Occupational driving risks are currently run by 1 in every 4 employees, but the numbers of workers running such risks are expanding rapidly in the service trades, in particular in the courier activity sector that currently employs over 200,000…
Skin protection is essential, but the efficacy of protective materials is limited. No polymer protective material constitutes a universal rampart against all chemical substances. In the working world, users of chemicals and occupational safety…
This work is part of an initiative to prevent risks for asphalt workers of dermal exposure to toxic substances present in bitumen. An iterative method was developed, based on both an ergotoxicological approach and on the combining of observations…
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Over 60,000 welders in France are exposed to welding fumes containing metals and metal oxides. The concentrations often exceed the occupational exposure limit value, even in the presence of a ventilation-type…
The risks associated with crossing pedestrians, vehicles and machines are sometimes underestimated by the different actors of the company, because they are part of a daily work that contributes to trivialize them. Observations and activity…
The high deposition rates and high temperatures implemented in semi-automatic welding lead to high fume emissions. Such emissions being classified as Group 2B, "possibly carcinogenic" by the IARC, prompts implementation of local collection…