Assessment of Toxic Agents at the Workplace

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXVI

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2. Introductory Remarks

   • A. Berlin, R. E. Yodaiken, B. A. Henman

   Pages 1-2

3. Current Trends in Occupational Health and Hygiene — General Considerations I

   • R. Hays Bell, David C. Logan, Patricia Stewart

   Pages 3-7

4. Current Trends in Occupational Health and Hygiene — General Considerations II

   • H. J. Dunster

   Pages 8-15

5. Current Trends in Occupational Health and Hygiene — General Considerations III

   • A. Robbins

   Pages 16-28

6. Current Trends in Occupational Health and Hygiene — General Considerations IV

   • D. Henschler

   Pages 29-37

7. Current Trends in Occupational Health and Hygiene — General Considerations V

   • L. Parmeggiani

   Pages 38-42

8. Recent and Potential Advances Applicable to the Protection of Workers’ Health — Ambient Monitoring I

   • A. Schuetz, W. Coenen

   Pages 43-53

9. Recent and Potential Advances Applicable to the Protection of Workers’ Health — Ambient Monitoring II

   • M. Corn

   Pages 54-70

10. Recent and Potential Advances Applicable to the Protection of Workers’ Health — Biological Monitoring I

    • P. Hughes

    Pages 71-83

11. Recent and Potential Advances Applicable to the Protection of Workers’ Health — Biological Monitoring II

    • R. L. Zielhuis

    Pages 84-94

12. Current Use of Ambient and Biological Monitoring: Reference Workplace Hazards. Inorganic Toxic Agents — Carbon Monoxide I

    • E. P. Radford

    Pages 95-102

13. Current Use of Ambient and Biological Monitoring Reference Workplace Hazards. Inorganic Toxic Agents — Carbon Monoxide II

    • P. J. Lawther

    Pages 103-108

14. Current Use of Ambient and Biological Monitoring: Reference Workplace Hazards. Inorganic Toxic Agents — Cadmium I

    • R. Lauwerys

    Pages 109-119

15. Current Use of Ambient and Biological Monitoring: Reference Workplace Hazards. Inorganic Toxic Agents — Cadmium II

    • H. M. Perry, E. F. Perry

    Pages 120-143

16. Current Use of Ambient and Biological Monitoring: Reference Workplace Hazards. Inorganic Toxic Agents — Discussion of Carbon Monoxide and Cadmium

    • W. Sunderman

    Pages 144-160

17. Current Use of Ambient and Biological Monitoring: Reference Workplace Hazards. Organic Toxic Agents — Benzene I

    • B. D. Goldstein

    Pages 161-173

18. Current Use of Ambient and Biological Monitoring: Reference Workplace Hazards. Organic Toxic Agents — Benzene II

    • E. Fournier

    Pages 174-187

19. Current Uses of Ambient and Biological Monitoring: Reference Work-Place Hazards. Organic Toxic Agents — Aromatic Amines I

    • V. Foa

    Pages 188-201

20. Current Use of Ambient and Biological Monitoring: Reference Workplace Hazards. Organic Toxic Agents — Aromatic Amines II

    • L. Fishbein

    Pages 202-226

1.1 Organisation and aims This International Seminar, organised jointly by the Com­ mission of the European Communities and the United States authorities (Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health) has brought together more than 150 participants from the Member States of the European Community, from the United States, and also from Greece, Finland, Sweden and Switzer­ land. The aim of the Seminar was to examine the roles of ambient and biological monitoring in protecting the health of workers exposed to toxic agents and to define a multidisciplinary approach to this monitoring. To achieve this aim expertise from the following disciplines, directly or indirectly involved with monitoring, was called upon: medicine, industrial hygiene, nursing, biology, engi­ neering, chemistry, epidemiology, statistics, economics and jurisprudence, and representatives from trade unions, indus­ try and government agencies. The difference in concepts that each of these disciplines has of monitoring and of its role in the team is fully reflected in the papers. 1.2 Current trends in occupational health and hygiene (as related to monitoring).

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• prevention
• research

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