicine Working Group (OMWG).
e. Authorizes other publications related to and supporting (OEH including, but not limited
to, DoD 6055.05-M (Reference (d))).
2. APPLICABILITY AND SCOPE. This Instruction:
a. Applies:
(1) To OSD, the Military Departments, the Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff and the Joint Staff, the Combatant Commands, the Office of the Inspector General of the
Department of Defense, the Defense Agencies, the DoD Field Activities, and all other
