Occupational health education and collaboration for reducing the risk of lead poisoning of workers in a battery manufacturing plant in Thailand

Industrial Health

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 440-445

  Lormphongs, Srirat ^a,b   Morioka, Ikuharu ^b   Miyai, Nobuyuki ^b   Yamamoto, Hiroichi ^b   Chaikittiporn, Chalermchai ^c   Thiramanus, Thirapong ^a   Miyashita, Kazuhisa ^b  

^a BURAPHA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Airborne lead level; Battery manufacturing plant; Blood lead level; Collaboration; Occupational health education

Indexed keywords

DETERGENT; DRINKING WATER;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BATH; BATTERY INDUSTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE MASK; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; HAND WASHING; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; LEAD POISONING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; THAILAND; TRAINING; WORKPLACE;

EID: 7944234348     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.42.440     Document Type: Article

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