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. ; Steege, Andrea L. ; Welch LS
• Description:
  Some industries pose especially complex challenges for health professionals due to the wide variability of exposures and the high mobility of workers. In these industries, where workers are simultaneously exposed to many different hazards and perform a variety of tasks, it can be difficult to determine which hazard or task is responsible for a worker's health problem. Sometimes multiple exposures may cause the problem, and determining the responsible exposures may be difficult. While knowledge of the health effects of specific hazards is important, health professionals also need to appreciate the complex factors present in hazardous work. In this chapter, we describe three hazardous industries-agriculture. construction, and health care-to address some of these complexities. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Construction Industry Environmental Health Hazardous Substances Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Health Personnel Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Public Health Race Factors Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety

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• Keywords:
  Agricultural-industry Agricultural-workers Construction Construction-industry Construction-workers Employee-health Environmental-health Hazards Health-care Health-care-facilities Health-care-personnel Health-hazards Occupational-exposure Occupational-hazards Occupational-health Public-health Racial-factors Risk-analysis Risk-factors Sociological-factors Task-performance

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• ISBN:
  9780195397888
• Publisher:
  Oxford University Press
• 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:20044508
• Citation:
  Occupational and environmental health: recognizing and preventing disease and injury, 6th edition. Levy BS, Wegman DH, Baron SL, Sokas RK, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011 Jan; :753-778
• Editor(s):
  Levy BS; Wegman DH; Baron SL; Sokas RK
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2011
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Occupational and environmental health: recognizing and preventing disease and injury, 6th edition
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:6135cd33d60cac2a316d793638b125d0ef284279cbfbcf3a917d75a8a2a9156a24e508ac03f2f5cffd5a9816434e040bb7c05ed44fc63ece257013ba743bf682
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/200194/cdc_200194_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 7.14 MB ]