The Internet: Accessing Occupational Health and Safety Information

The Internet:
Accessing Occupational Health

and Safety Information
SWCOEH Spring Institute 2000

March 6, 2000
Deanna M. Ennis, MS, CIH, CSP
06/12/21 SWCOEH Spring 2000 1

Course Overview
 Schedule for the day
 Instructor background
 Participants backgrounds
 Course web site

Course Objectives
 To enable the effective and efficient use of
the information available on the Internet
 To understand the types of information
that can currently be found on the Internet
 To understand the differences between
various Internet search utilities and to be
able to use each effectively

Course Objectives (cont.)
 To evaluate the quality of information
found on the Internet
 To understand the limitations of the
Internet as an information resource
 To become familiar with specific types of
information resources available on the
Internet of interest to occupational health
and safety professionals

Internet Overview
Terminology
Important concepts

What is the Internet?
The Internet is a collection of high-speed

networks comprised of the material
backbone network provided by the
National Science Foundation and a
hierarchy of tens of thousands of
computers attached to government
agency, school, commercial and corporate
networks.

Myths, Misunderstandings and
Misconceptions
 The Internet and the World Wide Web are

the same thing.
 The Internet only contains text and
graphical information.
 “On the Internet” vs. “Via the Internet”
 All search engines are the same.
 If I use several Internet search utilities,
then I have searched everything.

More Myths, Misunderstandings and
Misconceptions
 If you don’t find in on the WWW, it doesn’t

exist online.
 “Information on the Internet is free” vs.
“You get what you pay for”
 Information on the Internet is true and
accurate.
 Searching is easy.

Internet Includes:
 World Wide Web (WWW)

 E-mail
 Usenet
 File Transfer Protocol (ftp)
 Gopher
 Internet Relay Chat

What's the big deal?
 Network of computers of different types
 No one owns it
 No one regulates it - cooperative (?) anarchy
 Multi-media formats
 Potential for unlimited information at your
fingertips

How the Internet is Changing
 Commercialization (advertising)
 Increase of serious scholars, major

businesses, government agencies, major
publishers
 May be the only form an item is published

How the Internet is Changing
 Free vs. for-fee
 E-commerce
 More downloadable software
 Enhanced search capabilities

Reasons to be on the Internet
 Information resources
– Occupational health and safety information
 Networking
– e-mail
– On-line discussions (listservs)
 Educational programs
 Provide professional expertise
 Hardware/software/information/ patches
 To be cool
World Wide Web
 Hypertext system of finding information
 Links within files connected to other links
 “Home pages”, “Web Pages”
 Browseable
 Searchable

HyperText Markup Language
(HTML)
Current computer language (code) of the WWW:

 Different computer systems to read and display
text, graphics, sound, and multimedia
information
 Displays hypertext links from one page to
another on the WWW (underlined text, button or
graphic)
 Browser software programs decode HTML

HyperText Transport Protocol
(HTTP)
The communication protocol used by

web browsers to receive and display
web pages

WWW URL’s
http://www.aiha1.org/Sections/gcs/upcoming.html
 http:// - defines transfer protocol (also ftp, gopher, tel)

 http://www.aiha1.org/ - Servername.domain
 http://www.aiha1.org/Sections/gcs - directory name
(default page)
 http://www.aiha1.org/Sections/gcs/upcoming.html -
actual HTML document

Domain Authorities
US Domains Country Domains
mil = military net us = US Geographical
edu = university ca = Canada
gov = government de = Germany
org = non-profits au = Australia
net = net control ch = Switzerland
com = commercial ru = Russian Federation

The World Wide Web
AIHA
Home Page
Deanna’s
Home Page
Gulf
Coast
Section
Home
Page

Web Browsers
Software which provides an interface
between users and Web resources:
 User inputs URL’s to locate web pages.
 Requests and receives HTML code.
 Decode HTML and displays it graphically
so we can read it.
 Different browsers do not render HTML
code the same way.

