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CISDOC database
| Document ID (ISN) | 28577 |
| CIS number |
78-203 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
0301-0023 - Journal of the Society of Occupational Medicine |
| Year |
1977 |
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| Author(s) |
Smith D.M. |
| Title |
Health care of people at work - Agricultural workers |
| Bibliographic information |
July 1977, Vol.27, No.3, p.87-92. 8 ref. |
| Abstract |
A broad review of the medical situation of agricultural workers, covering: physical hazards (heat, cold, noise, vibration); infections; health supervision, legislation (United Kingdom); pesticides safety precautions scheme; special groups of workers (employing dinitro, organophosphorus, and organochlorine compounds, organic and inorganic mercurials, bipyridylium compounds, nicotine used as insecticide, inorganic chlorates, triazine herbicides, fumigants, arsenic, nitrogen oxides, etc.); problems of casual workers, etc. Full reporting and investigation of all cases of occupational diseases is called for. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
United Kingdom; medical supervision; agriculture |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
herbicides; noise; vibration; nitrogen oxides; zoonoses; information of personnel; insecticides; fumigants; legislation; microclimate; round-up; pesticides |
| Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
| Subject(s) |
Agriculture, fishing, animal husbandry
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| Browse category(ies) |
Zoonoses
Agriculture
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