Deaths from pesticide poisoning in south korea: trends over 10 years
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Conclusions Pesticide poisoning deaths substantially increased during the 10-year study period, and showed demographic, seasonal and regional
variations. More intensive intervention efforts to reduce pesticide mortality should become a public health priority in South
Korea.
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Original ArticleDOI 10.1007/s00420-008-0343-zAuthors
Won Jin Lee, Korea University Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Graduate School of Public Health Seoul 136-705 South KoreaEun Shil Cha, Korea University Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Graduate Sch...
Source: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health - July 4, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Tags: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health Source Type: journals
Residents concerned over ithaca gun factory remediation
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Ithaca, New York – Closed since the late 1980s, the Ithaca Gun Factory is now planned for demolition and remediation, but local residents are worried that the budget for the planned project isn’t big enough to get the job finished.
The state Department of Environmental Conservation held a meeting at City Hall to discuss the project, and several community residents voiced their concerns about the budget for the clean up, which is just $2.2 million. The proposed budget will cover both demolition and remediation for the site, and locals are concerned that’s just not enough money to complete the entire project.
Local S...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - July 3, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: asbestos-post Tags: Asbestos Exposure Asbestos Abatement Source Type: news
Epa to conduct air tests at iowa tornado site
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The Environmental Protection Agency will monitor air samples in Parkersburg, Iowa as part of the massive continuing clean-up efforts in the wake of the EF-5 tornado which swept through the area on May 25, killing six people and injuring almost seventy others.
EPA Region 7 personnel will be testing for asbestos and other particulates in the air, to ensure that it is safe for residents to return to their homes, and safe for non-residents who are providing assistance with clean-up and rebuilding efforts..
The testing will be carried out by EPA on-scene coordinators beginning Tuesday June 10, and will continue for as long a...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - July 3, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: asbestos-post Tags: Asbestos Exposure Source Type: news
Tracing the timing of "career" acquisition in a contemporary youth cohort.
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TRACING THE TIMING OF "CAREER" ACQUISITION IN A CONTEMPORARY YOUTH COHORT.
Work Occup. 2008;35(1):44-84
Authors: Mortimer JT, Vuolo M, Staff J, Wakefield S, Xie W
Contemporary youth typically experience considerable floundering and uncertainty in their transition from school to work. This paper examines patterns of schooling and working during adolescence and the transition to adulthood that hasten or delay an important subjective marker of transition to adulthood: acquiring a job that is recognized as a "career." We use Youth Development Study data, obtained from a prospective longitudinal study of 9(th) grade...
Source: Work and Occupations - July 3, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Mortimer JT, Vuolo M, Staff J, Wakefield S, Xie W Tags: Work Occup Source Type: journals
Exposure to organic solvents and cytogenetic damage in exfoliated cells of the buccal mucosa from shoe workers
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Conclusions Toluene shows an important genotoxic effect. As the micronuclei test is an effective, fast, simple and low cost biomarker
to identify cytogenetic effects, we suggest its utilization as a preventive test of genotoxicity.
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Original ArticleDOI 10.1007/s00420-008-0344-yAuthors
A. L. González-Yebra, Universidad de Guanajuato Instituto de Investigaciones sobre el Trabajo Leon Guanajuato MexicoC. Kornhauser, Universidad de Guanajuato Instituto de Investigaciones Médicas 20 de Enero 929, Centro CP 37320 Leon Guanajuato MexicoG. Barbosa-Sabanero, Universidad de ...
Source: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health - July 3, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Tags: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health Source Type: journals
U.k. mesothelioma ruling may deny compensation to thousands
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A controversial ruling by the United Kingdom’s House of Lords may end up denying thousands of people compensation for asbestos-related diseases if it is not overturned.
Since the ruling was made last year, the U.K. government has been discussing options to handle the situation, and has plans to publish a consultation paper on the issue later this month.
The House of Lords ruling concerns people suffering from an asbestos-related condition called pleural plaques. The plaques develop in response to asbestos exposure, and are sometimes a precursor to mesothelioma; however the pleural plaques are themselves a benign condit...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - June 30, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: asbestos-post Tags: Asbestos Exposure Source Type: news
Asbestos found in illinois firehouse
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Homewood, Illinois – Asbestos was discovered at the Homewood Fire Station at 17950 Dixie Highway in Homewood, Illinois, and testing is now underway to determine how much airborne asbestos is present in the building.
