Protecting waste collectors all around the worla

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 820-821

  Frings Dresen, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATIGUE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; MUSCULOSKELETAL INJURY; NOTE; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL DEAFNESS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; WASTE;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; REFUSE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 28444457452     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2005.023101     Document Type: Note

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