Health and safety: Danger zone

Danger zone: Men, masculinity and occupational health and safety in high risk occupations.

The workplace is a key setting where gender issues and organizational structures may influence occupational health and safety practices. The enactment of dominant norms of masculinity in high risk occupations can be particularly problematic, as it exposes men to significant risks for injuries and fatalities. To encourage multi-disciplinary collaborations and advance knowledge in the intersectin...

Highway to the Danger Zone

Examining Personal Air Pollution Exposure, Intake, and Health Danger Zone Using Time Geography and 3D Geovisualization

Expanding traditional time geography, this study examines personal exposure to air pollution and personal pollutant intake, and defines personal health danger zones by accounting for individual level space-time behavior. A 3D personal air pollution and health risk map is constructed to visualize individual space-time path, personal Air Quality Indexes (AQIs), and personal health danger zones. P...

Danger zone: battered mothers and their families in supervised visitation.

Supervised visitation centers (SVCs) have developed rapidly across the United States. Increasingly, courts are restricting contact between abusive intimate partners and their children by ordering visitation or exchanges to occur at SVCs. This article describes some of the key lessons the authors learned over 18 months of planning and then another 18 months of implementation at a SVC developed s...

The zone of danger, physical impact, and PTSD.

The Federal Employer's Liability Act (FELA) exempts employers from providing mental health coverage to railway drivers who suffer work-related psychological trauma as the result of an incident that does include a threat of imminent direct physical impact. Tension exists between this legislation and the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) literature. Neurobiological research demonstrates that P...