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The disease burden attributable to 18 occupational risks in China: an analysis for the global burden of disease study 2017

open access: yesEnvironmental Health, 2020
Background China has more than 18% of the global population and over 770 million workers. However, the burden of disease attributable to occupational risks is unavailable in China.
Jie Li   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Oneiric stress and safety and security at work: the discovery of a new universal symbol [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Cox and Griffiths define as psychosocial risks at work “those aspects of the planning, organization and management of work, which, along with their environmental and social contexts, may affect mental and physical health of the employees, directly or ...
Accettura, Antonella   +14 more
core   +1 more source

Biological Risk and Occupational Health

open access: yesIndustrial Health, 2012
Many work activities include hazards to workers, and among these biological risk is particularly important, mostly because of different types of exposure, contact with highly dangerous agents, lack of limit values able to compare all exposures, presence of workers with defective immune systems and therefore more susceptible to the risk. Bioaerosols and
CORRAO, Carmela Romana Natalina   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Analysis of mortality in a pooled cohort of Canadian and German uranium processing workers with no mining experience. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
PurposeLong-term health risks of occupational exposures to uranium processing were examined to better understand potential differences with uranium underground miners and nuclear reactor workers.MethodsA cohort study of mortality of workers from Port ...
Fenske, Nora   +5 more
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Training modules in the formation of risk-based thinking of employees in oil industry

open access: yesБезопасность техногенных и природных систем, 2021
Introduction. The relevance of the presented work is, first of all, due to the significant number of employees of oil companies. There are more than a million of such specialists working in Russia.
R. O. Shadrin, B. V. Sevastyanov
doaj   +1 more source

The use of surface electromyography in assessing the effectiveness of manual therapy: a systematic review

open access: yesInternational Journal of Occupational and Environment Safety, 2020
Research on the use of surface electromyography (sEMG) for analyzing the effects of Manual Therapy (MT) seems to have very dispersed intentions. The development of data collection protocols using sEMG might not be stable for conducting clinical studies ...
Rui Santiago   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of existing approaches to the assessment of hazards and occupational risks of workers of industrial enterprises of the Republic of Kazakhstan

open access: yesБезопасность техногенных и природных систем, 2022
Introduction. Timely and effective identification and assessment of all hazards and occupational risks is one of the urgent problems in the prevention of occupational injuries of industrial workers.
R. B. Shirvanov
doaj   +1 more source

Liquidity, Risk, and Occupational Choices [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
We explore which financial constraints matter the most in the choice of becoming an entrepreneur. We consider a randomly assigned welfare program in rural Mexico and show that cash transfers signi cantly increase entry into entrepreneurship. We then exploit the cross-household variation in the timing of these transfers and find that current ...
Bianchi, Milo, Bobba, Matteo
openaire   +7 more sources

For richer, for poorer: marriage and casualized sex in East African artisanal mining settlements [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Migrants to Tanzania's artisanal gold mining sites seek mineral wealth, which is accompanied by high risks of occupational hazards, economic failure, AIDS and social censure from their home communities. Male miners in these settlements compete to attract
Bryceson D.F   +17 more
core   +1 more source

Hazard identification, risk assessment and risk control: a study at construction site [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) is an Act to make further provisions for securing the safety, health and welfare of persons at work, for protecting others against risks to safety or health in connection with the activities of persons at work ...
Abd Latip, Muhammad Faris   +5 more
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