A Platform of People who are working for Workers Health
Publication date: Available online 27 February 2019Source: Safety and Health at WorkAuthor(s): Seong-Kyu Kang (Source: Safety and Health at Work)
Source: Safety and Health at Work - February 28, 2019 Category: Occupational Health Source Type: research
An Instrumented Workstation to Evaluate Weight-Bearing Distribution in the Sitting Posture
Publication date: Available online 28 January 2019Source: Safety and Health at WorkAuthor(s): Cristiane S. Moriguchi, Tatiana O. Sato, Helenice JC. Gil Coury (Source: Safety and Health at Work)
Source: Safety and Health at Work - February 14, 2019 Category: Occupational Health Source Type: research
Sickness Presenteeism among the Self-employed and Employed in Northwestern Europe—The Importance of Time Demands
ConclusionThe results confirm that the level of sickness presenteeism is higher among the self-employed and that high time demands are a major explanation to this. (Source: Safety and Health at Work)
Source: Safety and Health at Work - January 31, 2019 Category: Occupational Health Source Type: research
An instrumented workstation to evaluate weight bearing distribution in sitting posture
Publication date: Available online 28 January 2019Source: Safety and Health at WorkAuthor(s): Cristiane S. Moriguchi, Tatiana O. Sato, Helenice JC. Gil Coury (Source: Safety and Health at Work)
Source: Safety and Health at Work - January 29, 2019 Category: Occupational Health Source Type: research
An analysis of individual and social factors affecting occupational accidents
ConclusionIt can be concluded that although previous studies and the present study showed the effect of stress on accident and accident proneness, some hidden and external factors such as work-family conflict, effort-reward imbalance, external locus of control, affect stress should also be considered. It helps industries face with less occupational stress and, consequently, less occurrence rate of accidents. (Source: Safety and Health at Work)
Source: Safety and Health at Work - January 21, 2019 Category: Occupational Health Source Type: research
Comparison of the impact of an optimized ice cooling vest and a paraffin cooling vest on physiological and perceptual strain
Conclusions: the optimized ice cooling vest was as effective as the commercial paraffin cooling vest to control the thermal strain. However, ice has a greater latent heat and less production cost. (Source: Safety and Health at Work)
Source: Safety and Health at Work - January 20, 2019 Category: Occupational Health Source Type: research
Exposure to atmospheric particulates and associated respirable deposition dose to street vendors at residential and commercial site in Dehradun city
Publication date: Available online 19 January 2019Source: Safety and Health at WorkAuthor(s): Vignesh Prabhu, Sunil Kumar Gupta, Sandeep Madhwal, Vijay Shridhar (Source: Safety and Health at Work)
Source: Safety and Health at Work - January 20, 2019 Category: Occupational Health Source Type: research
Sickness presenteeism among self-employed and employed in northwestern europe – the importance of time demands
ConclusionResults confirm that the level of sickness presenteeism is higher among the self-employed and that high time demands is a major explanation. (Source: Safety and Health at Work)
Source: Safety and Health at Work - January 12, 2019 Category: Occupational Health Source Type: research
Workplace diesel exhausts and gasoline exposure and risk of colorectal cancer in four Nordic countries
ConclusionThis study showed a small risk increase for rectal cancer following workplace diesel exhaust exposure. However, this finding could be due to chance given the limitations of the study. (Source: Safety and Health at Work)
Source: Safety and Health at Work - January 10, 2019 Category: Occupational Health Source Type: research
Workplace Employees' Annual Physical Checkup and During Hire on the Job to Increase Health-care Awareness Perception to Prevent Disease Risk: A Work for Policy-Implementable Option Globally
ConclusionsHealth care and awareness perception of states, organizations, employees, and families improves with annual health checkup, and annual health checkup also prevents unhealthy acts. (Source: Safety and Health at Work)
Source: Safety and Health at Work - December 21, 2018 Category: Occupational Health Source Type: research
Occupational safety and health among young workers in the Nordic countries: A systematic literature review
Publication date: Available online 21 December 2018Source: Safety and Health at WorkAuthor(s): Therese N. Hanvold, Pete Kines, Mikko Nykänen, Sara Thomèe, Kari A. Holte, Jukka Vuori, Morten Wærsted, Kaj B. VeierstedAbstractThis review aimed to identify risk factors for occupational accidents and illness among young workers in the Nordic countries, and to attain knowledge on specific vulnerable groups within the young working force that may need special attention. We conducted a systematic review from 1994-2014 using five online databases. Of the 12,528 retrieved papers, 54 met the review criteria and were quality assess...
Source: Safety and Health at Work - December 21, 2018 Category: Occupational Health Source Type: research
Evaluation of matrix effects in quantifying microbial secondary metabolites in indoor dust using ultra performance liquid chromatograph-tandem mass spectrometer
ConclusionWe found that dust MEs resulted in substantial underestimation in quantifying MSMs and that DOM was not an optimal universal ISTD for the adjustment, but that the MMC method resulted in more accurate and precise recovery compared to DOM. More research on adjustment methods for dust MEs in the simultaneous analyses of multiple microbial secondary metabolites using LC-MSMS is warranted. (Source: Safety and Health at Work)
Source: Safety and Health at Work - December 21, 2018 Category: Occupational Health Source Type: research
Occupational Risks in Midwifery: From Bernardino Ramazzini to Modern Times
Publication date: Available online 1 December 2018Source: Safety and Health at WorkAuthor(s): Tommaso Bianchi, Michael Belingheri, Antonella Nespoli, Giovanni De Vito, Michele A. RivaAbstractOccupational risks are often underestimated in midwifery. It is not commonly known that occupational risks were originally described by the Italian physician Bernardino Ramazzini (1633–1714) at the beginning of the 18th century. Our aim was to describe occupational risks in midwifery from Ramazzini to modern times. The original text by Bernardino Ramazzini was analyzed. A review of modern scientific articles on occupational risks in ...
Source: Safety and Health at Work - December 19, 2018 Category: Occupational Health Source Type: research
Contributors to fatigue of mine workers in the South African gold and platinum sector
ConclusionThe aim of the study was achieved; numerous work-, socio-demographic-, lifestyle-, and wellness-related factors were linked to fatigue in the participating mine workers. Contributors to fatigue should be addressed to improve health, safety and sustainability in the industry. (Source: Safety and Health at Work)
Source: Safety and Health at Work - December 17, 2018 Category: Occupational Health Source Type: research
Leading for safety: A question of leadership focus
ConclusionThe most important thing for leaders aiming at improving workplace safety is to continuously emphasize safety, both in their communication and by acting as role models. This highlights the importance for leadership training programs aiming to improve safety to actually focus on safety promoting communication and behaviors rather than general leadership. Furthermore, an overly monitoring and controlling leadership style can be detrimental to attempts at achieving improved workplace safety. (Source: Safety and Health at Work)
Source: Safety and Health at Work - December 8, 2018 Category: Occupational Health Source Type: research
