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Vol 70, Issue 7 October 2026
Browse selected papers from the October issue of Annals of Work Exposures and Health below.
Included in this issue:
- EDITOR'S CHOICE: Occupational exposure limits and REACH requirements in workplace risk management: perspectives of labor inspectors and OSH specialists
- Sixty-six years of the Inhaled Particles symposia—a commentary
- Examining the psychometric properties of the Occupational Stress Injury Resiliency Tool with comparison of concurrent, and predictive validity with other leading indicators of work-related psychological conditions
- Shift work, headache, and migraine in a large cohort of Dutch nurses
- Work stress, physical work demands, and device-measured physical activity: independent and joint associations with cardiovascular disease risk
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Groundbreaking Research
Since 1958, the Annals has been publishing historically important papers including:
- In 2010, a series of key papers from US government agencies on diesel exhaust fume and its potential to cause cancer among exposed workers
- In 2000, the article which now underpins HSE asbestos standards and is widely applied worldwide
- In 1998, a series of papers central to the early development of the control banding approach, which is now applied in the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Essentials regime and other control banding approaches used worldwide
- Influential papers from the 1970s to 1990s on inhalable dust and local exhaust ventilation, leading to improved measurement and risk control
- Articles developing international methods of quantifying asbestos exposure in the 1970s and 1980s
- A paper in 1960 on personal sampling which led to the modern approach to risk quantification for airborne substances in the workplace worldwide
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