Popular Web Browsers
Graphical User Interface (GUI)
 Netscape Navigator/Communicator
 Microsoft Internet Explorer
 Opera
 Mosaic
Older “text-based” browsers

 Lynx

Bookmarks or Favorites
 Memorizes the URLs of Web Pages
 Can be organized into “folders”
 If you like it, bookmark it!

Browser Add-ins
 Software that works with browsers to
access information stored in a particular
format.
– Word processor for documents
– Adobe Acrobat for PDF files
– RealPlayer for multi-media files

Listservs and Forums
 E-mail discussion groups
 Focus on a general topic or specific
(occupational medicine or indoor air
pollution)
 May be moderated or unmoderated
 Puts you in touch with others with similar
expertise or interests
 Usenet (newsgroup) messages are stored
according to content (“threads”)

Listservs
 List of lists
http://www.ccohs.ca/resources/listserv.htm
 Occupational Medicine - OCC-ENV-MED-L

http://occ-env-med.mc.duke.edu/oem/occ-env-.htm
 Medical Center Occupational Health Mailing

List
http://www.occenvmed.net/mcoh/listinfo.htm

Listservs
 Occupational Nursing OHN-LISTOHN-LIST
http://www.ualberta.ca/~jrnorris/nursenet/ohnlist.txt
 Industrial Hygiene - AIHAIH-LIST

http://www.aiha1.org/Committees/CAC/ih-list-FAQ.htm
 Safety - SAFETY
http://siri.uvm.edu/mail/safety/join.html

Net Manners
 Don’t write anything that wouldn’t say in public.
 USING CAPS INDICATES SHOUTING!
 Think about everyone who might see what you
write (collegues, former employers, future
employers).
 Make sure you understand how to use the list.

Internet Security Concerns
 Confidentiality and privacy issues

 Viruses
 Spam
 E-commerce
 Cookies
 Hoaxes, frauds, and “urban legends”

Evaluating Quality of
Information on the Internet

The Internet is not a library
 No one monitors for authority,
consistency and decency
 Searching requires the use of various
search utilities
 Searches often yield many irrelevant hits
 Easy to waste time
 Dead links and outdated sites are a
problem

Evaluating Quality
 Authorship
 Publishing body
 Point of view or bias
 Referral to and/or knowledge of the
literature
 Biography
 Accuracy or verifiability of details

Evaluating Quality (cont.)
 Currency - indication of date authored?
 Stated criteria for inclusion of information
 Comparability with related sources
 Stability of information
 Appropriateness of format
 Ease of use
 Software/hardware/multimedia
requirements

Information Search Process

Information Search Process
 Formulating the question
 Selecting the appropriate resources
 Prioritize the resources
 Perform the search
 Evaluate the results
 Repeat as necessary

Formulate the question
 Purpose
 Scope
 Time span
 Amount of material desired
 Level of material
 Keywords and synonyms

Select Appropriate Resource
 Types of information found on the Internet
– Government produced
 regulations, guidance documents,
– Proprietary databases
– Company information
 Limitations of the Internet
– Journals prior to 1995

Prioritize the resources

Perform the search

Evaluate the results

Repeat as necessary

Class Exercise
 Develop two questions for use during the
class.
– One for peer-reviewed literature
– One for the World Wide Web
 Draw on your real-life information needs.

Finding Information
on the Internet

Internet Search Utilities
 “Directory Assistance” of the net
 Basic Types
– Search Engines
– Subject Directory, Subject Catalog, Subject Index
– MetaSearchers
 Hybrids
 Portals

Search Engines

How Search Engines Work
Automatically index web pages. How?