Village manager Mark Franz says that a small amount of asbestos may have been disturbed during some renovation work which was carried out on a water-damaged wall on the north side of the fire station. The work was carried out two weeks ago by a Homewood-based business, Rickoff Remodeling.
“It was just a small amount [of asbestos] discovered,” said Franz. “Unless a major problem is discovered through t...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - June 30, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: asbestos-post Tags: Asbestos Exposure Asbestos Abatement Source Type: news
Low-level lead exposure among south korean lead workers, and estimates of associated risk of cardiovascular diseases
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Source: Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene - June 28, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Kim, Kyeong-RanLee, Sang-WonPaik, Nam WonChoi, Kyungho Source Type: journals
Sio2 aerosol nanoparticle reactor for occupational health and safety studies
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Source: Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene - June 28, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Ostraat, MicheleSwain, KeithKrajewski, James Source Type: journals
Measurement of the physical properties of aerosols in a fullerene factory for inhalation exposure assessment
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Source: Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene - June 28, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Fujitani, YujiKobayashi, TakahiroArashidani, KeiichiKunugita, NaokiSuemura, Kouji Source Type: journals
Results of inspections in health hazard industries in a region of the state of washington
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Source: Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene - June 28, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Lofgren, Don Source Type: journals
Phenyl mercuric acetate (pma): mercury-bearing flexible gymnasium floors in schools - evaluation of hazards and controlled abatement
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Source: Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene - June 28, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Beaulieu, HarryBeaulieu, SerritaBrown, Chris Source Type: journals
Evaluation of the pdr-1200 real-time aerosol monitor
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Source: Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene - June 28, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Benton-Vitz, KailaVolckens, John Source Type: journals
A study quantifying the hand-to-face contact rate and its potential application to predicting respiratory tract infection
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Source: Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene - June 28, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Nicas, MarkBest, Daniel Source Type: journals
Errata
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Source: Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene - June 28, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Source Type: journals
Continuing education - "the action level"
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Source: Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene - June 28, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Pierce, J. Thomas Source Type: journals
Engineering case reports
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Source: Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene - June 28, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Old, LeoMethner, Mark Source Type: journals
Prevalence of workplace bullying and risk groups: a representative population study
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Conclusions These findings suggest that types of work and gender ratio are risk factors in the onset of workplace bullying. Future studies
should take into account the type of work and the gender ratio of the organization.
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Short CommunicationDOI 10.1007/s00420-008-0339-8Authors
Adriana Ortega, National Research Centre for the Working Environment Lersø Parkallé 105 2100 Copenhagen DenmarkAnnie Høgh, National Research Centre for the Working Environment Lersø Parkallé 105 2100 Copenhagen DenmarkJan Hyld Pejtersen, National Research Centre for the Working Environme...
Source: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health - June 27, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Tags: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health Source Type: journals
Do older drivers pose a risk to other road users?
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CONCLUSIONS: Based on two of the three bases (per population and per licence), it has been strongly asserted that overall, the older the driver, the less the threat to other road users--and particularly, the less the threat to road users external to the driver's vehicle. Drivers aged 80 years and older appeared to be the greatest threat to other road users only when per distance fatality rates were compared.
PMID: 18570138 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Traffic Injury Prevention)
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - June 25, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Langford J, Bohensky M, Koppel S, Newstead S Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: journals
Driving behavior under the influence of cannabis or cocaine.
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CONCLUSIONS: The findings indicate that both cannabis and cocaine have detrimental but different effects on driving. The negative physical effects of cannabis may reduce the likelihood of driving under the influence of cannabis.
PMID: 18570139 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Traffic Injury Prevention)
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - June 25, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: MacDonald S, Mann R, Chipman M, Pakula B, Erickson P, Hathaway A, MacIntyre P Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: journals
Fatal drink-driving accidents of young adult and middle-aged males--a risky driving style or risky lifestyle?
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CONCLUSIONS: It was concluded that for young adult males drink-driving was a part of a more general risky driving style. Among middle-aged males drink-driving was more related to a risky lifestyle with drinking problems. Possible countermeasures are discussed with regard to drink-driving among young adult and middle-aged males.
