INTRODUCTION Occupational injuries as a workforce's health problem are very important in large-scale workplaces. Analysis and modeling the health-threatening factors are good ways to promote the workforce's health and a fundamental step in developing health programs. The purpose of this study was ANN modeling of the severity of occupational injuries to determine the health-threatening factors a...

AIMS The aim of the present study was to investigate absence from work in Denmark due to occupational and non-occupational accidents. BACKGROUND Since the beginning of the last decade, political focus has been placed on the population's working capacity and the scope of absence due to illness. Absence from work is estimated at between 3% and 6% of working hours in the EU and costs are estimat...

The usage and types of chemicals become developed, specialized, diversified, and newly exposed workers are concerning to occupational disease. In Korea, with the industrialization, the uses of many chemicals have increased since the 1970s. As a consequence, there have been increasing the occupational diseases caused by poisonous chemicals, such as heavy metal poisoning, solvent poisoning and oc...

One requirement for successful occupational health care is reliable information on occupational hazards. The aim of this study was to develop a simple, standardised method for workplace investigations for use in occupational health care. The theoretical framework of the method comprises the stress-strain model, the hazard-danger model, and risk behaviour theory. The new method, termed job load ...

BACKGROUND Falls are frequent occupational accidents, and are responsible for a significant amount of lost working time and, more importantly, for a high mortality. The factors involved in falling mechanisms can be of external or individual origin, the latter being less well identified. AIMS To assess the relations between certain individual characteristics and occupational accidents due to i...

Given the burden of occupational illnesses and injuries in the United States, family physicians should understand the role workplace exposures may play in patients' chief concerns. Incorporating employment screening questions into patients' intake questionnaires is an efficient means of identifying potential occupational causes of symptoms. Recommended questions include what kind of job patient...

OBJECTIVE We utilized job safety analysis (JSA) and hazard identification for work accident prevention in Para rubber wood sawmills, which aimed to investigate occupational health risk exposures and assess the health hazards at sawmills in the Trang Province, located in southern Thailand. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional study which included a walk-through survey, JSA, occupational risk...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether observed higher risks of occupational injury among temporary workers are due to exposure to hazardous working conditions and/or to lack of job experience level. METHODS Data systematically recorded for 2000 and 2001 by the Spanish Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs on fatal and non-fatal traumatic occupational injuries were examined by type of employment and ...