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NEWS ABOUT RESEARCH + VOLUME 08-04 - September
2010
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NEW PUBLICATIONS
ENGINEERED NANOPARTICLES
Current Knowledge about Occupational Health and Safety
Risks and Prevention Measures - Second Edition
A first review of the state of scientific knowledge
about synthetic nanoparticles and OHS was published by the IRSST in
2006. It revealed that OHS knowledge was very fragmentary but that
research in this field was growing rapidly. The aim of this new document
is to take stock of current knowledge in this field and summarizes the
data available until the end of 2009.
POWER
PRESS BRAKES
Means of safeguarding
The objective of this document is to inform companies
about the means available for safeguarding hydraulic power press brakes,
while emphasizing the two most recent solutions: the safety light
curtain and the laser beam device. This document is aimed at everyone
involved in the decision-making process relating to the safeguarding of
hydraulic power press brakes: engineers, company owners, CSST
inspectors, etc. As a corollary, users of the document must have
knowledge about hydraulic power press brakes in general, and about their
own presses in particular.
TRICHLOROETHYLENE (TCE)
A review of selected literature (1995-2009) on the
carcinogenicity of TCE
The IRSST engaged scientists from the University of
Utrecht in the Netherlands and Toxicology Advice & Consulting Ltd.
in the United Kingdom to conduct a selective review of the literature on
the carcinogenicity of trichloroethylene (trichloroethene; TCE; CAS
registry number: 79-01-6). The task consisted more precisely of
examining the most recent documentation, published in the last 10 to 15
years.
NEW RESEARCH PROJECTS
Conditions for a safe and competent integration of new
workers into the mining sector
0099-8660
=C9lise
Ledoux / IRSST ; Pierre-S=E9bastien Fournier / Universit=E9 Laval ;
Sylvie Ouellet, Esther Cloutier / IRSST ; C=E9line Chatigny / Universit=E9
du Qu=E9bec =E0 Montr=E9al ; Jean Bernier / Universit=E9 Laval ;
Christian Larue / IRSST
Conditions for work performance and OHS: results of an
interregional investigation on youth in high school and
college
0099-8820
Luc Laberge / Universit=E9 du Qu=E9bec =E0 Chicoutimi
; =C9lise Ledoux / IRSST ; Michel Perron, Marco Gaudreault / C=E9gep de
Jonqui=E8re ; Lise Lachance / Universit=E9 du Qu=E9bec =E0 Chicoutimi ;
Julie Auclair / C=E9gep de Jonqui=E8re
Impacts
of climate changes on occupational health and safety
2010-0004
Joseph
Zayed, Audrey Smargiassi / Universit=E9 de Montr=E9al ; France Labr=E8che,
Patrice Duguay, Marc-Antoine Busque / IRSST
Analysis
of a post-traumatic intervention protocol and associated management
measures at the Centre jeunesse de Montr=E9al-Institut universitaire
(Phase 1)
0099-7330
Henriette Bilodeau, Andr=E9 Marchand, Diane
Berthelette / Universit=E9 du Qu=E9bec =E0 Montr=E9al ; St=E9phane Guay
/ Universit=E9 de Montr=E9al ; Myra Crevier Gravel, Joannie Poirier
Brisson / Universit=E9 du Qu=E9bec =E0 Montr=E9al
The costs
of occupational injuries: the example of the mining
industry
0099-8570
Martin Lebeau, Patrice Duguay, Alexandre Boucher /
IRSST
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RELEASES
SIAS 2012
7th
International Conference Safety of Industrial Automated
Systems
The IRSST will host the 7th
edition of this international conference. If you want to be kept
informed about the registration procedures as well as about all the news
concerning the Conference as soon as it is put on line, please complete
and return the form on the Web page below.
SIAS 2012 REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
IRSST
RESEARCH GRANT PROGRAMS
Next deadlines
Every
year, the IRSST provides funding of $3.4 million for research projects
and activities by external researchers. Funding is by project or
activity, with follow-up mechanisms that promote interaction with the
IRSST.
Application deadline for a
Collaborative Research Grant or a Collaborative Activity Grant is
October 5, 2010.
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IRSST
SCHOLARSHIPS
New guest postdoctoral
fellowship
For the 2011-2012 competition, several changes and
improvements have been made to the IRSST=92s Graduate Studies
Scholarship Program. The new aspects include the possibility for
researchers to do their postdoctoral research at the IRSST under the
supervision of one of its researchers.
Deadline for submitting an application: October 20,
2010 at 4 p.m.
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