Limited information is available on occupational exposures during routine, nonoutage work activities in coal-fueled power plants. This study evaluated occupational exposures to the principal contaminants in the facilities, including respirable dust (coal dust), arsenic, noise, asbestos, and heat stress. The data were collected over a 3-month period, during the summer of 2001, in 5 facilities th...

In 1970, the OSH Act was promulgated with the intent focus “to assure so far as possible every working man and woman in the Nation safe and healthful working conditions” (29 U.S. Code 671). The question of how to accomplish that goal has been the subject of discussions throughout the SH&E community long before the act was passed. Over the years, practitioners and researchers have suggested that...

In many regions, larger employers oversee a wide array of programs and activities to help manage the health, safety and well-being of workers. Examples of these functions include occupational safety and health programs, disability and return-to-work programs, disease management programs, worker compensation programs, employee assistance and health promotion or wellness programs, and various hum...

One of the best ways to prevent and control occupational injuries, illnesses, and fatalities is to qdesign outq or minimize hazards and risks early in the design process. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is leading a national initiative called Prevention through Design (PtD) to promote this concept and highlight its importance in all business decisions. PtD addr...

In Canada, many datasets are initially collected for purposes other than occupational health and safety (OHS) research. These include administrative health care billing records, pharmaceutical records, vital statistics, provincial cancer registries and workers' compensation claims data. In addition, many national and provincial health surveys, while not focused specifically on occupational heal...

Slovenia is a small, fast developing country in the EU with approximately 2,000,000 inhabitants and 700,000 employed. Occupational medicine has been present in Slovenia for as long as 500 yr. Today, 130 specialists of occupational medicine are in charge of health protection of the employed (including transport workers and athletes). There are also 1,100 safety engineers, who take care of the te...

BACKGROUND Healthcare professionals encounter many medical risks while providing healthcare services to individuals and the community. Thus, occupational safety studies are very important in health care organizations. They involve studies performed to establish legal, technical, and medical measures that must be taken to prevent employees from sustaining physical or mental damage because of wor...

In this paper carcinogenicity classification and evaluations case of formaldehyde made by national and international agencies and organizations (such as European Union, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization) both in occupational (such as American Conference of Government Industrial Hygienists, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and Occupational...

background: one of the necessities of industrial societies is the application of developed measures/strategies for the prevention of occupational incidents in industrial companies. the present study was conducted with the aim of determining the role of the safety management system on safety culture of an oil and gas exploration and production company. materials and methods: this study was condu...