Exposure assessment in SMEs: A low-cost approach to bring OHS services to small-scale enterprises

Industrial Health

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 27-30

  Seneviratne, Mahinda ^a   Phoon, Wai On ^b  

^a Workers Health Centre   (Australia)

^b University of Sydney   (Australia)

Author keywords

Exposure assessments; Information; OHS service; Small to medium sized enterprises

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL AGENT;

CONFERENCE PAPER; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DUST EXPOSURE; FIBER; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NOISE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; ORGANIZATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; WORKPLACE;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; NEW SOUTH WALES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATIONS, NONPROFIT; WORKPLACE;

EID: 33644502595     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.44.27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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