Estimates of risk accumulated over a working lifetime are used to assess the significance of many workplace health hazards. Utilizing data from the National Traumatic Occupational Fatalities (NTOF) surveillance system, estimates of the risk of work-related fatal injuries are provided for the 50 indu
Occupational injuries and work experience
โ Scribed by W.Monroe Keyserling
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1983
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 621 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-4375
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