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occupational-health
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focustaiwan.twscience37 days ago
Occupational Health Groups Call on WHO to Restore Workplace Safety Programs
Senior occupational health experts are pressing delegates to the World Health Assembly, which begins May 18 in Geneva, to make workplace health a core WHO priority. Nearly 3 million workers die annually from job-related causes while climate change and new industrial hazards expos…
news.sky.comscience45 days ago
WHO/ILO: 18,960 Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer Deaths in 2019 Attributed to Occupational Sun Exposure
Joint WHO and ILO estimates show 1.6 billion working-age people, or 28 percent of the global total, were exposed to solar ultraviolet radiation at work in 2019. The research links this exposure to 18960 non-melanoma skin cancer deaths that year across 183 countries. The organizat…
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