Haz-Map is an occupational health database
designed to inform both professionals and consumers about the health
effects of exposure to workplace chemicals and biological hazards. This
database is produced by the National Library
of Medicine (NLM) and the Toxicology
and Environmental Health Information Program. links jobs and hazardous
tasks with occupational diseases and their symptoms.
Haz-Map provides links to information on hazardous agents,
occupational diseases and their symptoms, high risk jobs, and the dangers of
working in certain types of industries. Haz-Map shows what diseases are linked
to which chemical agents, such as formaldehyde or biological hazards,
like grain dust. It currently covers about 6,000 chemical and biological agents and 235
occupational diseases.
The information included in Haz-Map comes from textbooks; journal
articles; Documentation of the
Threshold Limit Values, a publication by the American Conference of
Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH); and the Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB) part of NLM's system of toxicology and environmental
health databases called TOXNET.
Haz-Map has been redesigned so that it works for both web and all
kinds of mobile devices. It now adapts adapts to web browsers on desktops,
laptops, tablets and to smart phones, iPhone, Android and Blackberry.
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