Training health and safety committees to use control banding: Lessons learned and opportunities for the united states

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 307-314

  Bracker, Anne L ^a   Morse, Timothy F ^a   Simcox, Nancy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical hazards; Control banding; COSHH Essentials; Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS); Risk assessment; Training

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; RISK MANAGEMENT; SAFETY; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; RISK MANAGEMENT; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 66949168908     PISSN: 15459624     EISSN: 15459632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15459620902810083     Document Type: Article

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