Expert Forecast on Emerging Biological Risks Related to Occupational Safety and Health
Expert Forecast on Emerging Biological Risks Related to Occupational Safety and Health

Author: Emmanuelle Brun

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13:

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About 320,000 workers worldwide die every year of communicable diseases, with about 5,000 in the EU area. In the last decade, media coverage has raised public awareness of biological hazards, such as anthrax at work due to bioterrorist activities, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and the threat of avian flu. But biological agents are ubiquitous and, in many workplaces, workers face considerably harmful biological risks. The Community strategy 2002-06 called on the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work to set up a risk observatory to anticipate new and emerging risks. This report, the second forecast of emerging risks carried out in this context, sets out the results of the forecast on emerging biological risks and the occupational health & safety risks involved.

Expert Forecast on Emerging Chemical Risks Related to Occupational Safety and Health
Expert Forecast on Emerging Chemical Risks Related to Occupational Safety and Health

Author: Emmanuelle Brun

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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The Community strategy on heath and safety at work 2002-2006 called on the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work to set up a risk observatory to anticipate new and emerging risks. Within this context, a series of four expert forecasts were formulated with the aim of providing as comprehensive as possible a picture of the potential emerging risks in the world of work. Three reports on emerging physical risks, biological risks and psychosocial risks have already been published. This publication (the last one of the series) presents the results of the forecast on emerging chemical risks related to occupational safety and health based on an expert survey and a literature review.

Management of Emerging Public Health Issues and Risks
Management of Emerging Public Health Issues and Risks

Author: Benoit Roig

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2018-11-13

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 0128132914

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Management of Emerging Public Health Issues and Risks: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Changing Environment addresses the threats facing the rapidly changing world and provides guidance on how to manage risks to population health. Unlike conventional and recognized risks (major, industrial, and natural), emerging risks are characterized by low or non-existent scientific knowledge, high levels of uncertainty, and different levels of acceptability by the relevant authorities and exposed populations. Emerging risk must be analyzed through multiple and crossed approaches identifying the phenomenon linked to the emergence of risk but also by combining scientific, policy and social data in order to provide more enlightened decision making. Management of Emerging Public Health Issues and Risks: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Changing Environment provides examples of transdisciplinary approaches used to characterize, analyze, and manage emerging risks. This book will be useful for public health researchers, policy makers, and students as well as those working in emergency management, risk management, security, environmental health, nanomaterials, and food science. - Presents emerging risks from the technological, environmental, health, and energy sectors, as well as their social impacts - Contextualizes emerging risks as new threats, existing threats in new locations, and known issues, which are newly recognized as risks due to increased scientific knowledge - Includes case studies from around the world to reinforce concepts

Advances in Safety Management and Human Performance
Advances in Safety Management and Human Performance

Author: Pedro M. Arezes

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-06-30

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 303050946X

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This book brings together studies broadly addressing human error and safety management from the perspectives of various disciplines, and shares the latest findings on ensuring employees’ safety, health, and welfare at work. It combines a diverse range of disciplines – e.g. work physiology, health informatics, safety engineering, workplace design, injury prevention, and occupational psychology – and presents new strategies for safety management, including accident prevention methods such as performance testing and participatory ergonomics. It reports on cutting-edge methods and findings concerning safety-critical systems, defense, and security, and discusses advanced topics regarding human performance, human variability, and reliability analysis; medical, driver and pilot error, as well as automation error; and cognitive modeling of human error. Further, it highlights cutting-edge applications in safety management, defense, security, transportation, process controls, and medicine. Gathering the proceedings of the AHFE 2020 International Conference on Safety Management and Human Factors and the AHFE 2020 Virtual Conference on Human Error, Reliability, Resilience, and Performance, held on July 16–20, 2020, USA, the book offers an extensive, timely, and multidisciplinary guide for researchers and practitioners dealing with safety management and human error.

Bioethanol Technologies
Bioethanol Technologies

Author: Freddie Inambao

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2021-09-01

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 1839683937

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Bioethanol Technologies explores the conceptual and methodological approaches for understanding bioethanol technologies and future perspectives. The book comprehensively covers the global scenario of ethanol production from both food and non-food crops and other sources. This book is a useful resource for those involved with biofuels in general and bioethanol in particular, including energy engineers, researchers, consultants, analysts, policy makers, and professionals in the industry supply chain. This book: • Reviews the most significant research findings in both ethanol production and utilization; • Presents technological interventions in ethanol production, from plant biomass to food crops; • Offers a foresight analysis on the perspectives of bioethanol as a global commodity; • Presents a complete overview of the main challenges that bioenergy will have to overcome in order to play a key role in future energy systems; • Presents necessary Occupational Health and Safety (OH

Handbook of Occupational Dermatoses
Handbook of Occupational Dermatoses

Author: Ana M. Giménez-Arnau

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-03-23

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 3031227271

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This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the variety of skin issues that can arise while at work. It is meant to guide dermatologists, allergists, and industrial physicians in the successful diagnostic and management of the patients suffering from occupational skin dermatoses. It provides a look at the current modes of treatment available to practicing physicians while also offering updates on the most recent changes and advances for easy integration into practice. With an depth look at some of the more common diseases, like various urticaria and eczema as well as examining specific work places prone to exposure, this book will provide a quick and easy-to-use reference. Chapters contain patient photos and offer a multidisciplinary approach with special chapters on medical legal implications as well as exploring the minimum standards on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment as viewed worldwide. Handbook of Occupational Dermatoses is a must-have resource for dermatologists, allergists, and primary care physicians that deal with these skin issues everyday.

Bioaerosols Emission from Anthropogenic Sources
Bioaerosols Emission from Anthropogenic Sources

Author: Nitin Kumar Singh

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2023-09-14

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0443153205

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Bioaerosols Emission from Anthropogenic Sources: Influencing Factors, Microbial Diversity, Epidemiological Threats, and Control Approaches covers various sources of biohazards and their associated risk factors. These air contaminants are developing concerns to people and the environment and must be addressed to avert future dangers. As little is known about their precise sources, controlling variables, microbial diversity, the involvement of co-pollutants, and dispersion and control methods, this book will assist stakeholders, including the public, government officials, and policymakers in developing successful strategies for ensuring society's safety. - Identifies potential emission stages at different anthropogenic sources of bioaerosols - Discusses characteristics, fate and development of effective control strategies for minimizing exposure to site specific bioaerosols - Presents cleaner production and sustainable development tactics of bioaerosols

Facts
Facts

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 20

ISBN-13:

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