Occupational hygiene science and its application in occupational health policy, at home and abroad
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Occupational hygiene science and its application in occupational health policy, at home and abroad.
This paper examines the role of occupational hygiene in the overall framework of occupational health. It draws attention to the unique combination of required individual science subjects, and to the way in which occupational hygiene science contributes to the practice of occupational hygiene in the real world. It focuses in particular on occupational exposure standards. The paper provides, as a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Occupational Medicine
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0962-7480,1471-8405
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/49.1.27