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Please help with the following problem: You are to further develop controls for hazards, specifically work place lung cancer, that are causing the diseases or injuries experienced by the employees in your corporation.
1) Discuss which of the methods that control hazards along the path from the hazard to the worker and at the level of the worker are more appropriate for controlling your subject disease or injury.
2) Briefly describe why the other methods may not be appropriate or effective, as you justify your selection.

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1) Discuss which of the methods that control hazards along the path from the hazard to the worker and at the level of the worker are more appropriate for controlling your subject disease or injury.

One of the first controls that I would use in order to combat the incidents of lung cancer experienced by employees at my corporation would be to immediately ban smoking within the facility. I would advocate a policy in which all smoking would take ...

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