Protecting workers with developmental disabilities

Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 171-181

  Lenhart, Steven W ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; ERGONOMICS; HUMAN; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; DISABLED PERSON; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; INJURY; MANAGEMENT; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; UNITED STATES;

DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; DISABLED PERSONS; HUMANS; NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; POLICY MAKING; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0034132338     PISSN: 1047322X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/104732200301647     Document Type: Note

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