2011 William P. Yant award lecture: Testing compliance with occupational exposure limits: Development of the British-Dutch guidance

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Ogden, Trevor ^a   Lavoué, Jérme ^b  

^a British Occupational Hygiene Society   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HUMAN; NETHERLANDS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; GREAT BRITAIN; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 84860009680     PISSN: 15459624     EISSN: 15459632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15459624.2012.663702     Document Type: Review

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