 “Spider” visits the site, reads it, follows
links
 Text of page goes into a database
 You put in a term, search engine searches
for your request in the database
 Returns the results, including some site
text, ranked by some relevancy formula

Size Comparison
Million of Web Pages Indexed
(as of 2/1/99)
160 150
140 125
Alta Vista
120 110
Northern Light
100 Inktomi (HotBot)
80 Excite
55 50
60 45 Lycos
40 Infoseek
20 WebCrawler
2
0
Copyright 1999 Internet.com LLC. Reprinted with permission from

http://www.searchenginewatch.com. All rights reserved.
Current Size Comparison
Million of Web Pages Indexed

(as of 1/17/00)
350
300
300 FAST
250
250 Alta Vista
208
Northern Light
200
Excite
150 125 125 Google
110
Inktomi
100
50 50 Go (Infoseek)
50 Lycos
0
Copyright 2000 Internet.com LLC. Reprinted with permission from
http://www.searchenginewatch.com. All rights reserved.
Problems for Search Engines
 Web is not static

– Freshness (how often a site is crawled)
– Dead links
 Many different information formats
 Studies show search engines are
– incomplete
– little duplication
– not keeping up with growth of the web
– search features are inconsistent

FAST http://www.alltheweb.com
 One of the largest indexes
 Designed to demonstrate
technology, not a major search portal
 Offers standard search capabilities
 Allows searching by language
 Can limit searches to page title or URL
text

AltaVista - http://www.altavista.com
 Major all-purpose search engine
 The results four different sources
– Ask Jeeves
– RealNames
– AltaVista's web crawler, one page per web site
appears in the top results.
– Open Directory

AltaVista - http://www.altavista.com
 Three buttons under listing
– "Translate"
– "More pages from this site"
– "Company factsheet"
 Other types of searches
– Advanced Search
– Images, Audio & Video
– News
– Discussions newsgroups
– Shopping

Northern Light - http://northernlight.com/
 Appeals to professional searcher and

corporate market
 “Special Collection” of print materials for
fee
 Results organized in “files”
 Good for subject searching

Northern Light
Special Collection includes:
AIHA Journal Hospital Employee Health

Occupational Safety and Health AAOHN Journal
Occupational Hazards Human Factors
Occupational Health Management Material Handling Engineering
Professional Safety Journal of Toxicology
Safety and Health Practitioner Archives of Environmental Health
Journal of Environmental Health Environment Business
OH&S Canada Environmental Law
Business & Health Hydrocarbon Processing
NTIS (report summaries) Many specific trade journals

Google http://www.google.com
 Large database (usually in the top 3)
 Uses link popularity to rank results
 Store copy of pages; can browse if site is

not available
 “I’m feeling lucky” button

Search Engines Don’t Include
 Adobe PDF and other formatted files
 CGI output such as data requested by a form
 Commercial resources with domain limitations
 Pages excluded by robots. txt files
 Pages Accessible Only Through a Search Form
 Password Protected Pages (some are paid
subscribers but others are free to registered
users)

Advanced Searching
 Boolean operators (AND/OR/NOT)
 Symbols (+, -)
 Truncation (wildcards)
 Case sensitivity
 Symbols and numbers
 Weight/proximity of search terms
 Specified date range
 Language(s)

Simple Operators
 + indicates word must be on the page
– +asbestos +awareness +training
 - prohibits word
– +mustang -ford
 “xx” indicates word sequence

– “indoor air pollution”

Boolean Operators
 AND, OR, and NOT
 Use when searching for more than one
concept or search statement
 Can be used in most computerized
databases

AND - narrows search
Search for pages with cats and dogs
both
Pages with “cats” Pages with
“cats” and “dogs”
“dogs”

OR - broadens search
Search for pages with cats or dogs
both
“cats”
Pages with Pages with
and
“cats” “dogs”
“dogs”

NOT - eliminates (narrows)
Search for pages with cats but not dogs
both
Pages with “cats”
Pages with
“cats” and
“dogs”
“dogs”

Truncation
 Uses a symbol (usually a *) as a substitute
for zero or more characters
– For example, risk* retrieves risk, risks, risk-
taking
– Use of the term infection* would not get
infection control because there is a space
after the word infection

Phrase Searching
 Use quotation marks to insure that phrase
is recognized
– “indoor air pollution”
– “carbon monoxide”

