Abstract
The goal of occupational toxicology is to help establish safe working conditions. Historically, occupational studies have provided some of the strongest evidence that exposure to substances that are foreign to the body, including chemicals, metals, and new materials, can damage human health. Toxicology studies are used to investigate how different types of substances disrupt biological systems to cause injury and disease, to develop methods to assess the health risks of workplace exposures, and to establish occupational exposure limits.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Encyclopedia of Toxicology |
| Subtitle of host publication | Third Edition |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Pages | 643-647 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780123864543 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780123864550 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2014 |
Keywords
- American Conference of Industrial Hygienists
- Biomarkers
- Biotransformation
- Dose-response
- Exposure
- Genomics
- Hazard index
- Health risk assessment
- Metabolomics
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- Permissible exposure limits
- Proteomics
- Threshold limit value
- Toxicogenetics
