Occupational Health Surveillance and Evaluation Program (OHSEP) Publications
The following is a list of publications that are available online. To obtain print copies or to view a complete list of all OHSEP materials, including those that are not available online, please see OHSEP Publication Order Form (PDF) 
. Print copies can also be ordered by calling (510) 620-5757.
Agriculture and Pesticide-Related Illness and Injury
Asthma
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
Hospitals and Health Care Settings
Ionizing Radiation And Chemical Exposure
Agriculture and Pesticide-Related Illness and Injury
Pesticides used to treat bed bugs can make you sick (PDF) – pesticide hazard alert (2012)
- Gender differences in pesticide-related farmworker illnesses – journal article abstract (2012)
- Managing pests and pesticides in your office (PDF) – fact sheet for employers and building managers (co-produced by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation
- Bank workers become ill after fumigation (PDF) – pesticide hazard alert (2011)
- Acute illness and injury from swimming pool disinfectants – MMWR Report (2011)
- Acute illnesses associated with insecticides used to control bed bugs – MMWR Report (2011)
- Keep pests and pesticides out of your office! (PDF) – fact sheet for employees (co-produced by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation, 2011)
- Acute illnesses associated with agricultural pesticide drift (PDF) – journal article (2011)
- Acute illnesses associated with exposure to fipronil – journal article abstract (2010)
- Safer Alternatives for Pest Control in Agriculture – conference summary and presentations (2009)
- Nurses Using Rural Sentinel Events (NURSE) Reports – agricultural injury surveillance in California
- Application of the Industrial Hygiene Hierarchy of Controls to Prioritize and Promote Safer Methods of Pest Control (PDF) (2009)
- Occupational Pesticide Illness in California, 1998-2006 (PDF) (2009)
- Alternatives to the Use of Cyfluthrin to Control Thrips Damage in the Orange Growing Industry (PDF) – consultant report prepared for OHB (2008)
- Acute Pesticide Poisoning in the U.S. Retail Industry, 1998–2004 (PDF) – journal article (2007)
- Pesticide-related Illness among Migrant Farm Workers in the United States (PDF) – journal article (2007)
- Worker Illness Related to Ground Application of Pesticide – MMWR report (2006)
- Safety Of Pesticides Used To Control Adult Mosquitoes (PDF) – report (2006)
- Farm Worker Illness following exposure to Carbofuran and Other Pesticides – MMWR report (1999)
- Pesticide Illness Due to Room Disinfection with Paraformaldehyde (PDF)
- Skin Rash Due to a Spray Application of Pesticide Formulations (PDF)
- Farm Worker Illness Following Exposure to Pesticide Drift in Kings County, California, 1999 - Full Report (PDF) ... Spanish summary report (2001)
- Occupational Illness Due to Pesticide Drift From A Sprinkler Application of Metam-Sodium - Full Report (PDF) … Spanish summary report (2001)
- Aircraft Disinsection (PDF) – Letter published in Bulletin of the World Health Organization, (2001)
- Occupational Illness Among Flight Attendants Due to Aircraft Disinsection (PDF) – report (45 pages, 2003)
- Pesticide Illness Among Flight Attendants Due to Aircraft Disinsection.(PDF) – journal article (12 pages, 2007)
- The San Luis Obispo County Farmworker Survey, Implementation of Worker Safety Regulations (PDF) – report (144 pages, 2002)
- Pesticide Illness Among Farmworkers in the United States and California (PDF) – poster (2002)
- Pyrethroid pesticide illnesses in occupational settings (PDF) – poster (2001)
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Asthma
The Proportion of Self-Reported Asthma Associated with Work in Three States: California, Massachusetts, and Michigan, 2001 (PDF) - journal article (2006)
Investigation of Work-Related Glutaraldehyde Exposures at Two Heart Valve Manufacturing Companies (PDF) – executive summary (March 2006)
Transforming Medical Waste Disposal Practices to Protect Public Health: Worker Health and Safety (PDF, 1.6MB)– Large Scale, Off-Site Steam Autoclaves (104 pages, 2006)
Work-Related Asthma Among Health Care Workers: Surveillance data from California, Massachusetts, Michigan, and New Jersey, 1993-1997 (PDF) – journal article (2005)
A descriptive study of work-aggravated asthma – journal article abstract (2004)
California Asthma Facts: Work-Related Asthma (PDF) – newsletter (2004)
Removing Graffiti Safely (PDF) – booklet (revised 2004)
Wood Dust and Occupational Asthma (PDF) – booklet (2004)
Work-related Reactive Airways Dysfunction Syndrome - Cases from Surveillance in Selected U.S. States – journal article abstract (2003)
Cleaning Products and Work-Related Asthma (PDF) – journal article (2003)
Prevention of Occupational Asthma in California (PDF, 2.5MB) – newsletter (2002)
Physician reports of work-related asthma in California, 1993-1996 – journal article abstract (2001)
Surveillance of work-related asthma in selected U.S. states 1993-1995 – MMWR report (1999)
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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
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Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation (FACE) Program Materials
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Hospitals and Health Care Settings
Inadvertent laboratory exposure to Bacillus anthracis – MMWR report (2004)
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Exposure to Chemicals and/or Radiation
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