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The estimated risk from the observed radon distributions is such that a substantial fraction of the northeastern United States population is exposed to levels high enough to warrant immediate attention. 

Various approaches have been suggested in the scientific literature for use in the evaluation of the health risks from exposure to mixtures of chemicals. Most attention and effort has been devoted to procedures to assess cumulative effects of exposure to chemicals that act by a similar mechanism/mode of action (US-EPA 2000a), in which case the concept of dose addition applies. 

After the end of World War II, science was a major organizing factor in Sweden s focusing attention on possible health and environmental risks from humans discharge of chemicals into the environment. For many decades, Sweden has been hailed as an enviable example of how effective environmental policies based on sound expertise can be implemented to the benefit of its inhabitants, and in many respects this reputation is well deserved. For instance, it is now possible to catch salmon from bridges in Stockholm, and a steady stream of delegations from other nations has arrived to learn more about the Swedish model for environmental protection. 

During loading and application of pesticide, there should be supervision of employees by experienced people. The employees should be carefully instructed, before the working day starts, about the intended applications and where pesticide handling and exposure may occur. As a reminder, there. should be posters and notices drawing attention to, and clearly defining the health ha7,ards and risks from, overexposure to anti-ChE.s. Pn/vision should be made for preemployment medicals for new workers and for regular periodic medical examinations for established workers. 

This paper presented preliminary, nationwide estimates of societal risks from floods in the Netherlands. These indicate that the levels of societal risk levels are expected to be relatively high in the south western part of the country where densely populated dike rings are threatened by a combination of river and coastal floods. These areas deserve specific attention and priority when decisions are prepared about flood risk mitigation. 

Much attention will usually inevitably devolve onto the provision of gloves, barrier creams, skin cleansers and after-work creams. Interest should be expressed during the visit in the methods of selection of such products and their resulting suitability for the job(s) in question. It may be worthwhile, on occasion, to ask to meet the individual(s) at the plant responsible for such decisions. You will find that such personnel often betray the fact, or know only too well themselves, that they do not have adequate knowledge on which to base their purchasing strategy. Your visit may then act as a catalyst for an employer to acquire more expertise in the area of prevention, as well as in the initial prediction of risk from contact irritants and allergens. 

Initial interest in lead intoxication as a clinical phenomenon was focussed on encephalopathy and the gross neuropathological changes that can be ascribed to lead exposure only more recently have the less obvious consequences, like behavioural effects and their possible basis, been studied in depth. Attention has been focussed on children as the group most at risk from lead intoxication. As they appear to be more sensitive than adults with respect to the more obvious manifestations of lead toxicity, the same has been presumed to be true for more subtle effects. 

The exposme-outcome results often form the basis of the application of safety technology to injmy prevention and control. Industrial deafness has drawn the attention of safety engineering experts in the application of hearing protection devices. Respiratory protection has required the development of a range of controls to address a wide range of risks, from simple dust masks to the more elaborate use of positive pressme air-supphed respirators. 

While many argued that faster, better, cheaper focused agency attention away from flight safety considerations, this view was disputed by Goldin, NASA s Administrator and the strategy s principal champion, who acknowledged the inherent risks in human space flight ... 

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