Promoting sun safety in the workplace - What works?

Journal of Health, Safety and Environment

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Stoneham, Melissa ^a   Sendall, Marguerite C ^b   Crane, Phil ^b   Janda, Monika ^a   Kimlin, Michael ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Outdoor workers; Skin cancer; Sun safety; Workplace

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PHYSICIAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAFETY; SUN; WORKER; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84948807536     PISSN: 08156409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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