International Review of Surveillance and Control of Workplace Exposures
The main objective of the review is to provide a thorough and critical review of methods and systems used
for the surveillance and control of workplace exposures
The review will examine a matrix of surveillance systems taking into account
- (a) the differing categories of exposures noted below,
- (b) the possible types of surveillance methods available, and
- (c) the disease and injury groups of interest.
a) Hazard Category:
- Chemical hazards
- Physical hazards
- Biological hazards
- Psychological hazards
- Other hazards
b) Surveillance method
- routine surveillance systems
- comprehensive surveillance systems
- workforce systems (labour force surveys)
- exposure databases
- registers of substances
- industry surveillance systems
- relevant population surveillance systems
- other
c) Priority attention is to be given to exposures that result in the following (but not limited to) occupational diseases and injuries:
- respiratory diseases
- occupational cancers
- contact dermatitis
- infectious and parasitic diseases
- cardiovascular diseases
- musculoskeletal disorders
- mental or neuropsychiatric disorders
- noise induced hearing loss
It is expected that the final
report will be released in July 2006.
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