Assessing the impact of national level interventions on workplace respiratory disease in the UK: Part 1-changes in workplace exposure legislation and market forces

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 476-482

  Stocks, S J ^a   McNamee, R ^a   Turner, S ^a   Carder, M ^a   Agius, R M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

GLUTARALDEHYDE; LATEX;

ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; LABORATORY; LAW; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RHINITIS; SHORT LATENCY RESPIRATORY DISEASE; UNITED KINGDOM; WORKPLACE;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; DISINFECTANTS; GLUTARAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LATEX; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84879686628     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2012-101123     Document Type: Article

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