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1 online resource (ix, 26 pages) : digital, PDF file (724.54 KB, 40 pages). |
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Current intelligence bulletin ; 60 |
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DHHS (NIOSH) publication ; no. 2009-116 |
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NIOSH current intelligence bulletin ; 60.
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DHHS publication ; no. (NIOSH) 2009-116.
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Title from title screen (viewed on Jan. 29, 2016). |
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"February 2009"--Page ii. |
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Based upon discussions at a workshop on occupational health surveillance and nanotechnology workers held April 17-18, 2007, Arlington, VA. |
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"This Current Intelligence Bulletin (CIB) was developed by the staff of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) who participate in the NIOSH Nanotechnology Research Center (NTRC). Special thanks go to Paul S. Schulte, Director, Education and Information Division, NIOSH and manager of the NTRC, Douglas Trout, and Ralph D. Zumwalde for writing and organizing the report. The NIOSH NTRC also acknowledges the contributions of Vanessa Becks and Gino Fazio for desktop publishing and graphic design, and Douglas Platt for editing the document."--Page viii. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 8-12). |
| Contents |
Foreword -- Executive summary -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. -- Background: brief review of the literature -- Occupational health surveillance -- Discussion and conclusions -- Recommendations. -- References -- Appendix A: Critical Aspects of an Occupational Medical Screening Program -- Appendix B: OSHA standards that include requirements for medical surveillance -- Appendix C: Hazards for which NIOSH has recommended the use of medical surveillance -- Appendix D: Discussion of occupational health surveillance programs with medical screening. -- Appendix E: Examples of limitations in the evidence base for specific medical screening of workers exposed to engineered nanoparticles -- Appendix F: Exposure registries. |
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"The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has recommended prudent precautionary interim measures for reducing work-related exposures and assessing potential risk. In the hierarchy of prevention, it is important to consider where it may be of value to provide medical screening of workers who may be exposed to a potential health hazard, but who may be asymptomatic--that is, who have no identifiable symptom of an occupational disease. On the frontiers of nanotechnology, where as yet little data exist for assessing risk with confidence, it is difficult to recommend specific screening tests. NIOSH has sought a wide range of opinions on the matter and along with its own review of the scientific literature presents this interim guidance for medical screening and hazard surveillance. The evidence base on the health effects of engineered nanoparticles is rapidly growing and NIOSH will continue to monitor and assess it and will update those recommendations as more definitive information becomes available"--Page iii. |
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Nanoparticles -- Health aspects.
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Nanoparticles -- Safety measures.
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Nanotechnology -- Health aspects.
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Nanotechnology -- Safety measures.
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Environmental Monitoring. |
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Nanoparticles -- adverse effects. |
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Occupational Exposure -- adverse effects. |
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Occupational Exposure -- prevention & control. |
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Population Surveillance -- methods. |
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Safety Management -- methods. |
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Trout, Douglas, author.
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Zumwalde, Ralph D., author.
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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, issuing body.
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NIOSH Nanotechnology Research Center, sponsoring body.
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| Running Title |
Medical screening of workers |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Interim guidance for medical screening and hazard surveillance for workers potentially exposed to engineered nanoparticles. (OCoLC)325330958 |
| Gpo Item No. |
0499-F-08 (online) |
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HE 20.7115:60 |
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