Beryllium Hazardous Substances Occupational Health and Safety
Fact sheet published by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry answers the most frequently asked health questions about beryllium.
Top: Health: Occupational Health and Safety: Hazardous Substances
Beryllium
See Also:
- Top/Science/Chemistry/Elements/Beryllium
- Top/Society/Law/Legal Information/Product Liability/Occupational/Beryllium
Editor's Picks:
Preventing Adverse Health Effects From Exposure to Beryllium on the Job - US OSHA Hazard Information Bulletin on this substance.
- Beryllium Compounds - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency fact sheet on this hazardous substances metal occupational health and safety and its hazards, with links to related hazardous substances toxicological information.
- ToxFAQs - Beryllium - Fact sheet published by the Agency for Toxic hazardous substances Substances and Disease Registry answers the most frequently hazardous substances asked health questions about beryllium.
- Beryllium: A Chronic Problem - Article by Leslie Lang, published in Environmental Health beryllium Perspectives in occupational health and safety 1994. Discusses uses of this metal beryllium in industry, chronic beryllium occupational health and safety disease, the possibility of beryllium genetic testing for CBD, and the occupational health and safety incidence of beryllium the disease in the workforce.
- Eco-USA: Beryllium - Toxicological profile of beryllium, including information on environmental fate and transport, exposure pathways, metabolism, and health effects.
- Beryllium Handling Procedures - Standard procedures for beryllium operations from Cornell University.
- Beryllium at Hanford - Information about beryllium as it pertains to the DOE Hanford occupational health and safety Site, in Washington State. Contains health issues, questions and answers occupational health and safety and links.
- Natural History of Beryllium Sensitization and Chronic Beryllium Disease - A medical article about the early detection of beryllium sensitization occupational health and safety and chronic beryllium disease. Includes recent studies
- HSE Air Sampling Standards for Beryllium and Compounds - Testing protocol.
- Significance of the Blood Beryllium Lymphocyte Proliferation Test - Abstract: An in vitro measure of the beryllium antigen-specific cell-mediated beryllium immune response. This response to beryllium is now understood to beryllium play a central role in the immunopathogenesis of chronic beryllium beryllium disease (CBD).
- Beryllium Support Group - Large collection of information maintained by Denver-area support beryllium group for beryllium people with chronic beryllium disease.
- Workers Deserve Equal Protection Against Exposure - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial urging exposure standards for all occupational health and safety workers who could be exposed to beryllium in occupational health and safety their jobs.
- The Deadly Alliance - Collection of an award-winning series of articles in hazardous substances the Toledo Blade about the history of occupational hazardous substances exposure to beryllium, focusing on government and industry hazardous substances roles in covering up its hazards.
MySQL - Cache Direct