background the main purpose of this study was to explore the status of occupational stress among hospital nurses in isfahan, iran. it also aimed to examine the relationship between nurses’ occupational stress and their intention to leave the hospital.   methods the study employed a cross-sectional research design. a validated questionnaire was used to collect data from 296 nurses. respondents w...

Hearing loss is a significant and unfortunately common occupational malady. Over the past several decades both the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) have initiated efforts to better understand and to limit the occurrence of occupational hearing loss, particularly as it relates to excessive noise exposure. T...

Lack of knowledge of the exact contents of the materials and improper handling of the toxic chemicals lead to the occurrence of occupational illnesses in the developing countries. However, the incidence of occupational diseases was usually underestimated. This article presents the profile of occupational diseases in Taiwan from two sources, i.e. occupational disease benefit payments of labor in...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to summarize the major health problems among Chinese workers, the strategies and measures for occupational hazards control, the network and organizations of occupational health administration, and the achievements and current challenges of occupational health in China. RESULTS The situation of occupational health was found to be still serious in China. Enterprises w...

The catering industry is developing rapidly in China. Statistics in 2002 indicated that there were over 3.5 million dining places in China, hiring over 18 million people. However, the accident rate was high. Occupational health and safety (OHS) has to be watched more carefully. It is proposed to develop an OHS management system for the catering industry and to integrate it with an ongoing manag...

Work-related cancers have been subject to extensive study in the occupational health literature. However, the majority of workers in the UK who develop a cancer and are seen by an occupational physician (OP) in clinical practice are likely to have non-work-related disease, which have been subject to significantly less scrutiny in relation to the impact of the diagnosis on work. This paper seeks...

conclusions path analysis of occupational injuries based on the sem reveals that individual and organizational factors and their indicator variables are very influential on the severity of traumatic occupational injuries. so, these should be considered to reduce occupational accidents’ severity in large construction industries. materials and methods the present cross-sectional analytical study ...

OBJECTIVES This study compared patterns of occupational injuries in two different areas, coastal (industrial) and mountain (agricultural), in Southern China to provide information for development of occupational injury prevention measures in China. DESIGN Descriptive epidemiological study. SETTING Data were obtained from the Hospital Injury Surveillance System based on hospital data collect...