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Expert forecast on Emerging Biological Risks related to Occupational Safety and Health
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- Table of contents
- Foreword
- Executive summary
- 1. Introduction
- + 2. Methodology
- + 3. Expert participation
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4. Main emerging biological risks identified
- 4.1. Survey results
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4.2. Literature reviews
- 4.2.1. Occupational risks related to global epidemics
- 4.2.2. Workers' exposure to antimicrobical-resistant pathogens in the health care sector and livestock industry
- 4.2.3. Occupational exposure to endotoxins
- 4.2.4. Moulds in indoor workplaces
- 4.2.5. Biological risks in the magement of solid wasted
- 4.2.6. Difficult risk assesment of biological agents in the workplace
- + 5. Complete results of the survey
- 6. Conclusion
- + Annexes
About 320,000 workers worldwide die every year of communicable diseases, some 5,000 in the European Union. In the last decade, media coverage has raised public awareness of biological hazards, such as anthrax at work due to bioterrorist activities, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and the threat of avian flu. But biological agents are ubiquitous and, in many workplaces, workers face considerably harmful biological risks. The Community strategy 2002-06 called on the Agency to 'set up a risk observatory' to 'anticipate new and emerging risks'. This report sets out to present the results of the forecast on emerging OSH biological risks, which is the second forecast of emerging risks carried out in this context.
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Authors
European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, Centre Risk Observatory
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Publication year : 2007
License: All rights reserved ©
Times read: 5
