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Article: Refining WHMIS. (worker exposure to hazardous materials and substances in the workplace.)
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- Canadian Chemical News
- Article date:
- February 1, 1991
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Refining WHMIS
Several decades have passed since it was first realized that many workers involved in the production of beta naphthylamine at a major UK chemical plant eventually died of cancer of the bladder. This compound, and its salts, were subsequently banned throughout Britain under the Carcinogenic Substances Regulations, 1967.
There are similar case histories throughout the world where only through on-the-job exposure has society proven the existence of human carcinogens and other highly toxic substances. Proven meaning that there is irrefutable evidence they have caused cancer and other serious diseases in persons having been exposed.
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