Assessing the impact of national level interventions on workplace respiratory disease in the UK: Part 2-regulatory activity by the Health and Safety Executive

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 483-490

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOCYANATE; PAINT; ROSIN;

ARTICLE; DUST; FLOUR; FUME; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SHORT LATENCY RESPIRATORY DISEASE; UNITED KINGDOM; WOOD DUST;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ASTHMA, OCCUPATIONAL; DUST; FLOUR; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ISOCYANATES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; WOOD; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84879694516     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2012-101124     Document Type: Article

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