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An Assessment of the Effects of Increased Regulatory Enforcement on Occupational Hearing Loss Workers' Compensation gon 1984-1998 [PDF]

Hearing loss from occupational exposures has been found to be a common and serious problem affecting workers. This paper examines the effect that increasing legislative enforcement of existing regulations has on improving worker safety.
Brian McCall, Irwin B. Horwitz
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Writing Against the Machine: Computational Authorship and Historical Writing

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Historians generate knowledge through the labour of composition – through the friction between interpretation and evidence that makes claims open to scrutiny and challenge. This essay argues that when composition is bypassed, that structure disappears. Generative AI raises this issue in urgent fashion.
CHRISTOPHER GERTEIS
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating the Noise Exposure Rate and the Relationship between Job Stress and Sleep Disturbance in Workers of one of the Iranian Construction Industry

بهداشت کار و ارتقای سلامت, 2019
Introduction: Noise is considered as a risk factor for a wide range of industrial environments, including construction industry. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between job stress due to noise exposure with sleep disturbance ...
Ehsan Asivandzadeh, Zeynab Jamalizadeh, Afshin MOHEBI, Peyman YARI, Seyyed Poorya FAZELI   +4 more
doaj  

Gendered Attitudes or Structural Barriers? Men Front Line Workers' Perspectives on What Keeps Men out of Paid Care Work in Australia

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gender segregation in paid care work offers a critical lens for understanding how gender inequality is reproduced in contemporary societies. While much research has explained men's absence from paid care through cultural and identity‐based accounts, less has been done to examine the structural mechanisms that sustain the feminisation of care ...
Steven Roberts, Elsie Foeken, Karla Elliott, Riikka Prattes   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bayesian State Space Modeling of Physical Processes in Industrial Hygiene

, 2018
Exposure assessment models are deterministic models derived from physical-chemical laws. In real workplace settings, chemical concentration measurements can be noisy and indirectly measured.
Abdalla, Nada, Arnold, Susan, Banerjee, Sudipto, Ramachandran, Gurumurthy   +3 more
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Does Inequality Blur Class Lines? Meritocratic Attitudes in Comparative Perspective

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars of inequality generally find that lower‐class individuals are more skeptical of meritocratic narratives that link economic success to individual work effort. However, past research has yielded inconclusive findings about how economic inequality affects meritocratic attitudes across different class groups.
Roshan K. Pandian, Ronald Kwon
wiley   +1 more source

Towards the Development of a Conceptual Framework of the Determinants of Pre‐Eclampsia: A Hierarchical Systematic Review of Social Determinants

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Existing reviews of pre‐eclampsia determinants have focused on clinical and genetic risk factors. Objective To evaluate social determinants for pre‐eclampsia prevention. Search Strategy Systematic searches were conducted from relevant electronic databases from inception of each database to 30th December 2024.
Mai‐Lei Woo Kinshella, Kelly Pickerill, Sarina Prasad, Olivia Campbell, Jalila Devji, Lívia Vieira Lopes, Rosa Balleny, Terteel Elawad, Rachel Craik, Marie‐Laure Volvert, Hiten D. Mistry, Hannah Blencowe, Véronique Filippi, Peter von Dadelszen, Laura A. Magee, Marianne Vidler, the PRECISE Network   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Study on noise- induced hearing loss in Agriculture and industry factory - Iran

مجله اپیدمیولوژی ایران, 2005
Background and Objectives: Noise-induced hearing loss is a prevalent work-related morbidity in the country. We determined the strength of association between hearing loss and occupational noise exposure as the first step in prevention programs.Material ...
A.A Keshtkar, MJ Kabir, S Asghari, S Nedjat, A Etemadi, R Heshmat, Y Kanani, K Holakouie Naeini   +7 more
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Human Capital Disclosure and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Regulation S‐K

Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the labor market consequences of the 2020 Regulation S‐K requiring human capital disclosure in 10K filings. Using large‐sample job‐level data and a Generative Large Language Model (GLLM), we observe that public firms subject to the regulation increase their disclosure of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) information in job ...
Jung Ho Choi, Dan Li, Daniele Macciocchi
wiley   +1 more source

Hearing impairment caused by occupational noise.

South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde, 1972
Occupational noise-induced hearing impairment is an insidiously developing injury which only becomes apparent when it affects the hearing of conversational speech. As no remedy is possible, prevention is the only answer. In view of the impending legislation in South Africa a review of the literature is presented.
openaire   +2 more sources