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Read the Annals
As a BOHS member, you can read all Annals papers online as part of your membership benefits. This is the only way to obtain a personal subscription to the journal. Find out how to activate your subscription here.
If you’re not a member of BOHS, you can view institutional and corporate subscription rates here. Some content is also freely available.
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Vol 66, Issue 1, January 2022
Browse selected papers from the latest issue of Annals of Work Exposures and Health below.
Included in this issue:
- EDITOR'S CHOICE: Silica Exposure Estimates in Artificial Stone Benchtop Fabrication and Adverse Respiratory Outcomes
- Animal Allergens, Endotoxin, and β-(1,3)-Glucan in Small Animal Practices: Exposure Levels at Work and in Homes of Veterinary Staff
- Hydrogen Sulphide (H2S) Exposure Hazard Assessment: An Algorithm for Generating Exposure Index Based on Direct Instrument Readings
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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