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The New Jersey Public Employees' Occupational Safety and Health Program identified 318 public school districts that reported any of l 0 selected carcinogens on their 1990 New Jersey Right to Know Survey of hazardous. substances. After obtaining more information about the school districts' use of these carcinogens from a 10% random sample phone survey, a letter recommending substitution of less hazardous substances was sent to the 318 school districts. Individualized to reflect information provided by the schools in the 1990 survey, a form requesting additional information on the status of containers homing the carcinogens was also sent. There were 1,303 reports of the 10 carcinogens from the 272 (86%) school districts that completed the form. Most were disposed of(668, 51%), used completely (65, 5%), or were slated for disposal (287, 22%). This is an example of a successful project by a regulatory agency to reduce potential exposure to carcinogens in public schools., Introduction The New Jersey Worker and Community Right to Know Act (N.J.S.A. 34: 5A-1 et seq.), effective August 29, 1984, resulted from concern about the proliferation of hazardous substances in [...]

The 114 occupational fatal injuries that occurred in New Jersey during 1992 had an estimated average cost-per-fatality of $1,073,868. This number reflects lost lifetime wage earning potential, which averaged $743,615 per fatality, lifetime lost benefits, the cost to the workplace of hiring and training a replacement for the dead worker, lost household production, the cost of medical services and the costs of repairs for the equipment damaged during the accident.

Cutaneous melanoma incidence and survival among U.S. blacks, Asian-Pacific Islanders (API) and whites were examined. Frequency distributions and age-adjusted incidence rates (cases per 100,000) by race, sex, anatomic subsite, histology and stage ( frequency distribution only) and age-specific incidence rates were calculated for primary invasive cutaneous melanoma diagnosed in 1995-2001 from 36 U.S. population-based cancer registries (n = 138,725). Rate ratios with 95% confidence intervals comparing anatomic subsite and histology rates among APIs and blacks with whites were calculated. Five-year cause-specific survival rates by sex, race and histology were calculated using data from 17 Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results registries. API and black incidence rates were lower than the white rate for males (2.1 and 1.2, respectively, versus 20.6) and females (1.6 and 0.9 versus 13.6). Within each sex-race group, incidence rates generally increased with age; the increase was greatest for white males. Rate ratios for anatomic subsites and histologies were statistically significantly low, except black male and female and API male rate ratios for acral lentiginous histology. Five-year cause-specific survival rates were lowest for black males and females (77%), followed by API males (79%) and API females (84%). Further elucidation of risk factors for cutaneous melanoma in blacks and APIs and for the acral lentiginous histology in all races could assist in the design of measures to prevent and detect cutaneous melanoma. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reports on the results of the Adult Blood Lead Epidemiology and Surveillance (ABLES) system from its first full year of operation in 1986 through 1996 in the United States. Methods of the study; Trends in numbers of reports, workers and workplaces; Trends in type of industry; Trends in blood lead levels; Conclusion.