Open AccessPoison Control Center follow-up of occupational disease.
Author(s) -
Eddy A. Bresnitz
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.80.6.711
Subject(s) - occupational safety and health , environmental health , disease control , poison control center , medicine , public health , agency (philosophy) , government (linguistics) , injury prevention , poison control , center (category theory) , suicide prevention , human factors and ergonomics , hazard , medical emergency , occupational exposure , occupational disease , gerontology , nursing , pathology , sociology , social science , linguistics , philosophy , chemistry , organic chemistry , crystallography
We followed up 73 of 372 calls to a Regional Poison Control Center (RPCC) that involved workplace disease/exposure(s); most other calls were not made by the workers. An average of 12 additional people per workplace were potentially exposed. Six of the 73 contacted a government agency for investigation of the hazard/illness. Twenty-five percent of callers were still exposed an average of seven months after the original call. The results indicate that poison control centers should develop a public health component to calls about possible workplace poisonings.