Occupational Health Branch
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Aerosol Transmissible Disease Standards (California)
Aircraft disinsection and pesticide illness in flight attendants - journal abstract, 2007
Anthrax: laboratory exposure - MMWR report
Arsenic & chromate wood preservatives - fact sheet (PDF)
Artificial flavoring and lung disease – see also, diacetyl fact sheet (PDF) | Spanish fact sheet
Asthma - work-related asthma projects, activities, and materials from the Work-Related Asthma Prevention Program (see also, fragrances, glutaraldehyde, graffiti cleaning products, pool chemicals, cleaning for asthma-safe schools, wood dust)
Asthma - California Work-Related Asthma Report
Asthma-causing agents: identification and regulation - journal abstract
Autism - Examining Maternal Occupational Exposures and Autism – journal abstract
Auto Repair/Maintenance - fatal workplace injury fact sheets | investigations
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Bacillus anthracis: laboratory exposure - MMWR report
Bed bugs – pesticide hazard alert
Bloodborne pathogens – Shared Tagging Guns and Bloodborne Disease Risk (PDF)
Brazilian Blowout & other hair smoothing salon treatments (PDF) – Q & A fact sheet (see also Salon Resources)
1-Bromopropane (n-Propyl Bromide) Hazard Alert (PDF)
Bronchiolitis Obliterans (Flavoring-Related Lung Disease)
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Carpal tunnel syndrome – see ergonomics, ergonomics and dental hygiene, MMWR report on state data
Car Wash Attendant Killed! (PDF) | Spanish
Chemicals - fatal workplace injury investigations
Chemicals - see California Safe Cosmetics Program, Hazard Evaluation System and Information Service, Work-Related Asthma Prevention Program, Occupational Pesticide Illness Prevention Program
Childcare - see
Cleaning for Asthma-Safe Schools
Chlorine Gas Release at Two Scrap Recycling Facilities (PDF) | Spanish – chemical release alerts | MMWR report
Chromium-6 in the Workplace (PDF) – fact sheet
Cleaning products - and work-related asthma (see also Cleaning for Asthma-Safe Schools)
Coccidioidomycosis (Valley fever) - work-related coccidioidomycosis
Confined Space -
fatal workplace injury investigations
Construction (see also falls, fatalities, fatal falls in construction, lead poisoning, skylights, solar)
Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Protecting Workers from COVID-19 on the Job
Cosmetics - California Safe Cosmetics Program (see also Brazilian Blow-out (PDF), formaldehyde (PDF), fragrances and work-related asthma, methyl methacrylate (PDF), nail salons, toluene (PDF))
Cosmetics - California Safe Cosmetics Program Reportable Ingredients List (PDF) | Spanish | Vietnamese
Cosmetics Containing Ingredients Linked to Cancer or Reproductive Harm (PDF): Data Reported to the California Safe Cosmetics Program, 2009 - 2015
Cosmetics Products Database - searchable database of cosmetics containing ingredients linked to cancer or reproductive harm reported to CDPH
COVID-19 - Protecting Workers from COVID-19 on the Job
Cycloheximide Hazard Alert (PDF)
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Data - from Occupational Health Branch programs
Dental hygienists – Ergonomics and Dental Hygiene
Diesel Engine Exhaust Hazard Alert (PDF)
Diacetyl - Flavorings-related lung disease
Diisocyanates: Isocyanates and Work-Related Asthma – journal abstract
Disinfectants – and work-related asthma
Disinfectants – Acute illness and injury from swimming pool disinfectants – MMWR report, 2011 (see also pool chemicals and asthma)
Drowning – Preventing worker drownings
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Electrocution - workplace fatality investigations
Electronic Waste Recycling: Working Safely (PDF) | Spanish
Energy Production - Protecting workers from hydrocarbon gases and vapors - video, action page | fatality investigations
Epoxy resin systems - fact sheet (PDF)
Ergonomics - factsheets and guides – (see also Ergonomics and Dental Hygiene)
Ergonomics - Guide to Getting Medical Care for Job-Related Pain That Won't Go Away (PDF)
Ergonomics - Physician's Guide to the California Ergonomics Standard (PDF)
Essential Oils - Investigation into Potential for Employee Exposures to Essential Oils Used to Treat Patients at a California Surgery Center (PDF) – workplace investigation, 2019
Ethylene oxide - fact sheet (PDF)
Explosions/Fire - workplace fatality investigations
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Falls (see also Fall Prevention Tailgate Training, fatal workplace falls, fatal falls in construction, Preventing Falls in the Solar Industry, Preventing Falls through Skylights)
Fatal workplace injuries - Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program
Firing ranges - Point Blank: Lead Hazards at Indoor Firing Ranges (PDF) - fact sheet for range owners
Firefighters - Firefighter Fatality Investigation & Prevention Program | Training for Wildland Firefighters on Preventing Valley Fever (PDF) – tailgate training
Flavorings-related lung disease
Fluorocarbons (freons) - fact sheet (PDF)
Forklifts – fatal construction injury fact sheet (PDF) | machine-related fatal workplace injury investigations
