Compliance versus risk in assessing occupational exposures

Risk Analysis

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 279-292

  Tornero Velez, Rogelio ^a   Symanski, Elaine ^a   Kromhout, Hans ^a   Yu, Kong C ^a   Rappaport, Stephen M ^a  

^a IL   (United States)

Author keywords

Compliance; Exceedance; Overexposure; Risk

Indexed keywords

CHEMICALS; HEALTH RISKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERSONNEL; PROBABILITY;

COMPLIANCE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE LIMIT; OVEREXPOSURE;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

CARCINOGEN; CHEMICAL AGENT;

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; EMPLOYER; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; VARIANCE; WORKER; WORKPLACE;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; RISK; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0031171370     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.1997.tb00866.x     Document Type: Article

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