Combined Exposures to Noise and Chemicals at Work

Encyclopedia of Environmental Health

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 755-763

  Sliwinska Kowalska, M ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Asphyxiants; Cadmium; Carbon monoxide; Hearing loss; Heavy metals; Hydrogen cyanide; Lead; Mercury; Noise; Organic solvents; Styrene; Toluene; Xylenes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84983359822     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-52272-6.00255-5     Document Type: Chapter

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