PMID: 18570140 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Traffic Injury Prevention)
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - June 25, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Laapotti S, Keskinen E Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: journals
Work schedules of long-distance truck drivers before and after 2004 hours-of-service rule change.
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CONCLUSIONS: Reported truck driver fatigue increased after the new rule was implemented, suggesting that the rule change may not have achieved the goal of reducing fatigued driving. Reported violations of the work rules remain common. Because many trucks already have electronic recorders, requiring them as a means of monitoring driving hours appears feasible.
PMID: 18570141 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Traffic Injury Prevention)
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - June 25, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: McCartt AT, Hellinga LA, Solomon MG Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: journals
Observational failures/distraction and disease attack/incapacity as cause(s) of fatal road crashes in finland.
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CONCLUSIONS: OFD as an immediate cause of FMVA began to play a role from the age of 60 years onwards. The role of health conditions as a cause of FMVA was higher than expected. Cardiovascular disease (70%) was found to be the leading medical condition that inhibited the driving task among the DA related to FMVA in Finland.
PMID: 18570142 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Traffic Injury Prevention)
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - June 25, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Tervo TM, Neira W, Kivioja A, Sulander P, Parkkari K, Holopainen JM Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: journals
Attitudes of teenagers and their parents to pennsylvania's graduated driver licensing system.
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CONCLUSIONS: In PA, the primary stakeholders, teen drivers and their parents, were poorly informed about teen crash risk. Parents were very positive and teens are generally neutral or weakly positive about the new restrictions imposed by the enhanced graduated driver licensing system. Better understanding of the crash rate for teen drivers might increase approval of system restrictions, enhance compliance, and further strengthen the system.
PMID: 18570143 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Traffic Injury Prevention)
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - June 25, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: McKay MP, Coben JH, Larkin GL, Shaffer A Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: journals
Parent attitudes toward integrating parent involvement into teenage driver education courses.
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CONCLUSIONS: That the majority of parents are open to required involvement in their teenagers' driver education classes is promising because doing so could better prepare parents to understand and adhere to GDL policies, supervise teenagers' practice driving, and manage teen independent driving, all of which could further increase teen driver safety.
PMID: 18570144 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Traffic Injury Prevention)
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - June 25, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Hartos J, Huff DC Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: journals
Fatalities of children 0-7 years old in the second row.
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CONCLUSIONS: Children seated behind the driver have a lower fatality risk than those seated behind the right-front passenger. The higher risk to right second-row children is from near-side impacts at 3-4 o'clock and rollovers. In terms of priorities, rollovers, side impacts, and frontal crashes cause most fatalities. The highest risks for 0-to 7-year-old children in the second-row are in near-side impacts and rollovers.
PMID: 18570145 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Traffic Injury Prevention)
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - June 25, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Viano DC, Parenteau CS Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: journals
Booster seat use in an inner-city day care center population.
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CONCLUSIONS: This is the first observational study of booster seat use in this Milwaukee population with appropriate restraint use varying widely from reported state and national data. The low rates of appropriate booster seat use, particularly by Latino and African American caregivers and those living in low-income neighborhoods, in this large metropolitan center supports the need for further study and targeted interventions.
PMID: 18570146 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Traffic Injury Prevention)
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - June 25, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Brixey S, Guse CE, Meurer J Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: journals
Load limiting behavior in crs tether anchors as a method to mitigate head and neck injuries sustained by children in frontal crash.
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CONCLUSION: Implementation of load-limiting behavior in the upper tether and lower LATCH anchors of the child restraint system effectively reduces the head and neck injuries sustained by toddlers in a frontal vehicle crash while controlling forward head excursion within the limits as defined by NHTSA.
PMID: 18570147 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Traffic Injury Prevention)
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - June 25, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Kapoor T, Altenhof W, Tot M, Zhang W, Howard A, Rasico J, Zhu F, Mizuno K Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: journals
Prevalence and issues in non-use of safety belts and child restraints in a high-income developing country: lessons for the future.
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CONCLUSIONS: SB legislation failed to protect the population, with low use of restraints by citizens, military, and police, and virtually none among children and rear passengers. Lessons include the necessity of drafting laws that provide comprehensive and effective protection, study of cultural constraints to compliance with injury prevention measures, and locally effective interventions to prepare citizens and enforcers for the expected new behaviour. Highly tinted glass is widespread and poses a barrier to enforcement.
