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The sectors and channels for treating Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) have changed considerably in recent years due to the regulatory context and to the development of new technologies. In…

Toluene is widely used in industry, with an annual consumption close to 20 million tons. Occupational exposure to toluene is commonly assessed using hippuric acid and ortho-cresol despite their low specificity and poor sensitivity. Levels…

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Working under time constraints is particularly difficult for ageing workers. “Leeway” or “room for manoeuvre” may enable regulation strategies to be put in place or production contingencies to be coped with more…

The road haulage and logistics sector is of prime importance for the French economy. It is subjected to intense competitive pressures, and to ongoing modification of the socio-economic and regulatory context. These constraints are leading…

In all human movements, in particular those related to work activities, variability is observed. Even for a repetitive task, trajectories, muscular activities, or exerted forces are never identical, both for different people and for the same person…

Although in recent years, the balance has swung away from industry and farming towards services, the proportion of workers who have to do physically arduous work remains large. In work having high physical demands, maintaining physical functional…

Among musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) of the upper limb, work-related degenerative injuries to the tendons of the rotator cuff muscles, which stabilise the shoulder, are frequent, and particularly costly and disabling. Going back to work after…

1. Toluene (TOL) is a CMR solvent which is metabolized via the glutathione pathway, producing benzylmercapturic, o-, m- and p-toluylmercapturic acids (MAs). These metabolites could be useful as biomarkers of TOL exposure.
2. The aims of this work were…