Human Occupational Behavioral Toxicology

Details

• Personal Author:
  Johnson BL
• Description:
  The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of one aspect of behavioral toxicology, occupational behavioral toxiology. The content of this paper will therefore be restricted to investigations of humans exposed to chemicals of occupational relevance. In addition, the emphasis will be on human workplace investigations. As stated previously, this paper will present an overview of occupational behavioral toxicology. As the term is used in this paper, occupational behavioral toxicology refers to human laboratory and workplace investigations, and for which the concern is the effect of industrial chemicals on behavior. As the term is used in this paper, occupational behavioral toxicology refers to human laboratory and workplace investigations, and for which the concern is the effect of industrial chemicals on behavior. Also, it should be understood that "behavior" is used in its broadest sense, i.e., can include: a) human performance on structured performance tasks; b) subject's responses on measures of subjective distress scales (e. g. , personality inventories), or; c) observations made by clinicians of abnormal behavior. The intent of this paper is to acquaint the reader with the following: types of occupational behavioral toxicology studies, problems and limitations of such studies, and future directions for occupational behavioral toxicology. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Epidemiology Mental Disorders Mental Health Nervous System Occupational Health Safety Toxicology Workplace
• Keywords:
  Behavior-patterns Behavioral-disorders Behavioral-tests Neurotoxic-effects Occupational-psychology Psychological-effects Psychological-testing Work-environment Workplace-studies
• Publisher:
  Air Force Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DBBS - Division of Biomedical and Behavioral Sciences
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  61-71
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20027292
• Citation:
  Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Environmental Toxicology, Dayton, Ohio, November 18-20, 1980. Dayton, OH: Air Force Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory, 1981 Jun; :61-71
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1981
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Environmental Toxicology, Dayton, Ohio, November 18-20, 1980
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1493fe2d842ccfe15d757f319b8b3def4055106894ed33938745d0df230a16225ac2308c8deb9bde97f2050d7fc75d7d283408a7a8296eb7b74cd98ab9f5adf5
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/197525/cdc_197525_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.43 MB ]