Search Engine Advice
 Not all the same. Strengths and weakness
cancel out
 Little overlap between search engines
 Suggest getting familiar with three
 Learn a few advanced strategies for each (i.e.,
Boolean, +, -, “ ”, case sensitivity)
 In general, you are searching “anywords” not
keywords or subjects
 Use synonyms

Search Engine Summary
 Advantage
– Large content database
 Disadvantage
– Indexing not precise
– Finding relevant documents difficult
 Best use
– Searching for unique terms with specific
meaning

To follow search engines:
 Search Engine Watch
– http://www.searchenginewatch.com/
 Search Engine Showdown

– http://searchengineshowdown.com/

Subject Directories

Subject Directories
 Indexed by human beings!
 Subjects assigned using controlled vocabulary
 Search on subjects and keywords
 Often include a summary or abstract of site
 Smaller databases
– Homepage sites for organizations
– General topics
– Commercial products
– Current events

Best Subject Directories
 Yahoo: 1.2 million+ pages (11/99)
– http://www.yahoo.com
 LookSmart: 1 million pages (9/99)
– http://www.looksmart.com/
 Open Directory: 950,000 pages (9/99)
– http://www.dmoz.org/
 Snap
– http://www.snap.com

Yahoo - www.yahoo.com
 Best for “starter sites”
 Directory search
– returns listings of directories down to pages
– has people and business searches, maps
 Tips
– Use the “options” command to search by
categories, set AND/OR logic
– Use the regional databases to limit search
where appropriate

Subject Directory Summary
 Advantage
– Generally higher quality content than
search engines
– Information is organized by subject
 Disadvantage
– Small databases
 Best use
– Searching for information by broad subject

Metasearchers

MetaSearchers
 Sends query to multiple search engines and
directories.
 Examples
– Dogpile http://www.dogpile.com/
– SavvySearch http://www.savvysearch.com/
– ProFusion http://www.profusion.com/
 Helps address lack of overlap between index
databases

MetaSearcher Limitations
 Subject to “time outs”
 Only retrieve 10-50 from each search engine
 May not include all important search utilities
 Advanced searching not available

Metasearcher Summary
 Advantage
– Works with imprecise search questions
– Provides fewer pagers with greater relevance
(generally)
 Disadvantage
– Not as effective for difficult searches
 Best use
– fast exact phrase searching
– overview of information on various utilities

Other Search Utilities
 Hybrids
– combine functions of search engine and
directory
 Portals
– content up front (news, weather, stock quotes)
 Specilized Utilites
– search phone numbers, e-mail addresses,
listservs, government information, etc.

Steps to Smarter Searching

Effective Search Strategies
 URL "guessing”
 Use a subject directory
 Use search engines

Smart Search Step 1
Go to the source site (if you know it or can

guess it) to find:
 current news  scientific reports
 product information  staff directories
 public relations  library catalogs
materials  article reprints
 press releases
Use the site’s search feature if it has one!!

URL Guessing
1. Leave off http://

2. Start with www.
3. Add name (sometimes shortened)
4. Add domain .com, .edu, . org, or .gov

Guess the URL’s for:
 Internal Revenue Service

www.irs.gov
 University of California, Los Angeles
www.ucla.edu
 American Society of Mechanical
Engineers
www.asme.org

Smart Search Step 2
 Use a Subject Directory

– company
– product name
– broad topics
– current events
 Good place to find “jump lists”
 Won’t find “buried pages”

Smart Search Step 3
Use Search Engines
– for very specific searches
– pages buried in a site
– unusual keywords, combining keywords
– chemical and drug names
– unique product names
– CAS numbers
– geographic locations
– people’s names

Smart Search Step 4
May get “404 - file not found” messages
Perform a URLectomy
Slicing, Dicing, Chopping

URLectomy
http://www.aiha1.org/Sections/gcs/news.htm
404 - File not found
http://www.aiha1.org/Sections/gcs

Lab
Demonstrations Using Examples

From Course Participant Information
Needs Assessments

On Internet vs. Via Internet
 Free vs. for-fee
 Dust off those library cards
– HAM-TMC Library
http://www.library.tmc.edu/
– Public Libraries
http://www.hpl.lib.tx.us/hpl/database.html

