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“Fortunately, work-related asthma can often be prevented or controlled by reducing or eliminating exposure to asthma triggers. We hope this new video helps to shed some light on the importance of protecting workers from exposure to allergens, respiratory irritants, and known asthma ...
Throughout the United States, asthma caused 5.8 million physician office visits and 1.6 million emergency department visits as recently as 2021. Tragically, there were also 4,145 deaths due to asthma the year before. These figures point to the toll asthma has on individuals and families, as well as lost time in classrooms, decreased productivity in the workplace and the tremendous medical costs ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced in late October that it had lowered the blood lead reference value (BLRV) for children in response to Lead Exposure Prevention and Advisory Committee (LEPAC) recommendations. The BLRV is now 3.5 µg/dL, down from the previous 5 µg/dL. ...
As an example, inhalation exposure to something as basic as flour dust can cause a condition known as baker’s asthma. ...
Work-related asthma results from exposure to allergens or irritants on the job. Exposure to these substances can lead to new cases of asthma or worsen existing asthma in some people. ...
Even worse, the smell of a strong perfume or fragrance could trigger an asthma attack for some people with the condition. Controlling exposure to these odors in the home is often manageable, but for some asthmatics, exposure to asthma triggers such as perfumes and fragrances, is much harder to control in the work environment. Work-related asthma, also known as ...
Their newest production discusses how exposures to perfumes and fragrances in the work environment could aggravate some people’s existing asthma or perhaps even lead to new cases. “The California Work-Related Asthma Prevention Program (WRAPP) has published information for employers and workers about occupational exposures to ...
Preliminary observations from the first health exam indicated that clean-up workers were about 30 percent more likely to have moderate to severe depression than residents who did no clean-up work. ...
On Wednesday 29th February the European Chemicals Agency published the Community Rolling Action Plan (CoRAP), a list of chemical substances to be evaluated over a period of three years in order to determine whether policy measures are needed to adequately manage consumer and worker exposure. Formaldehyde was included in the Community Rolling Action Plan for ...
EPA is proposing to apply these exposure-based factors as triggers for SNUR reporting. Accordingly, following promulgation, planned use of such chemicals in a consumer product or exposure that is reasonably likely to involve 1,000 or more workers at a single corporate entity (which is defined as the aggregate of all of the domestic facilities ...
EPA is proposing to apply these exposure-based factors as triggers for SNUR reporting. Accordingly, following promulgation, planned use of such chemicals in a consumer product or exposure that is reasonably likely to involve 1,000 or more workers at a single corporate entity (which is defined as the aggregate of all of the domestic facilities ...
Thousands of workers each year become ill or even die from exposure to materials such as asbestos fibers, plant dusts and fibers, silica dust and beryllium powders that have become airborne and are subsequently inhaled by unprotected workers. ...