Formaldehyde - fact sheet (PDF)
Fragrances - and work-related asthma
Fumigation- Bank workers become ill after fumigation (PDF) – pesticide hazard alert (see also pesticide illness prevention)
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Garment workers - Sewing Machine Operators: Feel Better! Work Better! (PDF, English) | Spanish
Glutaraldehyde - fact sheet (PDF)
Glutaraldehyde and heart valve manufacturing investigation report (PDF) - executive summary (see also journal abstract - Glutaraldehyde Exposures Among Workers Making Bioprosthetic Heart Valves)
Glycol ethers - fact sheet (PDF)
Graffiti removal chemicals, and work-related asthma - Removing Graffiti Safely (PDF)
Green cleaning, preventing work-related asthma - Cleaning Products & Disinfectants (see also Cleaning for Asthma-Safe Schools)
Grocery Cashiers – Serving Customers Shouldn't Hurt You (PDF)
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Hantavirus - Work-Related Hantavirus Exposures at Yosemite National Park (PDF) - investigation report | Worker fact sheet (PDF)
Hantavirus - Assessing prevention measures and Sin Nombre hantavirus seroprevalence among workers at Yosemite National Park – journal abstract
Health care - respirator use in health care workplaces
Heat illness - Risk factors for occupational heat-related illness among California workers, 2000-2017 – journal abstract
Hepatitis C - fact sheet (PDF)
Hexane - see n-Hexane
Highway and street work zone fatality investigations
HIV - Occupational HIV transmission among male adult film performers—multiple states, 2014 – MMWR report
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Indicators – California Occupational Health Indicators – data on work-related injuries, illnesses, and factors that can influence worker health
Injuries, work-related – see ergonomics, falls, fatal workplace injuries
Isocyanates - fact sheet (PDF)
Isocyanates – Isocyanates and work-related asthma (PDF) - journal article
Isoflurane may harm veterinary worker health (PDF) - workplace hazard update
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Jackstands - Falling vehicles kill: Jackstand safety - fact sheet (PDF) | Spanish (see also auto repair & maintenance fact sheets, fatality investigation reports)
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Lab Workers – Take the Pain Out of Pipetting (PDF)
Laboratory exposure to anthrax - MMWR report
Ladders - see Falls, BuildSafe tailgate trainings, "Lead's Revenge" ladder safety training video
Landscaping & Tree Trimming Safety Resources - fact sheets, reports, & videos to prevent fatalities at work | fatality investigations
Lead – work-related lead poisoning - projects, activities, videos, and materials from the Occupational Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
Lead - Blood Lead Levels in California Workers, 2012-2014 (PDF) - data from the California Occupational Blood Lead Registry
Lead hazards at shooting ranges
Lead - medical management of lead-exposed workers
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Machinery and equipment – fatal workplace injury fact sheets | investigations
Medical Waste Disposal: Transforming Practices to Protect Public Health (PDF, 1.6 MB) – Worker Health and Safety and Large Scale, Off-Site Steam Autoclaves
Mercury - Dangerous Skin-Lightening Creams Found in SF Bay Area Stores (PDF, English) | Chinese | Spanish | Tagalog | Vietnamese
Mercury in the Workplace (PDF) - fact sheet
Methyl Bromide (PDF) - fact sheet
Methylene Chloride - Preventing Worker Deaths from Paint Strippers Containing Methylene Chloride; safer alternatives
Methylene Chloride (PDF) - fact sheet
Methyl Methacrylate (PDF) - fact sheet
Microfiber – Cleaning for Asthma-Safe Schools: Information for Teachers (PDF)
Molds in indoor workplaces (PDF) - fact sheet (see also CDPH Environmental Health Laboratory: Indoor Air Quality)
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n-Hexane (PDF) - medical care guidelines
N-Hexane-Related Peripheral Neuropathy Among Automotive Technicians, California, 1999-2000 – MMWR report
n-Hexane Use in Vehicle Repair Hazard Alert (PDF)
n-Methylpyrrolidone (NMP) Health Hazard Advisory (PDF)
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Occupational Health Indicators - data on work-related injuries, illnesses, and factors that can influence worker health
Occupational Illness: see asthma, flavoring-related lung disease, lead poisoning, pesticide illness, Valley fever
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Painters – Lead's Revenge - training video in English and Spanish
Painters – work-related lead poisoning (see Lead in the Workplace)
Paint removers – methylene chloride hazards and safer alternatives - video, action page
Palm trees – Preventing Palm Tree Trimmer Fatalities – video, action page (see also landscaping & tree trimming)
PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls)(PDF) - fact sheet
Perchloroethylene (PDF) - fact sheet
Perfume – fragrances and work-related asthma
Pesticides - work-related pesticide illness activities and publications
Pool chemical safety - preventing work-related asthma, illness, and injury from swimming pool disinfectants
