Health Hazard Evaluation Program: what employers should know

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Hazard Evaluations and Technical Assistance Branch
• Description:
  This pamphlet explains NIOSH (the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health) and its mission (to develop new knowledge about occupational safety and health and see that it is used to protect workers). It goes on to describe the Institute's Health Hazard Evaluation (HHE) Program, The Health Hazard Evaluation (HHE) Program evaluates workplaces throughout the United States. If you are an employer and want help assessing and controlling possible work-related health hazards in your workplace, you can ask for an evaluation. It is done at no cost to you. The HHE Program has expertise in many areas, including hazard identification, exposure assessment, symptom surveys, medical testing, and engineering controls. Health hazards that can be assessed include: 1) physical agents such as heat and noise; 2) biological agents such as mold; 3) infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and influenza; 4) chemicals such as solvents, metals, and particulates, and 5) psychosocial issues such as work stress. The pamphlet also points out the benefits to employers of having an evaluation done for their businesses, who can request an evaluation, and the contact information for the Institute and this program.
  
  NIOSHTIC No. 20045131
  
  
• Subjects:
  Health Risk Assessment Industrial Hygiene Industrial Safety Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Risk Assessment
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Document Type:
  Text
• Name as Subject:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Program (U.S.)
• Genre:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Pages in Document:
  8 unnumbered pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20045131
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:dccb235f35463237827694a07b4c3d0de08878843b16179c3ba604bd3438baad327447fa972b987ec738c8bd4ac56de37e5d3136e548dd234f5099998cbb394d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/25960/cdc_25960_DS1.pdf
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