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Jerome Spear, CSP, CIH, is managing member of J.E. Spear Consulting, LLC and has over 15 years of experience helping organizations prevent and control losses through the application of incident prevention and exposure control techniques. He can be reached at (281) 252-0005 or jerome.spear@jespear.com.
The better our understanding of exposures and the risks they pose, the more assurance we have that we are controlling the most important (highest risk) exposures first. Control efforts (such as engineering, work practice, or personal protective equipment) are often costly to implement and maintain.
The exact number of occupational diseases that occur in the United States is unknown; however, most occupational disease cases that are litigated involve multiple defendants.
