Reproductive Hazards

Reproductive hazards in the work place.

Discusses the importance of addressing the potential toxic effects of harmful agents encountered through occupational exposure on the fetus and the male and female reproductive systems. Some employers in the United States have excluded females from job positions that may have the potential to interfere with normal reproductive function. This policy is contrary to the Equal Employment Opportun...

Approaches to evaluating reproductive hazards and risks.

Development of approaches to risk assessment for reproductive toxicity has aided in the critical evaluation of the scientific basis for interpretation of data and the description of assumptions underlying the process. In addition, it has helped to standardize, to the extent possible, the use of qualitative and quantitative data in the hazard identification and dose-response processes and to ide...

Evidence for workplace Hazards to Reproductive Function

Reproductive and developmental hazards and employment policies.

The task of informing workers of hazards in the workplace is seldom more difficult than with the subject of reproductive and developmental hazards. Occupational health staff and physicians are faced with a paucity of relevant medical information. Workers, kept aware of the thalidomide spectre with every media report of the latest descriptive epidemiology study, are anxious to know more. Employe...

P-13: Male Reproductive Organs Are at Riskfrom Environmental Hazards

Background: Male reproductive disorders that are of interest from an environmental point of view include sexual dysfunction, infertility, cryptorchidism, hypospadias and testicular cancer. Several reports suggest declining sperm counts and increase of these reproductive disorders in some areas during some time periods past 50 years. Materials and Methods: Except for testicular cancer this evide...