Dock workers

Emmelin A, Nystrom L, Wall S. 1993. Diesel exhaust exposure and smoking - A case-referent study of lung-cancer among Swedish dock workers. Epidemiology 4(3) 237-244. 

Consider the plight of shipping clerk, or dock worker or truck driver who may be called upon to make some of the decisions indicated. With limited education, sometimes inadequate information, voluminous regulations, and under time pressure, mistakes occasionally occur. 

Load and unload trailer, either individually or with assistance of dock workers, with or without mechanical freight-handling equipment. 

Penetration of wetted skin by snails. Workers in and around flesh water, divers, dock workers, lifeguards and recreational swimmers. 

Dock workers handling coffee beans may be exposed to castor-bean antigens at the same time, as the latter species is often a contaminant [171]. Malten described a dock worker who reacted to barley in cattle fodder and flared when handling the plant [285]. 

Allergic manifestations due to castor beans an undue risk for the dock workers handling green coffee beans. Med Lav 81 301-307 197. 

As well as knowing how to read emergency response information, employees (drivers, dispatchers, dock workers, etc.) must also be trained on the correct response if they suspect there is a hazardous materials spill or leak. While there may be differences because of the materials involved or company operations, the basic response is fairly straightforward. Employees should be trained to ... 

Zhang and co-workers worked on the structure-based, computer-assisted search for low molecular weight, non-peptidic protein tyrosine phosphate IB (PTPIB) inhibitors, also using the DOCK methodology [89], They identified several potent and selective PTPIB inhibitors by saeening the ACD. 

This third explosion was too much for tlie people of Texas City, who had responded efficiently to the initial two blasts. Hundreds were forced to leave the city, letting the fire bum itself out. The series of explosions luid killed approximately 500 people and seriously injured 1000 otliers. The final deatli toll iiuiy ha e been as high as 1000 because the dock area contained a large population of migrant workers without permanent address or known relatives. It was reported tliat tliis disaster probably was caused by careless smoking aboard tlie Grandcamp. 

A worker walks underneath a ship s propeller in a dry dock in Canada. iCorbis Corporation)... 

Unsecured objects, such as bricks and gas cylinders, near the edges of elevated surfaces, such as catwalks, roof tops, and scaffolding, which may dislodge and fall on workers Debris and weeds that obstruct visibility Install skid-resistant strips and other antiskid devices on slippery surfaces Construct operation pads for mobile facilities and temporary structures Construct loading docks, processing and staging areas, and decontamination pads... 

The divers who were involved in the construction of these docks and breakers got 540 per day. Since they could only work during slack water, a diver might only be submerged for an hour or two a day, and when he was down there must be another diver above water. The salaries of the other workers were also high but did not compare with the divers . It was expected that labor charges alone would be 20% greater than if the same work were performed in the contiguous 48 states. 

These increases in efficiency pose a threat to the workers in the industry. As a result, they may strike, and the final settlement may result in a nullification of many economic benefits. This happened when the railroads converted from steam locomotives to diesels. At that time the union forced the management to keep a fireman on every train whether he was needed or not. Similarly, the settlement of a recent East Coast dock strike provided a setback to the use of containerized units. It stated that all containerized units that entered New York ports could be unpacked and repacked at the union s request and the shipper s expense, if the final destination was less than 50 miles from the dock, or if the container had more than one product within it.8... 

In a more recent continuation of these studies, Campiani and co-workers carried out semi-empirical calculations on a series of active compounds related to 2. This led to the identification of several structural and conformational features responsible for this activity <2005JME4367>. Docking into the human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1) reverse transcriptase non-nucleotide binding site (RT NNBS) of a compound of type 3 (X = O) highlighted that one of the phenyl rings of this compound protrudes toward the catalytic site <2005JME7153>. 

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