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• Indoor air quality
  ...he United States and Europe, probably responsible for tens of thousands of deaths from lung cancer each year.<ref>[http://www.epa.gov/radon/index.html U.S. E ...ls of [[particulate matter]] resulted in between 1.5 million and 2 million deaths in 2000.<ref name="Ezzati">{{cite journal |author=Ezzati M, Kammen DM |titl
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• Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations
  The regulations require "responsible persons" to report deaths at work, major injuries caused by accidents at work, injuries to persons no During [[2006]]-[[2007]] about 30 million working days were lost due to work-related ill
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• Carbon monoxide poisoning
  ...toxicity at high altitude|journal=Wilderness & Environmental Medicine|year=2006|pages=144–145|volume=17|issue=2|pmid=16805152|doi=}}</ref><ref>{{cite boo ...|pages=99–125 |year=2006 |month=March |pmid=16567227 |doi=10.1016/j.cll.2006.01.005}}</ref><ref name="emedicine">{{cite web | last =Shochat | first =Guy
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• Workplace safety
  ...UK the disparity was even greater with males comprising 97.4% of workplace deaths.<ref>http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/tables/agegen1.htm</ref><ref>http://w [[Image:Number_of_Fatal_Work_Injuries_1992-2006.gif]]
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• Cancer
  ...thorlink =Reuters | title =Report sees 7.6&nbsp;million global 2007 cancer deaths | publisher =Reuters |month=December | year=2007 | url =http://www.reuters. ...rocess |journal=Nat. Rev. Cancer |volume=6 |issue=12 |pages=924–35 |year=2006 |month=December |pmid=17109012 |doi=10.1038/nrc2013}}</ref>
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• Nosocomial infection
  ...egative]] infections are estimated to account for two-thirds of the 25,000 deaths each year. Nosocomial infections can cause severe [[pneumonia]] and infecti ...rds CL, ''et al.'' |title=Estimating health care-associated infections and deaths in U.S. hospitals, 2002 |journal=Public Health Rep |volume=122 |issue=2 |pa
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• Asbestos
  ...No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of C In 2006, 2.3 million tons of asbestos were mined worldwide, in 11 or 12 countries.
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• Health and safety law
  '''Court hearing after artwork deaths''' ...e sculpture flipped into the aire at Chester-le-Street, Co Durham, in July 2006 killing two adults who were inside the sculpture. A further 15 visitors wer
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• Occupational fatality
  ...ties are also commonly called “occupational deaths” or “work-related deaths/fatalities” and can occur in any [[industry]] or [[employment|occupation] ...uries Retrieved on 13 January 2009</ref>. That amounts to an average of 15 deaths every day.
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• Air safety
  ...ich 373 (26%) were fatal, resulting in 1063 deaths (142 occupational pilot deaths). Alaska accounted for 513 (36%) of the total U.S. crashes.<ref>{{cite web| ...so, the rate that year including the attacks (estimated here to be about 4 deaths per 1,000,000,000 person-miles), is safe compared to some other forms of tr
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• Benzene
  ...Methods Predict Benzene and Arenes To Be Nonplanar|pmid = 16848464|year = 2006|last1 = Moran|first1 = Damian|last2 = Simmonett|first2 = Andrew C.|last3 = ...a component or significant contaminant until the late 1970s when leukemia deaths were found associated with Goodyear's Pliofilm production operations in Ohi
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• Emergency management
  ...potential risks to the public.<ref>Lindell, M., Prater, C., and Perry, R. (2006). Fundamentals of Emergency Management. Retrieved January 9, 2009 at: http ...r aspect of preparedness is [[casualty prediction]], the study of how many deaths or injuries to expect for a given kind of event. This gives planners an ide
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• Arsenic
  [[Image:World Arsenic Production 2006.svg‎|thumb|250px|Arsenic output in 2006<ref name="USGSCS2006">{{cite web|url = http://minerals.er.usgs.gov/minerals ...the Bradford sweet poisoning]] in 1858, which resulted in approximately 20 deaths.<ref name="Food">{{cite journal|journal =British Food Journal|volume = 101|
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• Construction site safety
  | [[United States of America]] || 10.8 || 2006 || <ref>[http://www.workforamerica.com/Article/CB-777-Changing-Jobs-Worlds- Once a long time a go there were more deaths than ever but these days the death rate has increased more the ever.
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• Formaldehyde
  ...rnational Agency for Research on Cancer | location = Lyon, France | year = 2006 | isbn = 92-832-1288-6}}. {{11thRoC|file=s089form|name=Formaldehyde (gas)}} ...RC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans Volume 88 (2006) Formaldehyde, 2-Butoxyethanol and 1-tert-Butoxypropan-2-ol
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• National Day of Mourning (Canadian observance)
  ...p://www.gmhazards.org.uk/WMDLft06.pdf Also '''Safety Express' March/ April 2006 Page 5'' 'April 28th is...Workers' Memorial Day' (no ISBN); published by Th ...tment to improving health and safety in the workplace - to prevent further deaths, injuries and diseases from work.
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• Chlorine
  ...264B-3205-44A3-8306-8E8364917DF0/0/brazin.pdf |archivedate = September 18, 2006|deadurl=yes}}</ref> Chloroform was first used as an anesthetic in 1847.<ref ...= 2007-05-17|title = 'Chlorine bomb' hits Iraq village}}</ref> Most of the deaths were caused by the force of the explosions rather than the effects of chlor
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• Lead poisoning
  ...and [[headache]].<ref name="Henretig061314">[[#CITEREFHenretig06|Henretig (2006)]] pp. 1314</ref> In children, signs of encephalopathy such as bizarre beh ...sed widely in paints,<ref name="Henretig06">[[#CITEREFHenretig06|Henretig (2006)]] pp. 1310</ref> and [[lead paint]] is a major route of lead exposure in c
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• Electric shock
  ...rogram With Initial Donations Of $1.25 Million|publisher=IEEE|date=14 July 2006|accessdate=2008-01-01}}</ref> The [[arc flash]] in an electrical fault pro ...1/overview.html|accessdate=2008-08-16|title=Publication No. 98-131: Worker Deaths by Electrocution|publisher=[[National Institute for Occupational Safety and
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• Commercial fishing in Alaska
  ...fety. Out of 948 work-related deaths that took place in Alaska during 1990-2006, one-third (311) occurred to fishermen. This is equivalent to an estimated ...hereas in 1991, only 73 percent survived. While the number of occupational deaths in commercial fishermen in Alaska has been reduced, there is a continuing p
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