Emergency Preparedness and Response in Occupational Setting: A Position Statement
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1 AP-HP, EMS (Samu92), Occupational Health Unit, Raymond Poincaré University Hospital, Garches, France, 2 University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Versailles, France, 3 INSERM, UMS 011 UMR1168, Villejuif, France, 4 Corporate Health Management, OMV AG, Vienna, Austria, 5 Austrian Academy for Occupational Health & Prevention, Klostenreuburg, Austria, 6 Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, 7 Global First Aid Center, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Paris, France, 8 Department of Public Health, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan, 9 La Poste Service Medical/Groupement Infirmier du Travail (GIT), Paris, France, 10 Bureau of International Health Cooperation NCGM, Tokyo, Japan
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