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- Institut National de Recherche et de Sécurité (INRS)
The French "Institut National de Recherche et de Sécurité "(National Institute for Research and Safety) plays a part in the prevention of industrial injuries and occupational diseases for the promoti
 - Fibrecount
Fibrecount is an independent environmental lab consulting organisation for asbestos. You can find information on asbestos as well as on chemical materials, the different uses of asbestos, the consequ
- Asbestos : Towards a Worldwide Ban
The purpose of this brochure of ISSA's Special Commission on Prevention is to remind the reader that whilst asbestos may still be seen as a "miracle mineral", it is above all a time bomb and the moment has now come to ban it once and for all. The brochure seeks to alert decision-makers and all the social partners of the devastating consequences, both human and economic, which any short-termist policy would bring in the decades ahead. It thus provides some useful information about the origin, pr
- SLIC European Asbestos Campaign 2006
Following the Dresden Declaration at the asbestos conference in 2003, the Senior Labour Inspectors' Committee (SLIC) took the initiative for a common Europe-wide Campaign in order to increase the attention to health and safety when dealing with built-in asbestos. This initiative is supported by the European Commission and will be carried out in cooperation between SLIC and the Advisory Committee on Safety and Health at Work (ACSH). The main focus of the campaign is on the protection of workers
- Asbestos. Polyvalent but dangerous.
A brochure, available in Dutch and French, on asbestos. Edited by the Belgian DG Environment.
- Institut National de la Santé et de Recherche Médicale (INSERM)
The information is provided by the Information and communication department. The website presents a wide variety of bibliographic and technical information. It offers links to biomedical servers. Thr
 - Department of Health Website
COC is a committee of the Health department advising governmental departments about carcinogenic chemical substances such as pesticides or pharmaceutical agents. COC consists of a panel of independen
- Comité Anti Amiante Jussieu
The page of the Anti-asbestos Committee of Jussieu contains some useful links to information about asbestos, the regulations, press articles, etc.
- Washington State Department of Labor and Industries - Workplace Safety & Health
The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries site has much to offer. Official documents about ergonomics can be found on the site, as can evaluation tools such as an Ergonomics Lifting Cal
- Division of Occupational Safety & Health of the Californian OSHA (DOSH)
The DOSH website aims to provide visitors with fast, high-quality information about occupational safety and health. Various topics and sectors are covered. These include general information about occ
- Instituto Nazionale del Assicurazione contro gli Infortuni sul Lavoro
The National Institute for Insurance against Accidents at Work has two objectives: to reduce the number of accidents at work, and to create a form of umbrella organisation relating to occupational ha
- APSAM
APSAM (l'Association paritaire pour la santé et la sécurité du travail, secteur “affaires municipales”/ the Joint Association for Health and Safety at Work, local government section), exists to fac
- American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
This American trade union site has a separate Safety and Health section which looks at various aspects of this issue, such as ergonomics, women at work and new legislation. Considerable attention is
- New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOS)
NYCOSH consists of some 200 local unions and over 400 individual employers, occupational doctors, lawyers and other safety and health workers. The site offers a vast mass of information on every poss
- Environmental Health and Safety at the Oklahoma State University
The Department of Environmental Health and Safety at the Oklahoma State University is an inexhaustible source of information. On the site can be found a large quantity of information that is either a
- World Health Organization (WHO) - Regional Office for Europe : pamphlets
The World Health Organization publishes brochures for the public on various topics. Some of these are also relevant to health in the workplace. Thus, there are brochures about noise (noise and health
- ASER Instrumente für die Bewertung und Gestaltung von Arbeit
The ASER - an Institute by the Wuppertal University - provides the following tools, in the fields of work evaluation and work organization: Management system : Belastungs-Dokumentations-System (BDS) VDU work : Bildschirm-Fragebogen (BiFra) Manual handling : Heben und tragen Rechner, Leitmerkmal-Methode Work charge : Arbeitsenergieumsatz Climate : Klima-Rechner, Klima und Arbeitsschwere Noise : Lärm - Beurteilungspegel - Berechnung nach BGV B 3 Vibrations : Schwingungen - Berechnung der Beurteil
- Victorian WorkCover Authority
The Victorian Workcover Authority site has a section reserved for small and medium-sized companies: the Small Business Safety Program. The site contains instruments for risk evaluation, checklists fo
- Boston University School of Public Health - Photo Gallery
The mission of this department of environment and health is to give a human dimension to all the problems that people can encounter in the domain of environmental and occupational health. On this sit
 - Environmental Hazards.com
This site is managed by Restoration Environmental Contractors (REC), a Canadian organisation which provides decontamination, disinfecting, and cleaning services: asbestos abatement; lead abatement; a
- L'amiante
The site contains three main parts: information, identification and evaluation. You can search for the French and international regulations concerning asbestos, the evaluation methods, the results of
- L'amiante dans l'environnement de l'homme
Here, you can find the complete French senate report about the consequences of asbestos for the public health and the environment.
- Institut de Santé Publique, d'Epidémiologie et de Développement (ISPED)
The website of the French Institute for Public Health, Epidemiology and Development depends of the University of Bordeaux. You may find some interesting references of research institutions. You can c
- Affaires Sanitaires et Sociales des Deux-Sèvres
On the homepage of the County Management of Sanitary and Social Affairs of the Deux-Sèvres, you can link to different environmental and health themes such as the management of waste, asbestos situati
- Landesinstitut für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin Potsdam
The "Landesinstitut für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin Potsdam" (National Institute for Occupational accidents and medicine in Potsdam) is an institute inside the Ministry of Labor, Health and Soci
- Office of Environmental Health and Safety of the University of Virginia
IEach section contains links to software or interesting documents on the subject. Topics are illustrated with drawings and photos. Examples are given of dos and don’ts.
- Trades Union Congress (TUC)
The site of the United Kingdom trade union organisation, the TUC, has a separate section on Safety and Health, featuring news in the field. The Risks e-bulletin is sent out to interested parties via
- Asbestos
The information on the website will be of particular interest to employers, asbestos contractors and others with duties under asbestos regulations, together with those workers currently at greatest risk from exposure to asbestos. Themes : information and guidance; asbestos in the home; enforcement; introduction to asbestos for employees; the duty to manage asbestos; licensing and application process; asbestos essentials.
- British Asbestos Newsletter
The British Asbestos Newsletter is a quarterly publication which is distributed to victim support groups, public bodies, lawyers, solicitors, barristers, researchers, doctors, academics and environmentalists in over thirty countries. Initially the focus of our articles was on asbestos-related news in Britain but latterly European, Australian and international events have been covered. The deciding factor is that all stories contribute something towards the understanding of asbestos-related topi
- Asbestos Information Centre Ltd
The Asbestos Information Centre (AIC) is an independent organisation that provides advice to the general public and others on managing asbestos containing products in buildings to keep the fibre release to the minimum.
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