The Medical Surveillance of Asbestos Workers

Lewinsohn, Hilton C.

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“…A paper published in 1972 reviewing workers at the factory on whose data the BOHS standard had been based [Lewinsohn, 1972] [BOHS, 1973b].…”

Section: Some Doubts That Were Raised About the 1968 Standardmentioning

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Revising the British Occupational Hygiene Society Asbestos Standard: 1968–1982

Greenberg

2006

American J Industrial Med

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There was a time in Britain when a learned society might with impunity omit to consult the views of workers or their representatives when making value judgments about their health and safety, but consider it proper to accede to industry's decision as to what hygiene standard it would accept. Health and Safety at Work legislation in 1974, established an organization on which industry and labor were represented, with the onus for recommending hygiene standards. For several years the BOHS Asbestos Sub-Committee continued attempting to reconcile the interests of industry, until finally abandoning hygiene standard setting as its mission.

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“…A paper published in 1972 reviewing workers at the factory on whose data the BOHS standard had been based [Lewinsohn, 1972] [BOHS, 1973b].…”

Section: Some Doubts That Were Raised About the 1968 Standardmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A paper published in 1972 reviewing workers at the factory on whose data the BOHS standard had been based [Lewinsohn, 1972] had suggested to Professor I.J. Selikoff that the 1968 standard was flawed, over and above the methodological infelicities listed by Berry.…”

Section: Some Doubts That Were Raised About the 1968 Standardmentioning

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Revising the British Occupational Hygiene Society Asbestos Standard: 1968–1982

Greenberg

2006

American J Industrial Med

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“…In 1972, the medical officer employed at the asbestos factory from whose data the BOHS standard had been based, published the results of an idiosyncratic follow-up study that he had conducted [Lewinsohn, 1972]. An alternative analysis of the new data, however, concluded that they suggested that the 1968 standard might have grossly underestimated the dangers of chrysotile [Selikoff, 1973].…”

Section: Revision Of the 1968 Bohs Chrysotile Asbestos Standardmentioning

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The British approach to asbestos standard setting: 1898–2000

Greenberg¹

2004

American J Industrial Med

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“…Using these data, a standard was proposed of two fibres between 5 and 100 pm in length per cm' of air. 64 It was predicted that the risk of developing asbestosis to the extent of having the earliest clinical signs (crepitations) would be less than 1 T o for an accumulated exposure of 100 fibreyears per cm' (2 fibres per cm' for 50 years). Subsequent data demonstrated that 11 070 of subjects exposed to fibres in concentrations within the standard developed radiographic evidence of pulmonary fibrosis after 10 to 19 years of exposure.…”

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Pulmonary Asbestosis — An Example of Industrial Diffuse Lung Disease

Musk¹,

Henderson

1984

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine

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This account reviews the clinical and pathological features of asbestosis, with a brief comment on the incidence of asbestosis in workers exposed occupationally to Western Australian crocidolite at Wittenoom Gorge. In keeping with common usage, the term "asbestosis" is restricted to pulmonary parenchymal fibrosis -with or without associated visceral pleural fibrosis -related to inhalation of asbestos fibres, thereby excluding parietal pleural fibrous plaques. The mechanisms underlying the development of the interstitial fibrosis are incompletely understood, but they appear to involve complex interactions of asbestos with alveolar macrophages, fibroblasts, lymphocytes and the complement system. (Aust NZ J Med 1984; 14: 776-784.)

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The Medical Surveillance of Asbestos Workers

Cited by 10 publications

References 24 publications

Revising the British Occupational Hygiene Society Asbestos Standard: 1968–1982

Revising the British Occupational Hygiene Society Asbestos Standard: 1968–1982

The British approach to asbestos standard setting: 1898–2000

Pulmonary Asbestosis — An Example of Industrial Diffuse Lung Disease

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