Managing health effects of beryllium exposure
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Beryllium Alloy Exposures.; National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Toxicology.; National Resear
- ناشر : Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2008
- شابک / ISBN : 9780309125321
Description
Introduction -- Exposure assessment -- Epidemiologic and clinical studies of beryllium sensitization and chronic beryllium disease -- Mechanisms, genetic factors, and animal models of chronic beryllium disease -- Genotoxicity and carcinogenicity -- Assessment of other health end points -- Designing a beryllium exposure-and disease- management program for workers in the air force -- Appendixes: A. Biographic information on the committee on beryllium alloy exposures B. Air force beryllium program clinical decision logic.
Beryllium and its alloys can be found in many important technologies in the defense and aeronautics industries. This book, requested by the US Air Force to help to determine the steps necessary to protect its workforce from the effects of beryllium, outlines an exposure and disease management program for protecting its workers.
