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Impact of Interventions to Prevent Asbestos-Related Respiratory Disease in an Exposed Worker Registry Using a Simplified G-computation
Characterizing Radon Among Public Buildings and Small/Medium-Sized Businesses in a Canadian Province
Updating a diesel engine exhaust job-exposure matrix with published measurement data
Surveillance of asbestos related disease among workers enrolled in an exposure registry
Respirable crystalline silica and lung cancer in community-based studies: impact of job-exposure matrix specifications on exposure-response relationships
Flames and Risks: Firefighting Causes Cancer
Radon Resources
Career fire hall exposures to diesel engine exhaust in Ontario, Canada
Construction Exposure Profiles | Wood Dust
This fact sheet highlights occupational exposures to wood dust and disease risks within the construction sector.
Construction Exposure Profiles | Welding Fumes
This fact sheet highlights occupational exposures to welding fumes and disease risks within the construction sector.
Construction Exposure Profiles | Solar Radiation
This fact sheet highlights occupational exposures to solar radiation and disease risks within the construction sector.
Construction Exposure Profiles | Silica
This fact sheet highlights occupational exposures to silica and disease risks within the construction sector.
Construction Exposure Profiles | Paints
This fact sheet highlights occupational exposures to paints and disease risks within the construction sector.
Construction Exposure Profiles | Lead
This fact sheet highlights occupational exposures to lead and disease risks within the construction sector.
Construction Exposure Profiles | Diesel Engine Exhaust
This fact sheet highlights occupational exposures to diesel engine exhaust and disease risks within the construction sector.
Construction Exposure Profiles | Asbestos
This fact sheet highlights occupational exposures to asbestos and disease risks within the construction sector.
Est-ce que le métier de chaudronnier du bâtiment est un métier à haut risque?
This fact sheets summarizes the risks of exposures to a variety of occupational hazards among Ontario boilermakers in the ODSS.
L’amiante dans les écoles : Risques professionnels chez les travailleurs de l’éducation
Are Boilermakers a High-Risk Trade?
This fact sheets summarizes the risks of exposures to a variety of occupational hazards among Ontario boilermakers in the ODSS.
Asbestos in Schools: Occupational Risks Among Education Workers
This fact sheet summarizes the risk of occupational asbestos exposure among Ontario education workers in the ODSS.
Risques professionnels pour les maladies liées à l’amiante
MPOC liée au travail : Quels sont les risques?
This fact sheet summarizes the occupational risks of COPD among Ontario workers in the ODSS.
Risques professionnels et IAM
Occupational Risks and Acute Myocardial Infarction
This fact sheet summarizes the occupational risks that may contribute to AMI among Ontario workers in the ODSS.
Work-related COPD: What are the risks? 
This fact sheet summarizes the occupational risks of COPD among Ontario workers in the ODSS.
Occupational Risks for Asbestos-related Disease
This fact sheet summarizes occupational risks for asbestos-related disease among Ontario workers.
Incidence of mesothelioma and asbestosis by occupation in a diverse workforce
This study aimed to characterize detailed patterns of mesothelioma and asbestosis incidence in the workforce as part of an occupational disease surveillance program in Ontario, Canada.
Estimating Historical Exposure to Respirable Crystalline Silica in the Mining Industry in Ontario, Canada Using a Newly Developed Exposure Database
Mesothelioma Surveillance & Prognosis in Ontario
Mortality among uranium miners in North America and Europe: the Pooled Uranium Miners Analysis (PUMA)
Diesel Engine Exhaust Exposure, Smoking, and Lung Cancer Subtype Risks. A Pooled Exposure–Response Analysis of 14 Case–Control Studies
Innovations in applied decision theory for health and safety
Estimating the burden of lung cancer in Canada attributed to occupational radon exposure using a novel exposure assessment method
OCRC Report: Future Burden of Cancer in Construction Workshop
A probabilistic approach for economic evaluation of occupational health and safety interventions: a case study of silica exposure reduction interventions in the construction sector
OCRC Report: Burden of occupational cancer in Canada – Major workplace carcinogens and prevention of exposure
Histopathologic Analysis of Lung Cancer Incidence Associated with Radon Exposure among Ontario Uranium Miners
Exposure of Canadian electronic waste dismantlers to flame retardants
Flame retardants and plasticizers in a Canadian waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) dismantling facility
Burden of Occupational Cancer: Fact Sheets
Controlling Diesel Particulate Matter in Construction
Burden of lung cancer attributable to occupational diesel engine exhaust exposure in Canada
OCRC Report: Assessment of diesel exhaust exposure in municipal fire halls in Ontario
Video: Scientist Victoria Arrandale discusses e-waste in the The Agenda with Steve Paikin program
Alternative Flame Retardant, 2,4,6-Tris(2,4,6-tribromophenoxy)-1,3,5-triazine, in an E-waste Recycling Facility and House Dust in North America
Controlling Diesel Particulate Matter from On-Road Diesel Engines
Cancer risks in a population-based study of 70,570 agricultural workers: results from the Canadian census health and Environment cohort (CanCHEC)
Controlling Diesel Particulate Matter in Underground Mines
Exposure–Response Analyses of Asbestos and Lung Cancer Subtypes in a Pooled Analysis of Case–Control Studies
Cancer incidence and mortality from exposure to radon progeny among Ontario uranium miners
Differences in the carcinogenic evaluation of glyphosate between the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
Bladder cancer and occupational exposure to diesel and gasoline engine emissions among Canadian men
From Awareness to Action: The Community of Sarnia Mobilizes to Protect its Workers from Occupational Disease
A comparison of exposure assessment approaches: lung cancer and occupational asbestos exposure in a population-based case-control study
Exposures to multiple pesticides and the risk of Hodgkin lymphoma in Canadian men
An overview of results from the Cross-Canada Study of Pesticides and Health and current state of the North American Pooled Project
Multiple pesticide exposures and the risk of multiple myeloma in Canadian men
Epidemiologic Studies of Pentachlorophenol Users
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Pesticide use, immunologic conditions, and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in Canadian men in six provinces
Exposure to multiple pesticides and the risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Exposure to pesticides and metal contaminants of fertilizer among tree planters
Occupational exposure to asbestos and ovarian cancer: a meta-analysis
Asbestos and Cancer in Ontario and the Occupational Cancer Research Centre
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