PMID: 18570148 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Traffic Injury Prevention)
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - June 25, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Barss P, Al-Obthani M, Al-Hammadi A, Al-Shamsi H, El-Sadig M, Grivna M Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: journals
Environmental and psychosocial factors affecting seat belt use among turkish front-seat occupants in ankara: two observation studies.
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CONCLUSIONS: Overall, low seat belt use rate (25%) among the front-seat occupants should be increased urgently for an improved driver and passenger safety in Turkey. Seat belt campaigns especially tailored for male front-seat occupants and for the front-seat occupants traveling on city roads are needed to increase seat belt use rates among them. Also, both drivers and passengers may have an important role in enforcing seat belt use among themselves.
PMID: 18570149 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Traffic Injury Prevention)
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - June 25, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Simşekoğlu O, Lajunen T Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: journals
Injury severity, vehicle safety features, and intersection crashes.
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CONCLUSION: These results emphasize the effectiveness of seat belt use, especially three-point seat belts, the inclusion of airbags in all vehicles, increased awareness of possible injuries from airbags deploying, signalized intersection designs that include pedestrian crossing signals, and additional research to identify the predominant types of injuries associated with airbags deploying.
PMID: 18570150 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Traffic Injury Prevention)
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - June 25, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Obeng K Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: journals
The moderating role of goal orientation in the workload-frustration relationship.
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Goal orientation was hypothesized to moderate the relationship between quantitative workload and frustration. Based on data from 460 graduate students, two forms of goal orientation moderated this relationship. Specifically, it was found that workload was positively related to frustration for people with high levels of avoiding goal orientation, but not for those with low levels of avoiding goal orientation. In addition, it was found that the positive effect of workload on frustration was weaker for people with high levels of mastery goal orientation than for those with low levels of mastery goal orientation. Both theoreti...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - June 25, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Whinghter, L. Jean; Cunningham, Christopher J. L.; Wang, Mo; Burnfield, Jennifer L. Source Type: journals
The interactive effects of proactive personality and work-family interference on well-being.
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Proactive personality was expected to moderate the relationship between controllable work and nonwork stressors (e.g., time-based work-family interference) and job/life satisfaction. Moderated multiple regression analyses of survey data from a sample of professionals (N=133) revealed a significant interaction between time-based family interfering-with work and proactive personality predicting life satisfaction and several main effects offering partial support for the hypothesized relationships (a (Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology)
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - June 25, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Cunningham, Christopher J. L.; De La Rosa, Gabriel M. Source Type: journals
Does personal initiative training work as a stress management intervention?
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An experimental trial is reported that compares 2 stress management intervention programs and a waitlist control. Both programs involved training in problem-focused strategies of identifying and changing the sources of stress. One of the programs contained additional content on how to display more personal initiative (PI). Both programs involved 2 sessions held 1 week apart, each session lasting 3-4 hr. Strain was measured before training and at 7 and 13 weeks after the initial session. Results show that both programs were effective at reducing strain, whereas the waitlist group showed no change in strain. The PI program i...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - June 25, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Searle, Ben J. Source Type: journals
The double meaning of control: three-way interactions between internal resources, job control, and stressors at work.
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The Job Demand-Control model postulates that job control attenuates the effects of job demands on health and well-being. Support for this interactive effect is rather weak. Conceivably, it holds only when there is a match between job control and individual characteristics that relate to exercising control options, such as locus of control, or self-efficacy. This three-way interaction was tested in a sample of 96 service employees, with affective strain and musculoskeletal pain as dependent variables. As hypothesized, job control attenuated the effects of stressors only for people with an internal locus of control. For peop...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - June 25, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Meier, Laurenz L.; Semmer, Norbert K.; Elfering, Achim; Jacobshagen, Nicola Source Type: journals
Too stressed out to participate? examining the relation between stressors and survey response behavior.
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This study expands on previously proposed survey response and nonresponse frameworks by integrating the job stress literature. The authors investigated whether overload, role ambiguity, and role conflict experienced by individuals relate to survey response behavior. Using organizational citizenship behavior theory and social exchange theory as theoretical frameworks, the authors proposed that nonrespondents experience higher levels of stressors than respondents. Data collected in a longitudinal field study partially supported the hypotheses. As hypothesized, overload increased the likelihood of nonresponse. Contrary to hyp...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - June 25, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Barr, Christopher D.; Spitzmüller, Christiane; Stuebing, Karla K. Source Type: journals
Individual and group cognitive-behavioral treatment for work-related stress complaints and sickness absence: a randomized controlled trial.
