172558 A Case Study of an Occupatoinal Lung Disease: One worker's legal battle to prove an occupational lung disease"

Wednesday, October 29, 2008: 1:30 PM

Robert Cousins , Labor Safety and Health, National Labor College, Silver Spring, MD
Case study of styrene exposure of a 36 year old employee who contracted lung disease, and the struggles to have the courts accept work place exposure as the cause. Author was the union business agent and husband of the victim.

Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the research that rank-and-file trade unionists are doing to promote safety and health in their unions 2. Challenge the new ideas that the student/trade unionists on this panel are testing through their research 3. Learn innovative methods for health and safety training through unions 4. Learn about challenges and successes in legally proving that a disease is occupationally.

Keywords: Occupational Health, Occupational Exposure

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: no conflict of interest
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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