Medicine occupational

Industrial hygienists work closely with members of several other professions concerned with workplace health and safety, eg, occupational medicine, occupational health nursing, and safety engineering. AH of these groups are involved in the implementation of the laws that regulate workplace health and safety. In the United States the principal law is the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) (1) enforced by the U.S. Department of Labor (U.S. 

R. Pittelkow in C. Zen 2, ed.. Occupational Medicine, Year Book Medical Pubhshers, Inc., Chicago, Dl., 1975, Chapt. 12. 

The occupational physician for a project should be identified and, for HAZWOPER jobs, is required to be board certified in occupational medicine [4]. For any job that involves exposure to hazardous substances, it is important that you locate and use an occupational physician (sometimes referred to in the field as an Oc Doc) who is knowledgeable about the hazards that your workers are exposed to. Sometimes in medicine, as in many other fields, working with a physician who specializes in the hazard that your company deals with can be a lifesaver. 

Bardodej Z, Vyskocil J. 1956. The problem of trichloroethylene in occupational medicine trichloroethylene metabolism and its effect on the nervous system evaluated as a means of hygienic control. AMA Arch Ind Health 56 581-592. 

Burg JE, Gist GL, Allred SL, et al. 1995. The national exposure registry - morbidity analysis of noncancer outcomes from the trichloroethylene subregistry baseline data. International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 4 237-257. 

Grasso P. 1988. Neurotoxic and neurobehavioral effects of organic solvents on the nervous system. Occupational Medicine State of the Art Reviews. 3 525-539. 

Optical microscope asbestos reference standards for use in identifying and quantifying asbestos types are available both from NIST and the Institute of Occupational Medicine flOM) in Edinburgh, Scotland. The lOM materials consists of various asbestos materials actinolite, amosite, anthophyUite, chrysotile (both from Cassiar, Canada and Zimbabwe), crocidolite and tremoUte. 

Davies, J.E., Enos, H.F., Barquet, A., Morgade, C., and Danauskas, J.X. (1979) Developments in toxicology and environmental sciences pesticide monitoring studies. The epidemiologic and toxicologic potential of urinary metabolites, in Toxicology and Occupational Medicine, Deichman, W.B., Ed., pp. 369-380. 

Landrigan PJ. 1988. Epidemiologic assessment of lead absorption associated with incineration of municipal waste. Division of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY. 

Gidlow DA (2004) In-depth review - lead toxicity. Occupational Medicine 54(2) 76-81, Society of Occupational Medicine... 

Grunske F. 1949. Health care and occupational medicine. Ventox and Ventox intoxication. Dtsch Med Wochenschr 74 1081 -1083. 

Stickel, L.F., W.H. Stickel, R.D. McArthur, and D.L. Hughes. 1979. Chlordane in birds a study of lethal residues and loss rates. Pages 387-396 in W.B. Deichmann (ed.). Toxicology and Occupational Medicine. Elsevier/North Holland, New York. 

Selden A, Kvamlof A, Bodin L, et al. 1994. Health effects of low level occupational exposure to hexachloroethane. Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 3(10) 73-79. 

The content of heavy metals in human hair was defined by the Roentgen-fluorescent method (non-toxic metals) in the laboratory of analytical chemistry and toxic substances at Institute of the Occupational Medicine of Scientific Medical Academy of Ukraine. 

This book is extremely important in my view because it gives a forum to the voices and tells the stories of a new invisible minority who are casualties of our chemical-dependent economic base. Dr. Michael Tax, a specialist in occupational medicine, rightly insists that MCS is a product of industrial capitalism and cannot be understood independently of it. 

When I finally went to see a specialist in occupational medicine,... 

Morrow, L.A., et al. A Distinct Pattern of Personality Disturbance Following Exposure to Mixtures of Organic Solvents. Journal of Occupational Medicine, Vol. 31, No. 9, pp. 743-746, September 1989. 

UK,INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY EUROPEAN UNION UK WESTERN EUROPE... 

Seppalainen, A.M. (1975). Applications of neurophysiological methods in occupational medicine A review. Scand J. Work Envim. Health 1 1-14. 

Gilbert, E.S., Studies of workers exposed to low doses of external radiation, Occupational Medicine, 6, 665, 1991. 

Lambert, B.E., The adequacy of current occupational standards for protecting the health of nuclear workers, Occupational Medicine, 6, 725-740, 1991. 

Wilkinson, G.S., Epidemiologic studies of nuclear and radiation workers an overview of what is known about health risks posed by the nuclear industry, Occupational Medicine, 6, 715, 1991. 

Korte F, Klein W, Weisgerber, et al. 1970. Recent results in studies on the fate of chlorinated insecticides. Inter-American Conference on Toxic and Occupational Medicine, 6th Pesticides Symposia, 51-56. 

TOMES. 1994. TOMES (Toxicology, Occupational Medicine and Environmental Series) electronic database. Endrin Endrin metabolites. Micromedex, Inc. Vol. 78. 

LaDou, JY. 1990. Occupational Medicine. Appleton Lange. Norwalk, Connecticut and San Mateo, California. 

Baker EL Jr. 1983. Neurological disorders. Environmental and Occupational Medicine 84 313-327. 

Stevens JT, Greene FE, Stitzel RE, et al. 1973. Effects of anticholinesterase insecticides on mouse and rat liver microsomal mixed function oxidase. In Deichmann W.B., Ed. Pesticides and the environment A continuing controversy. Proceedings of the 8th Inter-American Conference on Toxicology and Occupational Medicine, University of Miami School of Medicine, 489-501. 

The great Italian physician Ramazzini, who is considered to be the father of occupational medicine, wrote in the early 1700s about the health problems that beset the tradesmen of his time—the cobblers, the coopers, the tanners, the millers, and the others—who labored from childhood to middle age in work that they knew would ultimately kill or disable them. He described trades in which children entered the workforce at the age of 10 or 12 even though they knew that by the age of 40 they could be disabled or even dead. Although Ramazzini described the conditions and treated the sick, he couldn t do much to prevent these conditions. It is only now, in fact, over the past 40 years or so, that society has begun to recognize that a healthy workplace is not merely a desirable luxury, but a right for the worker and an asset to productivity. 

David was a doctor, a specialist in occupational medicine, with particular interest in the toxicological problems of industry, and, in fact, he was on his way home from a conference on the East Coast where he had presented a scientific paper on some of his latest research. So it was a pleasing coincidence that as he sat taking his ease, he should be confronted with a case the like of which he had never encountered before. 

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