Health & Safety Executive Information Leaflets
Deakin University - Graduate Program in Occupational Hygiene
BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASES :: Databases with a search facility but typically only includes the citation of teh document (eg. author, date, journal etc.) or an abstract.
Medline - bibliographic database of the US National Library of Medicine
CIS Doc - product of the International Occupational Safety and Health Information Centre (CIS), contains references to key literature on safety and health at work
NIOSH Tic-2 - bibliographic database of all research reports supported in whole or in part by the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
FULL TEXT DATABASES :: Includes all of the information in the document.
General
ILO Encyclopedia - A unique and widely respected reference with approximately 1000 articles and copious illustrations
OSH Answers - database of commonly asked OH&S questions and answers, in plain language, maintained by the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health & Safety
Legislation
AUSTLII - Australaisan Legal Information Institute (Australian workplace relations subset)
LEGOSH - References to more than thousands of laws, regulations and international legal instruments dealing with OH&S matters in approximately 140 countries and international organisations
Chemical and toxicological databases
Toxnet - A cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas. Of particular value is the Hazardous Substances Databank
International Program on Chemical Safety - Inchem - means of a rapid access to internationally peer reviewed information on chemicals commonly used throughoutthe world. It consolidates information from a number of intergovernmental organisations
International Program on Chemical Safety - Intox - Of interest to the hygienist is a databank of consolidated information on toxic agents and the management of toxic exposures.
Chemfinder - resource for finding information on specific chemicals
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) - A US Government agency website with comprehensive reports on a large number of chemcials
MSDS Databases - useful for pure chemicals rather than mixtures (formulated products)
NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards - intended as a source of general industrial hygiene information on several hundred chemicals/classes for workers, employers, and occupational health professionals
Commercial products requiring subscription
Chemwatch
Chem Alert
Infosafe - an advanced database computer system for MSDS management
HSELine - contains over 200,000 references to worldwide information covering all aspects of occupational safety and health, and approximately 2,000 additions are made each year
OSH-ROM - Contains CISDOC, HSELINE, MHIDAS, RILOSH, NIOSHTIC-2, OSHLINE AND MEDLINE OEM
Micromedex TOMES plus
CCOHS - databases from the Canadian Centre for Occupationaal Health & Safety
OSH Update - contains ten bibliographic databases from worldwide authorative sources
ELECTRONIC TOOLS :: Tools for converting measurment units, calculating and illustrating composit measures such as WBGT, chemical reactivity guides, clothing and glove selection guides etc.
Skin Permeation Calculator
Safetyline Institute - an online education and training facility established by WorkSafe WA
Mixtures of substances in the workplace: utility for evaluating the chemical risk (Calculation of the Rm)
Toxicology Tutorials - cover basic principles, toxicokinetics and cellular toxicology
Case Studies in Environmental Medicine - oriented towards continuing education of medical practitioners, but are also of interest to occupational Hygienists
Safety Graphics, Posters and Microsoft Powerpoint presentations - Provided as a free resource from the University of Vermont (NB: Powerpoint presentations are not peer reviewed)
I-BEAM - designed by the US Environment Protection Agency to be used by building professionals and others interested in indoor air quality in commercial buildings. Provides useful IAQ management tools and interactive illustrations of IAQ problem situations.
EMAIL LISTS AND ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTERS
UK Occupational Hygiene List
Global Occupational Hygiene Group
Occupational & Environmental Medicine List
OSHmail - eletronic newsletter of the European Agency for Safety & Health
CCOHS News
US NIOSH e-News - monthly newsletter of the National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health
Advancing National Safety - the newsletter of the Australian Safety & Compensation Council
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