Author: National Institute for Occupational Safety and HealthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hazardous substances
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Occupational Exposure to Crystalline Silica
Author: National Institute for Occupational Safety and HealthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hazardous substances
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Occupational Exposure to Styrene
Author: An Identification System for Occupationally Hazardous Materials
Author: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Division of Technical Services. Industrial Hygiene Services BranchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hazardous substances
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Decisions
Author: United States. Federal Mine Safety and Health Review CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Black Lung
Author: Alan DericksonPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801471559
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
In the definitive history of a twentieth-century public health disaster, Alan Derickson recounts how, for decades after methods of prevention were known, hundreds of thousands of American miners suffered and died from black lung, a respiratory illness caused by the inhalation of coal mine dust. The combined failure of government, medicine, and industry to halt the spread of this disease—and even to acknowledge its existence—resulted in a national tragedy, the effects of which are still being felt. The book begins in the late nineteenth century, when the disorders brought on by exposure to coal mine dust were first identified as components of a debilitating and distinctive illness. For several decades thereafter, coal miners' dust disease was accepted, in both lay and professional circles, as a major industrial disease. Derickson describes how after the turn of the century medical professionals and industry representatives worked to discredit and supplant knowledge about black lung, with such success that this disease ceased to be recognized. Many authorities maintained that breathing coal mine dust was actually beneficial to health. Derickson shows that activists ultimately forced society to overcome its complacency about this deadly and preventable disease. He chronicles the growth of an unprecedented movement—from the turn-of-the-century miners' union, to the social medicine activists in the mid-twentieth century, and the black lung insurgents of the late sixties—which eventually won landmark protections and compensation with the enactment of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act in 1969. An extraordinary work of scholarship, Black Lung exposes the enormous human cost of producing the energy source responsible for making the United States the world's preeminent industrial nation.
Human and Ecological Risk Assessment
Author: Dennis J. PaustenbachPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 111974296X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1319
Book Description
Understand the fundamentals of human risk assessment with this introduction and reference Human risk assessments are a precondition for virtually all industrial action or environmental regulation, all the more essential in a world where chemical and environmental hazards are becoming more abundant. These documents catalog potential environmental, toxicological, ecological, or other harms resulting from a particular hazard, from chemical spills to construction projects to dangerous workplaces. They turn on a number of variables, of which the most significant is the degree of human exposure to the hazardous agent or process. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment combines the virtues of a textbook and reference work to introduce and analyze these vital documents. Beginning with the foundational theory of human health risk assessment, it then supplies case studies and detailed analysis illustrating the practice of producing risk assessment documents. Fully updated and authored by leading authorities in the field, the result is an indispensable work. Readers of the second edition of Human and Ecological Risk Assessment will also find: Over 40 entirely new case studies reflecting the latest in risk assessment practice Detailed discussion of hazards including air emissions, contaminated food and soil, hazardous waste sites, and many more Case studies from multiple countries to reflect diverse international standards Human and Ecological Risk Assessment is ideal for professionals and advanced graduate students in toxicology, industrial hygiene, occupational medicine, environmental science, and all related subjects.
The American City
Author: Arthur Hastings GrantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
Illness and the Environment
Author: J. Stephen Kroll-SmithPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814747299
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
In 25 papers, academics and a few environmental scientists/ activists discuss profound social, policy, and competing paradigm issues concerning the contested environment-disease link in a "postnatural" world. Include discussion questions. Kroll-Smith is a professor of sociology at the U. of New Orleans. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 3208
Book Description
Federal Register
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 2264
Book Description