Silicosis remains a common occupational respiratory disease. Even in this era of highly sophisticated hygiene in European countries, new occupational cases of silicosis continue to be reported. Four cases of silicosis which developed after a relatively short occupational exposure to respirable silica among the members of one family are described. Four young men worked illegally abroad in mining...

An experimental study was performed to determine the applicability and accuracy of occupational hygienist's expert judgment in occupational exposure assessment. The effect of tier 1 model application on improvement of expert judgments were also realized. Hygienists were asked to evaluate inhalation exposure intensity in seven operating units in a tile factory before and after an exposure traini...

Jayjock and Lewis’ study “Implication of Hormesisfor Industrial Hygiene” represents a challenge for thescientific community to consider hormesis as a possibleworking hypothesis for redefining risk assessmentstrategy for low-dose exposures in the realm of IndustrialHygiene. This invited commentary aims at examiningsome aspects of the study for which no proven andconcl...

A company owned by 15 municipalities in central Finland operates a waste management system on behalf of its owner municipalities. The waste disposal system in the municipalities is based on the source separation of waste. The company's waste processing plant, which is the largest in Finland, has been in operation since fall 1997. The plant processes the dry waste fraction by separating out the ...

INTRODUCTION Environmental factors contribute with 16% of the burden of disease in Colombia. A main obstacle in implementing national and regional environmental and occupational health policies is the limited knowledge on the local ability to study and control the impact of harmful exposures on health. OBJECTIVE To identify needs for research and training in environmental and occupational hea...

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