Medicine

Es imprescindible el uso consciente, explicito y juicioso de la mejor evidencia actual para la toma de decisiones técnicas en la práctica de la prevención de riesgos laborales. Sin la mejor evidencia disponible la práctica diaria corre el riesgo de quedarse obsoleta rápidamente. 

The main workplace health challenges from hazardous substances are cancer and chronic lung diseases, such as COPD and asthma. In Europe there are between 4 and 10 million adults suffering with COPD that was cased or made worse by work, resulting in tens-of-thousands of deaths each year. Almost 100,000 Europeans die each year from occupational cancer, primarily from asbestos, diesel engine exhaust emissions, crystalline silica and a small number of other substances or mixtures.