Pregnancy and reproductive health
Artificial Fingernail Products: A Guide to Chemical Exposures in the Nail Salon (PDF)
Cosmetics Containing Ingredients Linked to Cancer or Reproductive Harm (PDF)
Examining Maternal Occupational Exposures and Autism – journal abstract
Health Dangers from Lead: What Workers Should Know (PDF)
If I'm Pregnant, Can the Chemicals I Work with Harm My Baby? (PDF)
Psychiatric technician dies from a patient assault at a forensic psychiatric facility (PDF) – fatality investigation report
Pulmonary Function Testing (PDF, English) | Spanish
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Rabies virus (PDF) – fact sheet
Radiation, ionizing - Epidemiologic Study to Determine Possible Adverse Effects to Rocketdyne/Atomics International Workers from Exposure to Ionizing Radiation (PDF)
Reactive Airways Dysfunction Syndrome, RADS – journal abstract
Recycling - Cardboard Balers Crush Workers! (PDF) | Spanish | workplace fatality investigations
Recycling - Electronic Waste Recycling: Working Safely (PDF) | Spanish
Reproductive health
Examining Maternal Occupational Exposures and Autism – journal abstract
If I'm Pregnant, Can the Chemicals I Work with Harm My Baby? (PDF)
Respiratory protection in the workplace
Respirator program toolkit for hospital respirator program administrators
Respirator use in healthcare workplaces
Respirators: How to Use Half-Mask Respirators to Prevent Lead Poisoning (PDF)
Retail – Shared Tagging Guns and Bloodborne Disease Risk (PDF)
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Safer alternatives to toxic chemicals in the workplace
Sanitizers – cleaning products/disinfectants and work-related asthma
Scaffolding Fall: Day Laborer Dies When He Falls From a Scaffold (PDF) | Spanish
Scaffolding - see falls, fatal workplace injuries
Schools – Cleaning for Asthma-Safe Schools (see also Work‐related asthma in the educational services industry - journal abstract)
Sewing Machine Operators: Feel Better! Work Better! (PDF, English) | Spanish
Shooting ranges - lead hazards
Silica - Severe Silicosis in Engineered Stone Fabrication Workers — California, Colorado, Texas, and Washington, 2017–2019 – MMWR article
Skylights - preventing falls (see also falls, fatal workplace injuries, fall prevention tailgate trainings
Skylights - Deadly Skylights (PDF, English) | Spanish - fact sheet
Solar industry - preventing falls and injuries (see also falls, fatal workplace injuries, fall prevention tailgate trainings)
Styrene (PDF) - fact sheet
Swimming pools – pool chemicals and illness, injury, and work–related asthma
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Tagging guns - Shared Tagging Guns and Bloodborne Disease Risk (PDF)
Tailgate training materials - construction, fall prevention, preventing Valley fever in wildland firefighters
Toluene (PDF) - fact sheet
Toxic substances - see California Safe Cosmetics Program, Hazard Evaluation System and Information Service, Work-Related Asthma Prevention Program, Occupational Pesticide Illness Prevention Program
Toxic Substances - Understanding Toxic Substances (1.3 MB, PDF)
Tree trimming – landscaping and tree trimming, preventing palm tree trimming fatalities, wood chipper fatalities
Trenches – Plumber Dies in Trench Cave-in! (PDF) | Spanish – fact sheet
Trenches - Strategies to Prevent Trenching-Related Injuries and Deaths (PDF) – report
1,1,1-Trichloroethane (PDF) - fact sheet
Trichloroethylene (TCE) (PDF) - fact sheet
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Valley fever (Coccidioidomycosis)
Vehicle-related fatalities | fatality investigations
Veterinary workers - Isoflurane may harm veterinary worker health (PDF)
Violence - Psychiatric technician dies from a patient assault at a forensic psychiatric facility (PDF)
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Warehouse Workers – Take the Hurt Out of Handling Materials (PDF) | workplace fatality investigations
Water, working around - Preventing worker drownings
Wood chippers – preventing fatal workplace injuries (see also landscaping and tree-trimming)
Wood dust and work-related asthma
Wood preservatives containing arsenic and chromates (PDF) - fact sheet
Work-related asthma
Work-Related Asthma Prevention Program
Work-Related Asthma: What You Should Know (PDF) | Spanish (PDF) | Chinese (PDF) | Korean (PDF) | Tagalog (PDF) | Vietnamese (PDF) – fact sheets
Work-Related Asthma: Findings from Statewide Tracking (PDF) | Spanish | Chinese | Korean | Tagalog | Vietnamese - fact sheet, 2019
A Descriptive Study of Work-Aggravated Asthma – journal abstract
Workplace violence - fatality investigations
Work-related illness – see asthma, flavorings-related lung disease, chemical hazards, lead poisoning, pesticide illness, Valley fever
Work-related injury – see ergonomics, falls, fatal workplace injuries
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Xylene (PDF) - fact sheet
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Young worker health and safety - Your CTE Safety Program: Safe Students, Safe Workers (PDF) | Materials for Teachers
Young workers - fatality investigations