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Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, Miyazaki Medical College, 5200 Kihara, Kiyotake, Miyazaki Prefecture 889-1692, Japan Correspondence to: Dr H Imai Department of Public Health, School ...
Objectives In 2014, US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) updated a rule requiring employers to directly report all hospitalisations, amputations and eye enucleations to OSHA within ...
Objectives This study assessed finger blood flow (FBF) among groundskeepers using laser Doppler flowmetry (LDF) and evaluated the association of the FBF with hand-arm vibration (HAV) exposure dose.
OBJECTIVES To evaluate the validity of the checklist individual strength questionnaire (CIS) in the working population. This 20 item self reported questionnaire has often been used in patients with ...
Objectives A 25% reduction of weekly work hours for full-time employees has been shown to improve sleep and alertness and reduce stress during both workdays and days off. The aim of the present study ...
1 Coronel Institute for Occupational and Environmental Health, Academic Medical Center, AmCOGG, Amsterdam Center for Research in Health and Health Care, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands ...
Correspondence to Dr Jaana I Halonen, Health Security, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki 00271, Finland; Jaana.Halonen{at}thl.fi Objectives Long commuting times are linked to poor ...
3 Center for Ergonomics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA 4 Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (RMCOEH), University of Utah, Salt Lake City, ...
Correspondence to Dr Johnni Hansen, Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Strandboulevarden 49, Copenhagen DK2100, Denmark; johnni{at}cancer.dk Objectives Growing but limited ...
2 Department of Occupational Medicine, Copenhagen County Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark 3 National Institute of Occupational Health, Copenhagen, Denmark 4 Department of Occupational Medicine, Aarhus ...
OBJECTIVES Consolidation of epidemiological data on pancreatic cancer and worksite exposures. METHODS Publications during 1969–98 were surveyed. Studies without verified exposures were excluded.