A large-scale workplace-based suicide prevention and early intervention program was delivered to over 9,000 construction workers on building sites across Queensland. Intervention components included universal General Awareness Training (GAT; general mental health with a focus on suicide prevention); gatekeeper training provided to construction worker volunteer 'Connectors'; Suicide First Aid (A...

arches and vaults are of the most important parts of traditional buildings of iranian architecture. in the traditional architecture of iran, before oil was discovered, fuel (such as wood) was one of the high-ranking issues. therefore, iranian traditional architects did their best to reduce the use of wood. there was however, a revival of the use of brick in construction. qomi-poosh technology i...

T his paper analyses the relation between GNP sectors of Iran’s economy. The different sectors of the economy directly or indirectly affect each other and can complement or follow each other. Using a number of empirical tests, the paper finds evidence of seasonal or periodic integration in the underlying data. This means that the conventional cointegration tests may not be robust and in re...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to estimate the incidence and prevalence of hearing loss for noise-exposed U.S. workers by industry sector and 5-year time period, covering 30 years. METHODS Audiograms for 1.8 million workers from 1981-2010 were examined. Incidence and prevalence were estimated by industry sector and time period. The adjusted risk of incident hearing loss within each ...

BACKGROUND Wood dust has been classified as carcinogenic to humans and the association with nasal cancer risk has been observed in a large number of epidemiological studies. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study is to summarise data about occupational exposure levels to wood dust in Italy and to examine some exposure determinants. METHODS Exposure measurements on wood dust were extracted from th...

abstract project management in construction industry, in many cases, is imperfect with respect to the integration of occupational health and safety (ohs) risks. this imperfection exhibits itself as complications affecting the riskiness of industrial procedures and is illustrated usually by poor awareness of ohs within project teams. difficulties on ohs regularly came about in the construction i...

This paper provides an extended input–output (IO) model of sectoral water consumption for Bali, a province located in Indonesia that is well-known global tourist destination. Currently, the experiencing shortages, which leads to burden and heavy competition usage among various economic sectors. We developed method determining industrial/economic sectors directly indirectly consume most substant...

one of the measures taken by the 1979 revolutionary government of iran was to denounce the mixed public-private ownership of the banking system of the pre-revolutionary era and implement a full scale banking nationalization and merging scheme. since then the banking system has been operating under close supervision and scrutiny of the government - exercising its power to impose a variety of res...