Occupational Injury Risk Assessment: Perspective and Introduction to the Second Special Issue

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• Personal Author:
  Bailer AJ ; Wassell, James T.
• Description:
  Risk assessment continues to be an important process for collecting and describing the evidence regarding the potential of exposure to a particular hazard to induce adverse responses. Workers often experience much higher exposures to hazards than the general population and thus are worthy of special attention. Injuries in the workplace are frequent and result in great impact to the lives of the workers affected. In addition, workplace injuries also impose high economic costs on industries with high exposures to hazards. During 1980 to 1997, there were an average of 16 work-related deaths per day. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Exposure-levels Hazards Injuries Occupational-hazards Risk-factors Work-environment Workers
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• ISSN:
  1080-7039
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  SRL - Spokane Research Laboratory ; EID - Education and Information Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  7
• Issue:
  7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20021924
• Citation:
  Hum Ecol Risk Assess 2001; 7(7):1775-1776
• Contact Point Address:
  James T. Wassell, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Division of Safety Research, 1095 Willowdale Road, Morgantown, WV 26505-2888
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2001
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Human and Ecological Risk Assessment
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:541f11687cf455abd27c4621a096e7b209015dc2763920d415f054370e369c144e621d001d1889b81c94d77db31468976f8320e8de00156f7417fbbb347f0917
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/220526/cdc_220526_DS1.pdf
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