Exposed! Or not? The diminishing record of workplace exposure in Canada

Canadian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Hall, Amy L ^a   Peters, Cheryl E ^a   Demers, Paul A ^b   Davies, Hugh W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b CANCER CARE ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Exposure database; Hazard control; Occupational exposure; Workplace surveillance

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN;

CANADA; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; SAFETY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; WORKPLACE;

CANADA; CARCINOGENS; DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; SAFETY; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84904116715     PISSN: 00084263     EISSN: 19207476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17269/cjph.105.4266     Document Type: Note

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