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DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). 1997. List of MAK and BAT Values 1997. Maximum Concentrations and Biological Tolerance Values at the Workplace. Report No. 33.1st Ed. Weinheim Wiley-VCH. 

Stein EC, Schiffer RB, Hall WJ, Young N (1987) Multiple sclerosis and the workplace report of an industry-based cluster. Neurology, 37 1672-1677. 

R. A. Shanley, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Water Pollution Control Policy, Presidential Studies Quarterly, vol. 18, pp. 319—330 (1988) L. B. Dworsky, Conservation in the United States, A Documentary History Pollution (New York, Chelsea House, 1971), p. 21 Office of Technology Assessment, Preventing Illness and Injury in the Workplace, Report OTA-H-256, April 1985, p. 211 R. C. Williams, The United States Public Health Service, 7798-1950 (Washington, D.C., Commissioned Officers Association of the United States Public Health Service, 1951), pp. 167, 279-282, 313-320, 535-537. 

Other standards, actions and programs, such as regulations on mercury exposures in the workplace, reporting requirements, fish consumption advisories and consumer safety measures. 

Anonymous (1987) MAK, Maximum Concentrations at the Workplace, Report No. XXIII DFG, VCH Verlagsgesellschaft Weinheim, Basel, Cambridge, New York. 

DEG (2002) List ofMAK and BAT values 2002. Maximum concentrations and biological tolerance values at the workplace. Report No. 38. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim. 

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Environmental exposures to PCBs are significantly lower than those reported in the workplace and are therefore unlikely to cause adverse human health effects in adults. However, it is apparent from the results of several recent studies on children that there was a correlation between in utero exposure to PCBs, eg, cord blood levels, and developmental deficits (65—68) including reduced bkth weight, neonatal behavior anomaUes, and poorer recognition memories. At four years of age, there was stiU a correlation between prenatal PCB exposure levels and short-term memory function (verbal and quantitative). In these studies the children were all exposed to relatively low environmental levels of PCBs. Although these effects may be related to other contaminants, it is clear that this is an area of concern regarding the potential adverse human health impacts of PCBs. 

N. F. Petersson and P. Vikstrom. Punktutsug for svetsarbetsplats (Local exhaust for a welding workplace). ASF 80/282. Stockholm Report K-Konsult, 1981. 

Muscles are capable of contracting for very long periods of time when the exercise intensity is below 60% VO2 max. For example, endurance times of 3—5 hours at 50% and over eight hours at or below 40% VO2 max are reported. There are many instances in the workplace where individuals work at intensities averaging 20-40% VO2 max for an eight hour shift. 

With the increasing use of polymers in both the home and the workplace, there seems to have been a change in the nature of fires. Fire brigades now report fires that are shorter and more intense than previously there is also much more smoke and significantly greater amounts of toxic gases. All of these arise from the nature of the polymers being used in everyday life. 

Filter samples can be prepared to airborne workplace concentrations by spiking each filter with aqueous solution containing elements with concentrations gravimetrically traceable to ultrapure metals or stoidiiometricaUy well defined oxides. The amormts correspond for some of the materials to current threshold limit values of contaminants in workroom atmospheres provided that the simulated filter has been exposed to one cubic meter of air. The certified values are based on a gravimetric procedure, i.e. weight per volume composition of the primary reference material dissolved in high purity sub-dis-tiUed acids. The National Institute of Occupational Health in Oslo, Norway, has produced several batches of such materials certified for 20 elements. Additionally, information values are reported for four other elements see Table 6.2. 

All health care personnel should be strongly encouraged to receive the influenza vaccine yearly in order to prevent transmission of influenza within the health care facility and to decrease employee absenteeism for influenza-related reasons. The vaccine should be made available to employees at the workplace, free of charge. Employees should be asked to sign a declination if refusing to receive the influenza vaccine. Additionally, health care facilities should report the number of health care personnel receiving influenza vaccine as a patient safety measure.19... 

NCI. 1985. Monograph on human exposure to chemicals in the workplace Lead final report. Washington, DC U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Cancer Institute. July,... 

Brigden K, Labunska I, Santillo D, Allsopp M (2005) Recycling of electronic wastes in China and India workplace and environmental contamination, Report. Greenpeace... 

The federal government has developed regulations and advisories to protect individuals from the potential health effects of acrylonitrile in the environment. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recommends that acrylonitrile levels in water not exceed 0.058 ppb. Any release to the environment of more than 100 lb must be reported to the federal government. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has established a legally enforceable maximum limit of 2 ppm in workplace air for an 8-hour exposure over a 40-hour work week. 

Factory workers exposed for an average of 15 years to acrylonitrile vapors showed no increase in chromosomal aberrations in the peripheral lymphocytes (Thiess and Fleig 1978). As in most human studies, the actual concentration of acrylonitrile to which these workers were exposed was not reported. Flowever, monitoring data indicated that the average exposure concentration for the workers was 5 ppm for the majority of the exposure period (approximately 10 years) at the time the study was conducted, acrylonitrile levels in the workplace had been reduced to 1.5 ppm. 

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