Occupation and disease - a guide for decision-making.

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  This guide presents a general method for assembling and evaluating medical and environmental data to assist in deciding whether a disease condition is of occupational origin. Data are given for 15 specific disease producing agents: antimony (7440360), arsenic (7440382), asbestos (1332214), benzene (71432), beryllium (7440417), carbon-monoxide (630080), chromic-acid (1333820), coke oven emissions, cotton dust, lead (7439921) (inorganic), nitrogen-dioxide (10102440), noise, silica (7631869), sulfur-dioxide (7446095), and toluene-diisocyanate (584849). Detailed considerations are included covering medical, personal, family and occupational histories, clinical evaluation, signs and symptoms of occupational diseases, laboratory tests, epidemiological data, industrial hygiene sampling and evaluation data, and established standards for exposure to occupational disease producing agents. Also included are a discussion of aggravation of preexisting conditions and legal ramifications thereof; guidelines for assessing the qualifications of medical and industrial hygiene personnel who may present testimony; normal values for various biological tests and variables; sample questionnaires for evaluating respiratory symptoms; a listing of occupations with possible exposure to the 15 agents; and references giving toxicological data for these agents. (Contract No. 210-75-0075)
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Agricultural-chemicals Automotive-industry Cement-industry Chemical-processing-industry Clinical-tests Contract-210-75-0075 Diagnostic-tests Epidemiology Etiology Hazards Health-care-personnel Leather-industry Legislation NIOSH-Contract Petroleum-industry Plastics-manufacturing-industry Regulations Smelters Toxic-substances Toxicology

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• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Contract
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-247
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00068882
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1976 Feb; :1-247
• CAS Registry Number:
  Antimony (CAS RN 7440-36-0) ; Arsenic (CAS RN 7440-38-2) ; Asbestos (CAS RN 1332-21-4) ; Benzene (CAS RN 71-43-2) ; Beryllium (CAS RN 7440-41-7) ; Carbon monoxide (CAS RN 630-08-0) ; Chromic trioxide (CAS RN 1333-82-0) ; Lead (CAS RN 7439-92-1) ; Nitrogen dioxide (CAS RN 10102-44-0) ; Silica (CAS RN 7631-86-9) ; Sulfur dioxide (CAS RN 7446-09-5) ; Toluene 2,4-diisocyanate (CAS RN 584-84-9)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1976
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e7725aab00e2fd27a19a82f5782ab5551c66aa9a11df43065d375e97abf2d050aa1edcca1c9e616b21e9b198e2a7a99470ea7f40edd3b57f67644e852c2e06aa
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/178784/cdc_178784_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 8.24 MB ]