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Reduction of Workforce due to Impact of Covid-19 and Occupational Health and Safety Management at Workplace

International Journal of Occupational Safety and Health, 2020
COVID-19 pandemic has led to health crisis as well as slowdown of industrial activities throughout the world resulted in global economic loss. Safety measure of social distancing by workers at workplaces to prevent spread of corona virus leads to huge ...
Praveen Dubey, Garima Singh, G. Nagaraju, Kailash Gharat, S. D. Bharambe, Anant Vajarekar   +5 more
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Airborne concentrations of benzene for dock workers at the ExxonMobil refinery and chemical plant, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA (1977–2005)

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2011
OBJECTIVES: Benzene is a natural constituent of crude oil and natural gas (0.1–3.0% by volume). Materials that are refined from crude oil and natural gas contain some residual benzene.
Thomas E Widner, Shannon H Gaffney, Julie M Panko, Kenneth M Unice, Amanda M Burns, Marisa Kreider, J Ralph Marshall, Lindsay E Booher, Richard H Gelat, Dennis J Paustenbach   +9 more
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Chemical Risk Assessment Screening Tool of a Global Chemical Company

Safety and Health at Work, 2018
Background: This paper describes a simple-to-use and reliable screening tool called Critical Task Exposure Screening (CTES), developed by a chemical company.
Evelyn Tjoe-Nij, Christophe Rochin, Nathalie Berne, Alessandro Sassi, Antoine Leplay   +4 more
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Nanoparticle‐Based Tolerogenic Vaccines: Next‐Generation Strategies for Autoimmune and Allergic Disease Therapies

Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
Nanoparticle‐based tolerogenic vaccines harness controlled antigen delivery and immunomodulation to establish tolerance in autoimmunity and allergy. This review outlines how nanoparticle design (size, shape, composition, administration route) influences biodistribution and immune‐cell targeting.
Benjamin E. Nachod, Ajay S. Thatte, Rohan Palanki, Michael J. Mitchell   +3 more
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Negotiating Risk: Social and Organizational Factors Shaping Industrial Hygiene Practices

Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Science
This paper discusses the ways in which societal and organizational forces have influenced the practice of industrial hygiene in the modern working contexts.
Kimberly Long Holt
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Introducing Greek Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Adverse Health Effects of Occupational Exposure to Metals

Annals of Global Health, 2018
Background Aim: Implementing guidelines in the practice of occupational health is a high-priority need, since their use can reduce the variability in practice and increase professional efficiency, resulting in higher quality of health care services.
Evangelia Nena, Sotirios Koupidis, Eleni Douna, Anastasia Kikemenis, Georgios Dounias   +4 more
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Associations of Sleep and Shift Work with Osteoarthritis Risk

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objective Daily rhythms may be critical for maintaining homeostasis of joint tissues. We aimed to investigate the relationships between circadian clock disruption, sleep, and osteoarthritis (OA) risk in humans. Methods In the UK Biobank, a prospective 500,000‐person cohort, we evaluated associations between sleep duration, sleeplessness/insomnia, and ...
Elizabeth L. Yanik, Abigail Bridgeman, Erik D. Herzog, Vy Pham, Bradley A. Evanoff, Farshid Guilak   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Cross-sectional Study of Musculoskeletal Symptoms and Risk Factors in Cambodian Fruit Farm Workers in Eastern Region, Thailand

Safety and Health at Work, 2018
Background: Work-related musculoskeletal disorders are accumulative disorders that are most frequently found in agricultural farmers. The purpose of this study was to investigate factors that affect symptoms resulting from work-related musculoskeletal ...
Anamai Thetkathuek, Parvena Meepradit, Teerayut Sa-ngiamsak   +2 more
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Spectrally Tunable 2D Material‐Based Infrared Photodetectors for Intelligent Optoelectronics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Intelligent optoelectronics through spectral engineering of 2D material‐based infrared photodetectors. Abstract The evolution of intelligent optoelectronic systems is driven by artificial intelligence (AI). However, their practical realization hinges on the ability to dynamically capture and process optical signals across a broad infrared (IR) spectrum.
Junheon Ha, Yingshan Ma, Yong Nam An, Sung‐Un An, Hyeon Hak Jung, Suvi‐Tuuli Varjamo, Jiwon Yoo, Junho Min, Hanvit Kim, Faisal Ahmed, Sang Hoon Chae, Young Min Song, Weiwei Cai, Tawfique Hasan, Zhipei Sun, Dong‐Ho Kang, Hyeon‐Jin Shin, Yunyun Dai, Hoon Hahn Yoon   +18 more
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Phycotoxins in Marine Shellfish: Origin, Occurrence and Effects on Humans

Marine Drugs, 2018
Massive phytoplankton proliferation, and the consequent release of toxic metabolites, can be responsible for seafood poisoning outbreaks: filter-feeding mollusks, such as shellfish, mussels, oysters or clams, can accumulate these toxins throughout the ...
Federica Farabegoli, Lucía Blanco, Laura P. Rodríguez, Juan Manuel Vieites, Ana García Cabado   +4 more
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