Designing an international industrial hygiene database of exposures among workers in the asphalt industry

Annals of Occupational Hygiene

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 57-66

  Burstyn, Igor ^a,b   Kromhout, Hans ^a   Cruise, Pamela J ^c   Brennan, Paul ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^c Database Developer and Consultant   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Asphalt; Bitumen; Database; Retrospective exposure assessment

Indexed keywords

ASPHALT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG INDUSTRY; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASPHALT; DATABASE SYSTEMS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH RISKS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ASPHALT INDUSTRY; RETROSPECTIVE EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT;

OCCUPATIONAL RISKS;

EID: 0033622921     PISSN: 00034878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4878(99)00102-7     Document Type: Article

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