International
Review of Surveillance and Control of Workplace Exposures
The RFP was issued by the National
Occupational Health and Safety Commission, Canberra. The closing date
for applications was the 17th February 2005.
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
- the differing categories of exposures noted below,
- the possible types of surveillance methods available, and
- 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
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