Biological Risk and Occupational Health

Biological risk and occupational health.

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 dust are considered important vehicles of ...

Assessing methodological quality and biological plausibility in occupational health psychology.

Occupational medicine, toxicology, biological monitoring, safety and environmental health, occupational hygiene

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Occupational accidents involving biological material among public health workers.

This descriptive research aimed to recognize the occurrence of work accidents (WA) involving exposure to biological material among health workers at Public Health Units in Ribeirão Preto-SP, Brazil. A quantitative approach was adopted. In 2004, 155 accidents were notified by means of the Work Accident Communication (WAC). Sixty-two accidents (40%) involved exposure to biological material that c...

Health risk appraisals in Swedish occupational health services

BACKGROUND Health risk appraisals (HRAs) in occupational health services (OHS) in Sweden are very commonly used for health promotion issues, but not much research has explored the extent and nature of individual feedback that is provided. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to describe and explore HRAs in OHS regarding the content of the feedback in relation to the individual status and overall emplo...