Associations between work-related factors and sickness presenteeism: a prospective study using the national French working conditions survey ...

Objectives This study investigated the ergonomic and safety hazards of small-scale miners in one of the largest small-scale mining area in the Philippines which is the area of Itogon, Benguet. Methods ...

Aims: To assess mortality and cancer morbidity in Canadian petroleum workers and explore exposure-response relations for specific petroleum agents. Methods: A total of 25 292 employees hired between ...

Objective To explore the level and influencing factors of frontline nurses’ post-traumatic growth (PTG) during COVID-19 epidemic. Methods A cross-sectional survey was conducted in February 2020 in ...

Correspondence to Dr Tyler D. Quinn, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; yhh7{at}cdc.gov Background ...

During the past decades conclusive evidence has accumulated that alkylating antineoplastic drugs (ADs) can cause cancer, most notably acute non-lymphocytic leukaemia, and that most ADs are reprotoxic.

Correspondence to Dr Jennifer Moriatis Wolf, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund 221 00, Sweden; jennifer.wolf{at}med.lu.se Objective It is postulated that increased load from pinch ...

Forty commercial saturation divers, mean age 34.9 (range 24-49) years, were examined one to seven years after their last deep dive (190-500 metres of seawater). Four had by then lost their divers' ...

Objectives Exposure to bioaerosols in salmon processing workers is associated with occupational asthma. IgE-mediated allergy and other disease mechanisms may be involved in airway inflammation and ...

Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, The University of Texas School of Public Health, Health Science Center at Houston, Texas, USA Correspondence to: Dr S A Felknor Southwest ...

Aims: Most industrialised countries have public income maintenance programmes to protect workers in case of disability but studies addressing disability risk of specific professional groups are rare.

OBJECTIVES To estimate the prevalence of sensitisation to natural rubber latex in latex tappers and latex glove factory workers, and to relate this to airborne exposure to latex. METHODS Five hundred ...