OSH Literature Indexes
 MEDLINE via PubMed and Internet
Grateful Med
 NIOSHTIC-2
 TOXNET
 CCOHS OSHLINE
 CINHAL
 MEDLINEplus

PubMed and Grateful Med (free)
Grateful Med http://igm.nlm.nih.gov/
PubMed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/
 MEDLINE - source index for medical and scientific literature

 11 million references and abstracts
 Over 21,600 journals indexed including some trade journals
 Now indexes ACGIH Applied Occupational and
Environmental Hygiene

Brief history of NIOSHTIC
 1971 - Proposed to support NIOSH mission
 1995 - Internal NIOSH use began
 1985 - Fee-based online database
 1986 - Available on CDROM
 1998 (Sept.) - Indexing (updates) discontinued
 2000 (Jan.) - NIOSHTIC-2 free Web-based
access

NIOSHTIC (fee based)
 Over 200,000 records (abstracts)
 Standardized abstract format
 Citations for all NIOSH reports, publications, &
NIOSH generated journal articles
 Summaries of NIOSH Health Hazard Evaluations
 160 core scientific & technical journals abstracts
 Retrospective literature before 1970
 Citations added since 1980 included in NLM’s
TOXLINE database

NIOSHTIC-2 (free)
 Bibliographic database of OSH
publications generated or funded by
NIOSH
 Over 16,000 citations between 1971-1998
 Updated weekly
 Updates of new NIOSH publications since
1998

CCOHS CCINFOweb (fee-based)
http://ccinfoweb.ccohs.ca/
 Free to search, subscription fee to view
 Includes NIOSHTIC with OSHLINE
 Picks up where NIOSHTIC stopped and indexes
additional materials
 Can search with other databases
– RTECS
– CISILO, HSELINE
– ChemInfo
– MSDS

TOXNET (free)
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/sis1/
 A cluster of databases on toxicology,

hazardous chemicals, and related areas.
 Databases of interest to IHs:
– Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
– Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS)
– TOXLINE (contains NIOSHTIC subfile)
– TRI
– HSDB Structures

CINHAL (fee)
http://www.texshare.edu/ovidweb/ovidweb.cgi
 Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health

Literature (CINAHL)
 Best nursing literature database
 Indexes over 650 journal titles, audiovisual
materials, computer programs, dissertation,
books and book chapters, from 1982 to the
present.

MEDLINEplus
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
 Health information directed toward the

consumer
 Know what your patients/employees are
reading

Government Information

Government Regulations
 Federal Register
– http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces140.html
 Code of Federal Regulations

– http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfr-table-search.html
 Government Printing Office

– http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aaces002.html

Fed Gov. websites
 General - FedWorld
– http://www.fedworld.gov/index.html
 Occupational Safety and Health

Administration (OSHA)
– http://www.osha.gov
 National Institute of Occupational Safety

and Health (NIOSH)
– http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/

Fed Gov. Agencies
 Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease
Registry (ATSDR)
– http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/
 National Institute of Environmental Health

Sciences (NIEHS)
– http://www.niehs.nih.gov/
 Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)

– http://stats.bls.gov/
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Fed. Gov. Agencies
 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
– http://www.epa.gov
 National Technical Information Service

(NTIS)
– http://www.ntis.gov/
 Center for Disease Control (CDC)

– http://www.cdc.gov
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Fed. Gov. Agencies
 Department of Transportation (DOT)
– http://www.dot.gov
 Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

