Health and safety in waste collection: Towards evidence-based worker health surveillance

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1040-1064

  Kuijer, P Paul F M ^a   Sluiter, Judith K ^a   Frings Dresen, Monique H W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bioaerosols; Injury; Musculoskeletal disorders; Occupational disease; Respiratory disease; Worker health surveillance

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LITERATURE; LUNG DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; REVIEW; SAFETY; STATISTICS; WASTE; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; AEROSOLS; GARBAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REFUSE DISPOSAL; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; SAFETY; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77956927130     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: 10970274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.20870     Document Type: Review

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