Sentence examples for medical surveillance program from inspiring English sources
Designing a medical surveillance program for any category of workers is a difficult task; for hazardous waste workers, it is particularly challenging.
The study comprised 506 workers at 3 M factories in Antwerp, Minnesota and Alabama who took part in a 'fluorochemical medical surveillance program.' PFOA serum concentrations were between 0.007 and 92.0 mg/L.
We first examined the group in 1996/1997 when a statewide medical surveillance program was initiated.
The mean ± SD of cumulative VCM was 1367.5 ± 2209.1 ppm × years in our 139 referents and 1751.5 ± 2564.8 ppm × years in the remaining 504 VCM cohort workers in the medical surveillance program.
For cases, information on the job performed and the corresponding entry/exit dates was obtained from company files; for referents, these data were obtained through the occupational history collected by OHS occupational physicians during the medical surveillance program.
Responding to veterans' concerns and as part of an ongoing medical surveillance program for U.S. military veterans exposed to depleted uranium (DU), biological monitoring of urine uranium (U) concentrations has been carried out by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) since the early 1990s.
Similarly, medical surveillance programs contribute to partially assess occupational risks associated with exposures to HDs by gathering qualitative information from workers (World Health Organization/Pan American Health Organization 2013).
In the past, OSHA has touted its emphasis on voluntary medical surveillance programs and other measures to reduce exposure.
It might indicate that the selection processes and the intensive medical surveillance programs in Germany have a greater effect than the programs in other countries with lower standards (see discussion below).
Because employee participation is voluntary, biomonitoring data from these medical surveillance programs may not have provided an adequate characterization of the distribution of serum PFOS concentrations because of possible non-response bias (Olsen et al. 2003d).
HPT-JT individuals should be managed with a medical surveillance plan [10].
