title: Exposure of workers to toxic substances and physical hazards: the law in theory and practice.
abstract: Israel has an enviable legal framework to protect the worker from exposure to dangerous substances at the workplace: a duty of the employer to inform the worker of exposure to dangerous substances; a duty of the employer and the occupational doctor to report exposure, disease and death to the factory inspectorate; and a comprehensive network of occupational doctors in place to find early symptoms of exposure in order to prevent disease. Unfortunately this framework has not been effective enough. In some instances--the Isabest factory in Naharia and the Tadiran factory in Ekron--the system has failed miserably.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Laster
mesh_terms: D015386:Hazardous Substances; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D009787:Occupational Medicine
chemical_list: D015386:Hazardous Substances