World at work: Bricklayers and bricklayers' assistants

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 89-93

  Van Der Molen, H F ^a,c   Veenstra, S J ^b   Sluiter, J K ^a   Frings Dresen, M H W ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Occup Hygiene Consultancy Veenstra ^*  (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEMENT; SILICON DIOXIDE;

BUILDING INDUSTRY; CLIMATE; DUST; DUST EXPOSURE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; NOISE POLLUTION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; REVIEW; SAFETY; SILICOSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIBRATION; WORK CAPACITY; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKLOAD;

CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; WORKLOAD;

EID: 0347126425     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2002.001750     Document Type: Review

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