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The examination of managers' personal determinants that encourage or thwart notification of workers about hazards in their workplaces was investigated. One hundred and six managers and their 460 workers in 40 departments at three public sector industrial facilities in Israel were invited to participate in the study. Managers' perception of risks and model of notification, as well as workers' perception of risks and effectiveness of notification efforts were considered in the study. Significant differences between managers and workers were found on the following variables: perception of the use and importance of notification and hazards and the mode in which information about risks was delivered. Both of these variables were quite high with regard to perception of the use and importance of notification. Managers attached less importance to information about safety procedures and hazards than workers. A significant difference was noted between managers and workers with regard to ways of communicating about risks. Managers reported using a personal mode of communication far more often than workers. Workers and managers agreed that immediate supervisors more often notify than other work functionaries. Multiple regression analysis indicated that the greater a manager's sense of self efficacy and positive outcome expectations, the more often workers perceived receiving information about work hazards. The greater the denial by managers of work risks, the less workers reported receiving information about work hazards. The higher a manager's self efficacy cognition, the more often they used the personal mode of communication.

"Reform No. 5 of the Louisville Charter addresses the pervasive lack of publicly available information about the effects of many chemicals on human health and the environment. This lack of information persists for the majority of chemicals in commerce because the current laws in the United States do not systematically require it to be produced or motivate its voluntary production. These information gaps undermine the effectiveness of the existing environmental statutes, the liability system, the ability of the market to stimulate development of safer chemicals and, if they persist, complete realization of the other elements of the Louisville Charter. Therefore, this Reform calls for manufacturers of chemicals to be required to provide health and safety information as a condition for placing and keeping a chemical on the market. "

The manual has been developed to help empower workers to increase their level of control over their own work situations, to protect their health and well being, and to improve their level of basic security. This is a practical guide, providing workers, and employers, with tools to: identify work security problems, tackle problems from a worker centred perspective, use barefoot research tools, use the results of Barefoot Research to improve their work security, organize for work security.

"The preceding paper described our numerical index of carcinogenic potency, the TD50 and the statistical procedures adopted for estimating it from experimental data. This paper presents the Carcinogenic Potency Database, which includes results of about 3000 long-term, chronic experiments of 770 test compounds. Part II is a discussion of the sources of our data, the rationale for the inclusion of particular experiments and particular target sites, and the conventions adopted in summarizing the literature. Part III is a guide to the plot of results presented in Part IV. A number of appendices are provided to facilitate use of the database. The plot includes information about chronic cancer tests in mammals, such as dose and other aspects of experimental protocol, histopathology and tumor incidence, TD50 and its statistical significance, dose response, author's opinion and literature reference. The plot readily permits comparisons of carcinogenic potency and many other aspects of cancer tests; it also provides quantitative information about negative tests. The range of carcinogenic potency is over 10 million-fold."