Improving work place assessments in anaesthesia

Improving fit to work assessments for rail safety workers by exploring work limitations

PURPOSE We aim to provide evidence for improving fit to work assessments for rail safety workers and raised the question whether adding an assessment of work limitations is useful. Therefore, we assessed differences in the proportions of perceived work limitations and reported health complaints and whether older age or having health complaints are risk factors for having work limitations. MET...

Authenticity in Work Place Settings

Functions of psychological healthy work place' components in preventing of work-family conflict perception

Background: In today’s work settings, work-family conflict as a main stressor has become an important and influential factor as well as a strong predictor of various personal and work-related outcomes. Consequently, the main purpose of this research was to predict perceived work-family conflict through components of psychological healthy work place.   Methods: The study population included a...

Work Site Assessments: A Tool for Reducing Risk Exposure for Work Related Injury and for Improving Productivity

Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMSD) are one of the most prevalent and costly safety concerns in the workplace today. In sonography, work-related injury poses a serious threat to the health and safety of the worker. WRMSDs can decrease productivity and affect the quality of patient care when workers are performing their jobs in chronic pain. Furthermore, patient safety can be directly...

Mental Health at Work Place

Mental health denotes a symptom free mind and fair level of emotional well being. Be it home or workplace; mental health of an individual is subjected to environmental stressors that may reduce one’s state of well being. The workplace in particular can be a very tiring environment for anyone. The stress of long working hours, ever increasing targets, managing coworkers and subordinates can take...