Final Exam - Chp 5

Question 1

what are 4 routes of entry by which chemicals can get into a worker’s body

Answer 1

most common respiration through breathing, absorption through skin, ingestion - eating and cuts through out skins. local toxicity burn point of contact, systematic other than point of contact - allergy to latex

Question 2

what is the difference between acute toxicity and chronic toxicity

Answer 2

acute is the immediate harm caused by exposure to a chemical substance, chronic is substances’s ability to cause harm over a longer period of time

Question 3

what is the precautionary principle

Answer 3

asserts that when a substance is suspected of causing harm to worker, the public or the environment but here is no scientific consensus on the question, then those seeking to the substance must prove it is not harmful