Health and Safety Issues in Assaying

Workplace
Example: Workplace Safety Training
General health

Introduction

This area of Tom's Library deals with protecting the health and safety of assayers. Work safety is not isolated from home safety and personal health, so material in this area is broad. Three aspects of health and safety are open (at this time) for content development: Workplace safety, labatory safety training, and general health support resources. If you have any questions or sugestions, please e-mail tomslibrary with your comments. 
picture of an assayer having blood drawn to monitor lead exposure At left, a typical fire assayer is having his blood drawn to monitor lead exposure. Lead exposure is a common workplace hazard for technicians that perform fire assay analysis for gold. 

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