5 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2015
From Awareness to Action: The Community of Sarnia Mobilizes to Protect its Workers from Occupational Disease
…workers came mainly from two companies, the Holmes Foundry and Fiberglas Canada. Almost every respondent said publicity focused on asbestos alone rather than on workplace carcinogens in general. Labor activists said that, through the occupational clinic…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
How to Judge Safety Crime: Lessons From the Eternit Asbestos Maxi-Trials
…illness was caused by it. The author also cited epidemiological evidence that male Casale Monferrato workers were 545 times more likely to die of asbestosis than the general male population of Piedmont. The author concluded that…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1999
Industrial hygiene review of three manufacturing facilities in Senegal: findings and key questions
…name the type of asbestos used. Average noise levels were above 93 dBA. General dust levels averaged approximately 2.5 milligrams per cubic meter, against a background of about 0.1. Respiratory protection was mostly dust…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
The four most pernicious myths in asbestos litigation: Part I: safe chrysotile and idiopathic mesothelioma
…data on a Connecticut friction-products factory cohort. On idiopathic mesothelioma, the author cited reviews of historical autopsy records at Massachusetts General Hospital and Mount Sinai Hospital. The author concluded that virtually all, if not all…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Managing asbestos in Italy: twenty years after the ban
…estimated to be 80 percent of the quantity existing in 1992, may still be the cause of negative effects to the health of workers and the general population. The so called "asbestos way-out" at this…