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Finland Institute of Occupational Health
The Finnish Institute of Occupational Health is a research and advisory institute whose main tasks are research, training of occupational health and safety professionals, provision of advisory services, and dissemination of information.
http://www.ttl.fi/Internet/English/default.htm |
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International Agency for Research on Cancer
IARC's mission is to coordinate and conduct research on the causes of human cancer, the mechanisms of carcinogens, and to develop scientific strategies for cancer control. The Agency is involved in both epidemiological and laboratory research and disseminates scientific information through publications, meetings, courses, and fellowships.
http://www.iarc.fr |
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National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety (NIOSH)
Gives access to a range of NIOSH publications including NIOSH Alerts, Federal Register Updates, News Releases and good abstracts of Criteria documents as they appear. However, the excellent database NIOSHTIC, available commercially, is no longer being updated, although there are various negotiations underway for some organization to continue it.
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/homepage.html |
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Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS)
Provides a comprehensive list of over 1000 Internet resources on health and safety, as well as OSH answers, which provides free Internet answers to FAQs [frequently asked questions] in occupational health and safety. Chemical information is available free of charge vial CHEMINDEX. Unfortunately, with the exception of the confidential inquires service, most other information is on a subscription basis.
http://www.ccohs.ca/ |
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Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers Inc. (OHCOW)
The mission of the OHCOW is to prevent occupational illnesses and injuries, and to promote the highest degree of physical, mental and social well-being of workers.
http://www.ohcow.on.ca/ |
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Occupational Safety & Health Organization (OSHA)
OSHA's vision is to make America's workplaces the safest in the world. OSHA is striving to eliminate workplace injuries, illnesses, and deaths so that all of America's workers can return home safely every day.
http://www.osha.gov/ |
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PubMed
A wonderful resource of over 9 million quality records from the medical/scientific literature. Database and indexing are complex, so although sophisticated searches are possible, best results are achieved by keeping search terms relatively simple. The ability to find similar entries by clicking on “See Related Articles” means that if you have one on-topic reference, you can easily find more. Be sure to download the searching instructions, which are updated on a regular basis.
http://www.pubmed.gov |
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The Hardin Meta-Directory Public, Occupational and Environmental Health
Created by the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences at the University of Iowa, it is a veritable “yellow pages” of useful sites. It also emphasizes quality and has instituted a self-policing function, whereby a link checker is used to check the connection rate on lists that are included in the directory. Generally the lists with the better connection rates are toward the top of their size category. The links on their own web pages boast a better than 98% connection rate – that is they work! From this site one can gain entry to occupational health resources in Scotland, Korea, Australia and Scandinavia, to name a few.
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/ |
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Windsor Occupational Health Information Service
W0HIS is an occupational Health & Safety information / referral service located in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. WOHIS was founded in 1982 in response to the need for accessible information on biological, chemical, psychological and physical hazards in the workplace.
http://www.mnsi.net/~wohis/ |
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The David Suzuki Foundation
The David Suzuki Foundation is a science-based and solutions-oriented Canadian environmental organization.
http://www.davidsuzuki.org |
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Association of Power Producers of Ontario
You can find information here to help you produce and/or use energy in the most effective and environmentally friendly ways.
http://www.appro.org/ |
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Toronto Environmental Alliance
The Toronto Environmental Alliance was formed in 1988 in order to provide an activist voice to local Toronto issues. TEA's mandate is to promote a greener Toronto. Their vision of a healthy community is based on equity, access, safety and a clean environment. They work with concerned individuals, public health agencies, and local governments and grassroots organizations in order to encourage the participation of Toronto citizens on local issues and to provide a forum for citizens to be heard on environmental issues.
http://torontoenvironment.org/ |
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MedHunt
This is a search engine that is limited ONLY to medical resources, and it is created using a robot that cruises the net with a thesaurus of medical and health related terminology strapped to its virtual back, selecting only those web pages, which contain thesaurus terms.
http://129.195.254.33/MedHunt/ |