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In conclusion, this study adds to the evidence that CBT-based interventions as currently practiced are not successful in treating patients with clinical levels of work-related stress. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology)
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - June 25, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: De Vente, Wieke; Kamphuis, Jan H.; Emmelkamp, Paul M. G.; Blonk, Roland W. B. Source Type: journals
Workplace health friendliness: a cross level model for predicting workers' health.
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Two separate studies conceptualized the health friendliness of a workplace, the first qualitatively through content analysis of interviews with 69 nursing superiors about the means employed by their workplace to promote staff health. Findings supported the conceptualization of workplace health friendliness, which was further validated against the staff's health indicators. The second study tested a model explaining the cross-level effects of workplace health-friendliness initiatives on workers' health. The model depicted workers as rational human beings calculating costs/benefits in deciding whether to commit to those init...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - June 25, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Drach-Zahavy, Anat Source Type: journals
Illinois shopping center closed after possible asbestos exposure
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Joliet, Illinois – A section of the Maycrest Shopping Center in Joliet, Illinois was closed after state health officials became concerned about the possibility of asbestos exposure.
On Wednesday June 4, officials ordered that work on the now-closed section of the shopping mall be stopped, as they believed flooring was being removed without proper safety precautions being taken.
The shopping center was built in the 1950s, is now half empty, and is undergoing renovations. However, this week sees the second time that officials have ordered that renovations be stopped due to concerns over possible asbestos exposure, said J...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - June 23, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: asbestos-post Tags: Asbestos Exposure Source Type: news
The burden of silicosis, pulmonary tuberculosis and copd among former basotho goldminers
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The burden of silicosis, pulmonary tuberculosis and COPD is described in 624 South African gold miners 18 months after cessation of work.This was a prevalence study. Questionnaires were administered, and spirometry, chest radiography, tuberculosis investigations, and urine HIV antibody assays were performed.Attendance was 80.1% (624/779), mean age 49.4 years, and mean employment duration 25.6 years. Most subjects had had medium (26.5%) or high (65.4%) dust-exposure jobs. Current smoking rate was 35%, with ever smoking 61%. HIV antibodies were detected in the urine in 22.3%. Prevalences were: silicosis 24.6%, past tuberculo...
Source: American Journal of Industrial Medicine - June 21, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Brendan V. Girdler-Brown, Neil W. White, Rodney I. Ehrlich, Gavin J. Churchyard Source Type: journals
The tree theme method as an intervention in psychosocial occupational therapy: client acceptability and outcomes
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This study, ... (Source: Australian Occupational Therapy Journal)
Source: Australian Occupational Therapy Journal - June 20, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Tags: article Source Type: journals
Use of the perceive, recall, plan and perform system of task analysis for persons with schizophrenia: a preliminary study
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Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page ???, September 2003.
Background/aim: Task analysis that targets information processing skills is an essential tool to understanding difficulties encountered by people with schizophrenia in their daily activities. The purpose of this preliminary study was to explore the use ... (Source: Australian Occupational Therapy Journal)
Source: Australian Occupational Therapy Journal - June 20, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Tags: article Source Type: journals
Clinical reasoning in neurology: use of the repertory grid technique to investigate the reasoning of an experienced occupational therapist
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Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page ???, September 2003.
Background/aim: The aim of this paper is to describe the use of a structured interview methodology, the repertory grid technique, for investigating the clinical reasoning of an experienced occupational therapist in the domain of upper limb hypertonia as ... (Source: Australian Occupational Therapy Journal)
Source: Australian Occupational Therapy Journal - June 20, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Tags: article Source Type: journals
Coaching parents to enable children's participation: an approach for working with parents and their children
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Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page ???, September 2003.
