What do we know about chemical hazards in offshore work?;Hva vet vi om kjemisk helsefare offshore?

Tidsskrift for den Norske Laegeforening

Volumn 124, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 2627-2629

  Moen, Bente E ^a   Steinsvåg, Kjersti ^a   Bråveit, Magne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS; BENZENE DERIVATIVE; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; PETROLEUM; HYDROCARBON;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; AWARENESS; CANCER; DRILL; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NORWAY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OIL INDUSTRY; PHYSICIAN; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SKIN DISEASE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DANGEROUS GOODS; MINING; NEOPLASM; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE;

EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING INDUSTRY; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS; NEOPLASMS; NORTH SEA; NORWAY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PETROLEUM; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 7744232111     PISSN: 00292001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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