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Occupational hazard in Malaysian traffic police: special focus on air pollutants

Reviews on Environmental Health, 2021
Abstract This paper provides a specific deliberation on occupational hazards confronted daily by Malaysian Traffic Police. Traffic police is a high-risk occupation that involves a wide range of tasks and, indirectly, faced with an equally wide variety of hazards at work namely, physical, biological, psychosocial, chemical, and ergonomic ...
Mohamad Jamil, Putri Anis Syahira, Karuppiah, Karmegam, Rasdi, Irniza, How, Vivien, Mohd Tamrin, Shamsul Bahri, K. C. Mani, Kulanthayan, Sambasivam, Sivasankar, Sadeghi Naeini, Hassan, Mohammad Yusof, Nur Athirah Diyana, Hashim, Nurul Maizura   +9 more
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Occupational and environmental impacts of indoor air pollutant for different occupancy: a review

Toxicology and Environmental Health Sciences, 2021
Since an average human spends most of the time indoors (ranging from 85% to 90%), the understanding about ambient environment is very important. The indoor environment is majorly polluted from the indoor air pollutants like volatile organic carbon (VOC), semi-volatile organic carbon (SVOC), particulate matter, ozone, oxides of carbon and sulphur, heavy
Abhishek Nandan, N. A. Siddiqui, Chandrakant Singh, Ashish Aeri   +3 more
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Inflammatory markers and exposure to occupational air pollutants

Inhalation Toxicology, 2010
To study the possible relationship between inhalation of airborne particles in the work environment and inflammatory markers in blood.Total dust was sampled in the breathing zone of 73 subjects working with welding, cutting, grinding and in foundries such as iron, aluminium, and concrete.
Carl-Göran, Ohlson, Peter, Berg, Ing-Liss, Bryngelsson, Karine, Elihn, Yen, Ngo, Håkan, Westberg, Bengt, Sjögren   +6 more
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Health and Air Pollution. The Effect of Occupation Mix

The Swedish Journal of Economics, 1971
The 1960 mortality rates for 117 U.S. cities are analyzed to isolate the effect of air pollution. Socioeconomic factors such as race, income, population density, and age mix are accounted for. In previous studies we reported the effect of different functional forms and of adding additional explanatory variables for type of home heating equipment, home ...
Lave, Lester B., Seskin, Eugene P.
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Air pollution and occupational accidents in the Community of Madrid, Spain

International Journal of Biometeorology, 2020
Spain is the EU member country with the third highest total number of accidents in work and has the third highest incidence rate. We have performed a descriptive analysis of occupational accidents in the Community of Madrid (Spain) between 2005 and 2013 to study the impact of air quality on the prevalence of occupational accidents, clarifying how ...
Luis Vega-Calderón, Ricardo Almendra, Pablo Fdez-Arroyabe, María T. Zarrabeitia, Ana Santurtún   +4 more
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Occupational Health and Air Pollution Research in Canada's Changing Economy

American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal, 1963
Abstract In terms of numbers of people employed and volume of production, industry in Canada has increased greatly in recent years. Occupational health programs have kept abreast of new hazards in the industrial environment so the health status of workers has improved.
M, KATZ, W L, BALL
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Asthma Related to Occupational and Ambient Air Pollutants in Nonsmokers

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 1993
We attempted to determine the association between occupational and air pollutant exposure with the development of adult asthma through the analysis of a standardized respiratory questionnaire administered to a cohort of 3914 nonsmoking adults in 1977 and again in 1987.
J R, Greer, D E, Abbey, R J, Burchette
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AN OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH APPROACH TO ANAESTHETIC AIR POLLUTION

Medical Journal of Australia, 1962
The principles of occupational health practice as applicable to operating theatre staff are stated. Operating theatre air was samples for halothane at three Sydney hospitals--one in which a scavenging system was in operation and two without such a system.
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Evaluating the use of occupational standards for controlling toxic air pollutants

Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part B, 1984
Currently, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has established air standards for relatively few chemicals. As a result, state agencies are faced with controlling air contaminants for a large number of chemicals posing potential public health threats.
C A, Rowan, W M, Connolly, H S, Brown
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