Knowing the comprehensive history of a job or an employee's occupational exposure is important for determining worker exposures. Changes associated with jobs or job tasks can impact these exposures significantly. Often job descriptions are too general or are inadequate for determining a worker's true occupational exposure history. Collection of detailed task information may be helpful for categorizing worker exposures. This study used data collected annually by personal interview with individual employees between the years of 1988 and 1993 at three separate Refractory Ceramic Fiber (ROF) plants. Initially, over 350 Current Employee Questionnaire (CEO) interviews were evaluated and compiled on a computerized spreadsheet. Tasks were listed for each job title, year, and frequency reported from the interviews and cross-referenced to individual workers. To reduce inter-individual variability, only those interviews for which an individual worker was questioned for two or more years and did not change job titles were used. This reduced the number of CEO interviews to 69.

Featuring the improved format used in the 5th edition, this updated set presents, in logical groupings, comprehensive toxicological data for industrial compounds, including CAS numbers, physical and chemical properties, exposure limits, and biological tolerance values for occupational exposures, making it essential for toxicologists and industrial hygienists. This edition has about 40% new authors who have brought a new and international perspective to interpreting industrial toxicology, and discusses new subjects such as nanotechnology, flavorings and the food industry, reactive chemical control to comprehensive chemical policy, metalworking fluids, and pharmaceuticals.

Providing a concise, yet comprehensive, reference on all aspects of industrial exposures and toxicants; this book aids toxicologists, industrial hygienists, and occupational physicians to investigate workplace health problems. • Updates and expands coverage with new chapters covering regulatory toxicology, toxicity testing, physical hazards, high production volume (HPV) chemicals, and workplace drug use • Includes information on occupational and environmental sources of exposure, mammalian toxicology, industrial hygiene, medical management and ecotoxicology • Retains a succinct chapter format that has become the hallmark for the previous editions • Distils a vast amount of information into one resource for both academics and professionals

Vols. for 1963- include as pt. 2 of the Jan. issue: Medical subject headings.