(December 2012) Fort Lesley J. McNair is a United States Army post located on the tip of Greenleaf Point, the peninsula that lies at the confluence of the Potomac River and the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C. To the peninsula's west is the Washington Channel, while the Anacostia River is on its south side.
In many industrialized countries, where the number of deaths from work-related accidents has been falling, deaths from occupational disease, notably asbestosis, is on the rise. Globally, asbestos alone is responsible for 100,000 occupational deaths per year.
Occupational and work-related diseases. An âoccupational diseaseâ is any disease contracted primarily as a result of an exposure to risk factors arising from work activity. âWork-related diseasesâ have multiple causes, where factors in the work environment may play a role, together with other risk factors, in the development of such diseases.