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CISDOC database
| Document ID (ISN) | 36583 |
| CIS number |
81-1946 |
| Year |
1981 |
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| Author(s) |
Nicholson W.J. |
| Title |
Management of assessed risk for carcinogens |
| Bibliographic information |
New York Academy of Sciences, 2 East 63 Street, New York, N.Y. 10021, USA, Apr. 1981, Vol.363. 301p. Illus. 334 ref. |
| Abstract |
The 29 papers presented at this workshop, 17-19 Mar. 1980, New York, USA, are reproduced. Topics covered included the determination, assessment and regulation of risk due to occupational and environmental exposure to carcinogens. Topics of particular OSH interest included: regulation and the existing law in relation to occupational exposure; risk-benefit and cost-benefit analysis and the problems associated with these approaches; a practical cancer policy; determination of acceptable and unreasonable risk; compensation for occupational illness; approaches to these problems in Norway, Sweden, Canada and the USA. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
hazard evaluation; carcinogens |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
compensation of occupational diseases; Sweden; Norway; Canada; USA; neoplasms; limitation of exposure; legislation; conference; role of management; cost of safety |
| Document type |
E - Books, reports, proceedings |
| Subject(s) |
Toxic and dangerous substances
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| Browse category(ies) |
Risk evaluation
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