Major advances in the chemical industry have resulted in the development of a very wide range of chemicals and commercial products used to fight pests (weeds, insects and fungi), and to a large ...

The job-exposure matrix described has been developed for use in population based studies of occupational morbidity and mortality in England and Wales. The job axis of the matrix is based on the ...

Epidemiological studies have sought to better characterize and quantify the relationship between occupational noise exposures and adverse health outcomes. However, these studies are challenging to ...

Researchers in the UK have developed a new method for evaluating plutonium workers’ historical internal radiation exposure. They focused their study on workers employed at the start of plutonium ...

Objectives The authors investigated the risk of bladder cancer in association with exposure to over 12 000 occupational chemical agents, complex mixtures, and other substances (hereafter referred to ...

Lifetime workplace exposure to pesticides is linked to a heightened risk of COPD, the umbrella term for a group of respiratory diseases that cause airflow blockage and breathing problems, finds a ...

Lifetime workplace exposure to pesticides is linked to a heightened risk of COPD, the umbrella term for a group of respiratory diseases that cause airflow blockage and breathing problems, finds a ...

Investigators analyzed 12 categories of workplace agents, but only the composite category of pesticides was found to be linked with developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. A new analysis of ...

Exposure assessment is an applied science that describes how an individual or population comes in contact with a risk factor, including quantification of the amount of the risk factor across space and ...