Sentences with phrase «between occupational exposure»

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Before joining the Center, he worked as a scientific researcher in the Oregon Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology, studying the links between exposure to environmental toxicants and cancer.

The WHO's argument rests on epidemiological evidence from industrial and occupational exposure, populations that have been exposed to 10 - 1000 times the concentrations of TCDD compared to the general population.4 While admitting the absence of a strong case for the elevation of any specific cancer, they have compiled four major cohort studies to find a 40 percent increased risk for all cancers combined for «highly exposed» workers, the definition of which differed between studies.

While malignant mesothelioma remains an uncommon cancer, its documented three-fold increase in males between 1970 and 1984 can be traced to environmental and occupational exposure.

In reference to criminal prosecution cases, we deal with all types of incidents including falls from height, trench collapses, electrocutions, collisions between plant and collisions between plant and pedestrians, overturning plant, crane collapses, incidents involving machinery and guarding, exposure to noxious gases and legionella cases as well as occupational health cases e.g. Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome.

And The Guardian reminded us about the interplay between health and environment with a report about new evidence in Occupational and Environmental Medicine suggesting a link between fat deposits and raised cortisol levels caused by exposure to traffic noise.