SAR HS 396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Bioavailability, Personal Protective Equipment, Convenience Sampling

• School: Boston University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: SAR HS 396
• Professor: Bria Dunham

Document Summary

Basis for exposure assessment (ea emerges from ih) Quantifying hazardous exposures: relevant to both public health practice and research. Practice: helps assess potential problems, direct preventive effort, monitor success and check compliance with laws research: quantifies association between exposures and health. Common task of quantifying hazardous exposures but ih has moved beyond just measuring exposures to controlling them. China benzene and sperm study (c-bass) investigates the association between exposure to benzene in the workplace and genetic damage to sperm in tianjin, china. Safety hazards: anything, object substance that can have an adverse impact of a workers safety slippery surfaces risk of trips and falls insufficient emergency egress. Chemical storage posing fire or explosion risk related to safety engineering: moving machinery, unguarded catwalks, moving vehicles. Elevated temperatures and humidity radiation repetitive motion environments that increase musculoskeletal injuries. Chemical hazards from chemicals result from many workplace processes and may be acute or chronic.