Banding the world together; The global growth of control banding and qualitative occupational risk management

Safety and Health at Work

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 375-379

  Zalk, David M ^a   Heussen, Ga Henri ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Arbo Unie   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Control Banding; Prevention and control; Qualitative research; Risk assessment; Risk management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870572577     PISSN: 20937911     EISSN: 20937997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5491/SHAW.2011.2.4.375     Document Type: Note

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