Addressing Health and Safety Hazards in Specific Industries: Agriculture, Construction, and Health Care

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• Personal Author:
  Baron, Sherry L. ; Lipscomb, Jane A. ; Welch LS
• Description:
  Some industries pose especially complex challenges for occupational and environmental health professionals due to the variability of exposures and the high mobility of the workforce. In these industries, where workers perform a variety of tasks as they are exposed to many different hazards, it can be difficult to determine which exposure, if any, is responsible for a worker's health complaint. Sometimes, as in the above case, multiple exposures may interact, making diagnosis, treatment, and prevention especially difficult. Although knowledge of the health effects of individual hazards is important, occupational and environmental health professionals need to appreciate the complex ways in which workers experience these hazards and how the dynamic characteristics of industry can challenge their ability to control exposures and resultant health effects. In this chapter, we describe three important industries where workers face many hazards and where job mobility and task variability make assessment and control of hazards challenging. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Construction Industry Environmental Health Hazardous Substances Health Personnel Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Agricultural-industry Agricultural-workers Construction Construction-industry Construction-workers Environmental-health Health-care Health-care-personnel Health-hazards Occupational-exposure Occupational-hazards Occupational-health Worker-health Workers

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• ISBN:
  9780781755511
• Publisher:
  Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Book
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20029627
• Citation:
  Occupational and environmental health: recognizing and preventing disease and injury, 5th edition. Levy BS, Wegman DH, Baron SL, Sokas RK, eds. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005 Nov; :661-682
• Editor(s):
  Levy BS; Wegman DH; Baron SL; Sokas RK
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2006
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Occupational and environmental health: recognizing and preventing disease and injury, 5th edition
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d50a46e1c175751eb35ecbae838e9a1fd2f570e931bf778dcee1a9cf844935cba0f264aeb28c7e84b3ad9cf8736123bd766ae951c89db8128ad2331dae7da3dd
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/190566/cdc_190566_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 4.97 MB ]