... Session No. 508 A Real and Present Danger: The Underestimated Impact of Workplace Carcinogens Connie Muncy, CIH, CUSP, REM, MS Senior Health and Safety Administrator The AES Corporation Dayton, Ohio Introduction Worldwide, workplace cancer prevention has a much lower profile than workplace injury...

... are the "big 3" diseases: cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes. These three diseases inevitably shorten an average person's life span or seriously degrade the quality of life. America is aging at an unprecedented rate, while physical fitness is declining at all ages. As of the year 2010, over 25...

... Worldwide, there are 13 million new cases of cancer and 7.6 million deaths every year. Nearly two thirds of these deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. A large proportion of all cancers are due to exposure to carcinogens in the environment or workplace. Around 8,000 deaths...

.... It is important to understand that the overall health of workers has several determinants, including risk factors at the workplace leading to cancers, accidents, musculoskeletal diseases MSDs), respiratory diseases, hearing loss, circulatory diseases, stress-related disorders, obesity, communicable diseases...

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... hazard regulation significant improvement cancer EHS program Session No. 655 Health Education and Wellness for EHS Practitioners! Jonathan Klane, M.S.Ed., CIH, CHMM, CET Klane s Education Information Training Hub SM Fairfield, Maine In environmental health and safety we use and apply a variety...

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... exhaust be regarded as a potential carcinogen and controlled to the lowest feasible exposure level. In its bulletin NIOSH concluded that, although the excess risk of cancer in diesel-exhaust exposed workers has not been quantitatively estimated, it is logical to assume that reductions in exposure...

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