The assessment of Health Risk to Occupationally Exposed Navy Personnel: A Consideration of Issues

Autor: Warren W. Jederberg, John F. Risher, Robert L. Carpenter
Rok vydání: 1995
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Zdroj: Inhalation Toxicology. 7:983-1003
ISSN: 1091-7691
0895-8378
Popis: Occupational exposures of Naval personnel to toxic chemicals and other substances occur continually by virtue of their jobs and the mission of the Navy. Such exposures are similar to, yet in many respects distinct from, either occupational exposures of civilian workers or environmental exposures of the general population. Primary dissimilarities may include the duration of exposure, the intermittent nature of exposure, and the age, health, and physical condition of the exposed population. Although the length of individual exposures may be similar, the cumulative time in which a worker is exposed is likely to be different. Any exposures at a given duty station are often intermittent, with prolonged (days or months) exposure-free periods in between. The Navy, therefore, is faced with developing an occupational risk assessment paradigm specific to, and appropriate for, the types of occupational exposures experienced by Navy personnel in the performance of shipboard or other duties. Acceptable risk mu...
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