Watterson Andrew, LaDou Joseph
Occupational, Environmental and Health Research Group, RG Bomont Building (R3T11), University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland FK9 4LA.
Int J Occup Environ Health. 2003 Oct-Dec;9(4):392-5. doi: 10.1179/oeh.2003.9.4.392.
Europe plays a major role in the international semiconductor industry, but has conducted few studies of the occupational health of its workers. An exception is in the United Kingdom, where, in two small studies, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) evaluated some health effects of semiconductor work. Neither of these studies, largely restricted to Scotland, produced definitive results, and both were misused by industry to assert that they demonstrated no adverse health effect on workers. The results of the studies prompted semiconductor industry inspections recently completed by the HSE that included chip manufacturers in Scotland and other U.K. areas. The results of these inspections are disappointing.
欧洲在国际半导体行业中扮演着重要角色，但对其工人的职业健康却鲜有研究。英国是个例外，健康与安全执行局（HSE）在两项小型研究中评估了半导体工作对健康的一些影响。这两项研究主要局限于苏格兰，均未得出明确结果，且都被行业滥用，声称它们表明对工人没有不利的健康影响。这些研究结果促使HSE最近完成了对半导体行业的检查，其中包括苏格兰和英国其他地区的芯片制造商。这些检查结果令人失望。