– http://www.fda.gov
 Department of Health and Human Services

(DHHS)
– http://www.dhhs.gov
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Other Useful Health and
Safety Related Resources
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Chemical Information
 Where to find MSDS on the Internet
– http://www.ilpi.com/msds/index.html
 MSDS Search 2000
– http://www.msdssearch.com/
 Vermont SIRI MSDS
– http://siri.uvm.edu/msds/
 ChemFinder
– http://chemfinder.camsoft.com/
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Occupational Medicine
 The Duke University OEM Website
– http://gilligan.mc.duke.edu/oem
 AOHC Internet Learning Center
– http://www.occhealth.org/medsites.html
 Occupational And Environmental Medicine
Resources
– http://www.occenvmed.net/
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General Medicine Sites
 National Institutes of Health
http://www.nih.gov/health
 Mayo Clinic
http://www.mayohealth.org
 Medscape
http://www.medscape.com
 HealthFinder
http://www.healthfinder.com
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Occupational Health Nursing
 American Association of Occupational
Health Nurses
– http://www.aaohn.org/
 American Board for Occupational Health
Nurses
– http://www.abohn.org/
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Industrial Hygiene
 American Industrial Hygiene Association
– http://www.aiha.org/
 American Conference of Governmental
Industrial Hygienists
– http://www.acgih.org/
 American Board of Industrial Hygiene
– http://www.abih.org
 IndustrialHygiene.com
– http://www.industrialhygiene.com
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Safety
 American Society of Safety Engineers
– http://www.asse.org
 Board of Certified Safety Professionals
– http://www.bcsp.org
 WorldSafety
– http://worldsafety.com/
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Now, can you find...
 The Coast Guard Regulations on
permissible exposure to benzene
 OSHA Proposed Ergonomics
Standard
 An MSDS for benzene
 The correct ergonomic positioning for
a computer work station
 The odor threshold for toluene
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What next?
 Search for terms within documents (Find

in Page)
 Cut and paste text
 Save files and images
 Print copies (observe copyrights)
 Forward information using e-mail
 Bookmark URLs!
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Using what you find
 Saving Web Pages
1. Open browser and find page of interest
2. Place cursor menu File then Save As
3. Select filename and location as appropriate
 Saving images
2. Place cursor over desired image
3. Right click mouse and select Save Image As
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Using what you find
 Saving a file
1. Open browser and find link to file of interest
2. Right click mouse and select Save Target As
 Finding text in a page

2. Ctrl-F and enter search string (If using Acrobat
PDF, use “search icon” to find)
3. Use “find next” until proper reference found
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Using what you find
 Cut and paste text
1. Open browser and find text of interest
2. Use mouse to highlight desired text (If using
Acrobat PDF, be sure to select “text tool” first)
3. Edit - Copy [Ctrl-C] selection (If using Acrobat
PDF, use “copy tool”)
4. Open WP and desired document
5. Edit - Paste [Ctrl-V] text into location
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Using what you find
 Saving and installing downloaded software
applications
1. Open browser and find source of program
2. Place cursor over link and activate
4. Locate file and run setup if not self-installing
program
Beware of the source and use virus-checking
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Using what you find
 Print copies (observe copyrights)
– Print entire page
– Selecting the correct frame to print
 Sending URLs
– File menu then Send
 Forward information using e-mail

– Forward message
– Attaching files
– Encrypting messages
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What have we learned?
 The Internet and the World Wide Web are
not same thing.
 The Internet contains many information
formats.
 Free vs. Fee
 All search utilities are not the same.
 Even if several search utilities are used,
you may not find what you need
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What have we learned?
 Information quality varies
– presentation
– authority
– accuracy
 Searching is not always easy
 Practice makes perfect
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References
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Accessing Occupational Health
and Safety Information
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The Internet is a collection of high-speed

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 The Internet and the World Wide Web are

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 If you don’t find in on the WWW, it doesn’t

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 World Wide Web (WWW)

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 Increase of serious scholars, major

 May be the only form an item is published

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 More downloadable software

 Enhanced search capabilities

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Current computer language (code) of the WWW:

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The communication protocol used by

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 http:// - defines transfer protocol (also ftp, gopher, tel)

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Older “text-based” browsers

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 Can be organized into “folders”

 If you like it, bookmark it!

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 Occupational Medicine - OCC-ENV-MED-L

 Medical Center Occupational Health Mailing

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 Industrial Hygiene - AIHAIH-LIST

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 Confidentiality and privacy issues

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