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Analysis of Falls from Height Variables in Occupational Accidents
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021 Fall-from-height accidents are linked to severe and fatal consequences for impacted workers. A better understanding of the related variables is necessary to improve worker safety.
M. Rey-Merchán +3 more
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Frontiers in Toxicology, 2023 Introduction: In the shipbuilding industry, workers are exposed to a variety of dangerous chemicals, styrene being one of them. The International Agency for Research on Cancer classified styrene as a chemical belonging to group 2A, which means it is ...
Daniela Pigini +8 more
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Trends in Workplace Wearable Technologies and Connected-Worker Solutions for Next-Generation Occupational Safety, Health, and Productivity [PDF]
Advanced Intelligent Systems 2021, 2022 The workplace influences the safety, health, and productivity of workers at multiple levels. To protect and promote total worker health, smart hardware, and software tools have emerged for the identification, elimination, substitution, and control of occupational hazards.
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Non-fatal occupational accidents in Brunei Darussalam
Industrial Health, 2021 Globally, ILO estimates 374 million non-fatal and 380,500 fatal occupational accidents annually. Slips, trips, falls and contact with objects are the leading modes of injury, with extremities being the most common body part involved.
K. N. Win +4 more
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Safety, 2023 Near-miss events are usually identified as adverse events that could have turned into incidents/injuries but, due to an intervention of a safety system or by chance, developed into harmless situations instead.
Giulio Paolo Agnusdei +5 more
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Utilizing Import Vector Machines to Identify Dangerous Pro-active Traffic Conditions [PDF]
In 2020 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent
Transportation Systems (ITSC) (pp. 1-6). IEEE, 2021 Traffic accidents have been a severe issue in metropolises with the development of traffic flow. This paper explores the theory and application of a recently developed machine learning technique, namely Import Vector Machines (IVMs), in real-time crash risk analysis, which is a hot topic to reduce traffic accidents.
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International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, 2020 Childcare providers are overwhelmingly women of childbearing age. Occupational risks in this sector include exposure to biological (infectious) or physical (standing, carrying loads) hazards, many of which are associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes ...
Anca Radauceanu, Myriam Bouslama
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BioMed Research International, 2020 Background. The study examines the mediation effect of safety knowledge in causal the relationship between Occupational Health and Safety Management Frameworks (OHSMF) and occupational injuries and workplace accidents in the Ghanaian Oil and Gas Industry.
Suxia Liu +4 more
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Biosolubility of high temperature insulation wools in simulated lung fluids
Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology, 2019 Objective Biosolubility is an important parameter in the understanding of mechanisms involved in pulmonary toxicity of fibrous materials. It can be studied in vitro using models of simulated lung fluids and observing the loss of structural molecules ...
Annapaola Cannizzaro +3 more
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Journal of Xenobiotics, 2015 Bisphenol A (BPA) interacts with the endocrine system and seems to produce different effects in relation to gender. The objective of the study was to clarify the possible health effects of exposure to BPA in relation to gender.
Lidia Caporossi, Bruno Papaleo
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