In this paper, Occupational Performance Coaching (OPC) is presented as a means whereby occupational therapists can support parents in achieving goals for themselves and their children. OPC is a coaching intervention that assists parents to recognise and ... (Source: Australian Occupational Therapy Journal)
Source: Australian Occupational Therapy Journal - June 20, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Tags: article Source Type: journals
Comparison of time use, role participation and life satisfaction of older people after stroke with a sample without stroke
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This study investigated the time use, role participation and life satisfaction of older Australians (aged 65 years and older) who were 1–3 years post-stroke and living in the community. The results of this study were compared with a ... (Source: Australian Occupational Therapy Journal)
Source: Australian Occupational Therapy Journal - June 20, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Tags: article Source Type: journals
Is there a need for special preventive medical check-ups in employees exposed to experimental animal dust?
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Conclusions In employees with occupational contact with laboratory animal dust, the frequency of complaints was high. The results confirm
the necessity of regular medical check-ups for employees with contact with laboratory animal dust. Nevertheless, the medical
check-ups must be part of a prevention strategy including education, engineering controls, administrative controls, use of
personal protective equipment and vocational integration.
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Original ArticleDOI 10.1007/s00420-008-0338-9Authors
Klaus Schmid, Social and Environmental Medicine of the University Erlange...
Source: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health - June 20, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Tags: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health Source Type: journals
Low back load reduction using mecanical lift during transfer of patients - a validation study designed to the acquired skill for caregivers -
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Low back load reduction using mecanical lift during transfer of patients - A validation study designed to the acquired skill for caregivers -
Sangyo Eiseigaku Zasshi. 2008 Jun 20;
Authors: Tomioka K, Sakae K, Yasuda J
In Japanese care-work sites, care-workers (CWs) have lacked basic health risk awareness for transferring patients. Knowledge of lifting equipment and skills for transfer of patients have not been disseminated and many CWs have suffered from work-related musculoskeletal disorders, especially low back pain (LBP). In order to find better ways of patient transfer which reduce and prevent LBP, we condu...
Source: Sangyo Eiseigaku Zasshi : Journal of Occupational Health - June 20, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Tomioka K, Sakae K, Yasuda J Tags: Sangyo Eiseigaku Zasshi Source Type: journals
Approach to easing occupational stress for high-stress workers: applying the brief job stress questionnaire to workplace mental health promotion.
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Approach to easing occupational stress for high-stress workers: applying the Brief Job Stress Questionnaire to workplace mental health promotion.
Sangyo Eiseigaku Zasshi. 2008 Jun 20;
Authors: Hase Y, Hori H, Nakayasu I, Matsushita Y, Inagaki M, Unno A, Nishigaya E, Nishijima C, Enta K, Sashihara S
We investigated job stress among 442 employees from 19 divisions in a Japanese company using the Brief Job Stress Questionnaire. Job stress of the employees was estimated by the score for total health risk. Among the 19 divisions, two divisions showed over 120 points of mean total health risk score. Intervention with...
Source: Sangyo Eiseigaku Zasshi : Journal of Occupational Health - June 20, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Hase Y, Hori H, Nakayasu I, Matsushita Y, Inagaki M, Unno A, Nishigaya E, Nishijima C, Enta K, Sashihara S Tags: Sangyo Eiseigaku Zasshi Source Type: journals
Asbestos causes demolition problems for building owner
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June 10, 2008 – The owner of a building in Waco, Texas has discovered that the presence of asbestos in buildings scheduled for demolition can cause a variety of different problems, not the least of which is increased demolition costs.
The presence of asbestos in the buildings drives the cost of demolition up considerably for several reasons.
First is the fact that the asbestos must be removed before the buildings can be demolished. Leaving the asbestos intact during demolition could spread clouds of asbestos dust into the air, creating an environmental and health hazard.
Second, the asbestos removal must be carried ou...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - June 19, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: asbestos-post Tags: Asbestos Exposure Source Type: news
Bellrive fire victims will be able to retrieve possessions
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Houston, Texas – Former tenants of the Bellrive apartment complex in Houston, Texas may finally be able to retrieve their belongings, without having to pay for expensive asbestos removal, says the Houston Housing Authority.
The dispute over who would pay for clean-up arose in March, when the HHA said tenants may have to pay up to $3,400 each to clean asbestos fibers from their personal possessions.
The fire was caused shortly after Thanksgiving 2007 by a candle which had been left burning in a fifth-floor apartment. No residents were seriously hurt in the blaze, but tenants were distraught over the news that many of t...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - June 18, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: asbestos-post Tags: Asbestos Exposure Asbestos Abatement Source Type: news
