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A century of occupational health in Milan (1906-2006): images and writings : renewing a century of commitment to a healthy, safe and productive working life, 28th International Congress on occupational health
No full textThe ICOH bibliographic database on the University of Milan, Italy : a new Internet resource in the field of occupational health
No full textRischio professionale e prevenzione nell'industria biotecnologica : revisione della letteratura
No full textBACKGROUND: The biotechnology industry has expanded greatly in the last 20-30 years and has led to a number of applications in different sectors of work, i.e., medical and pharmaceutical, agricultural, chemical, energetic and others. Nowadays hundreds of thousands of workers worldwide are employed in biotechnology plants. Health and safety issues related to such working activities are considered as relevant to workers as well as to the general public. In particular, when compared to traditional biotechnology, modern methods of processing microrganisms have given rise to public concern that they might generate hazards to human beings and to the environment. OBJECTIVES AND METHODS: After summarizing the most important products and fields of application, the paper sets out to detail potential adverse effects for the health of biotechnology workers; in addition, an analysis of the literature highlights the various concepts of primary and secondary prevention. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Along with occupational risk factors common to other working activities (i.e. the well-known physical and chemical hazards), the peculiarity of handling microrganisms and/or different biologic systems may induce infections, immunological alterations or non-infective and non-immunologic toxic reactions in the workers involved The need is emphasized for an accurate risk assessment, careful control by means of the current monitoring strategies and implementation of the confinement measures, taking into account the criteria set by Italian legislation for occupational biological risk. Lastly, attention is focussed on examinations for the medical surveillance of workers at risk
Fundamental Rights and Private Law in the European Union, vol.II: Comparative Analyses of Selected Case Patterns
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La stima dell’impatto dei dispositivi di protezione nella riduzione del rischio in ambito di regolamentazione dei prodotti fitosanitari: dalla teoria alla pratica.
No full textIn Europe, the use of plant protection products is authorised provided the operator risk assessment carried out does not show exposure levels above the health-based triggers. Two models are currently available (German and UK models) to estimate exposure levels of agricultural operators. They consider, among different variables, the use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), based on their capacity to reduce exposure through the application of specific “reduction factors”, derived from laboratory or field studies. Such factors, which date back to ‘90s, could be obsolete, as indicated by recent literature, posing problems on the reliability of current estimates. Therefore, the exposure estimates produced in Europe from 2005 to 2007, for 52 active ingredients in 395 scenarios, have been collected and analysed to check whether the application of recent exposure reduction factors might have an impact on the final outcomes. In some case the exposure levels resulted underestimated, highlighting the problem of operator safety with regard to the use of specific PPE and to an adequate training programme
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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