Is there a nurse alive whose attention would not be grabbed by a report on team working and the stress it can cause? Probably not. Well, take a look at the Health and Safety Executive website at http://www.hse.gov.uk and there it is in a list of new publications, sandwiched between a statistical report on offshore injuries and one on reducing at-work road traffic accidents. The HSE has produced...

Pneumoconiosis is a notifiable industrial disease where a patient develops the disease, their doctor must notify their employer in writing with the patient's consent. The employer then is duty-bound to inform the local Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Pneumoconiosis is also a prescribed industrial disease. Financial compensation may be available where an individual is able to show they worked...

in vehicular ad hoc networks there is the ability to communicate between vehicles. this communication which is wireless should be rapid and reliable. these networks have unique characteristic. this communication among vehicles has many advantages in safety and comfort applications. since, the roads are always encountered to accidents and risks, using optimized tools could be useful in these sit...

background: multidrug resistant enterobacteriaceae which was confined to the hospital environments is now emerging in the domestic food related environments as well. the main objective of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of antibiotic resistant enterobacteriaceae in the domestic food related environments.  methods: resistance to ampicillin, chloramphenicol, ciprofloxacin, gen...

OBJECTIVES To reduce fires and fire related injuries by increasing the prevalence of functioning smoke alarms in high risk households. SETTING The programme was delivered in an inner London area with above average material deprivation and below average smoke alarm ownership. The target population included low income and rental households and households with elderly persons or young children. ...

The HSE originally introduced the concept of a “level of safety integrity” in its programmable electronic systems (PES) guidelines to deal with the fact that programmable systems are likely to contain systematic design faults (primarily software defects). It was thought that systematic failures (especially those in software) could not be treated probabilistically, and safety integrity level was...

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BACKGROUND Obesity is a chronic metabolic disorder associated with an increase in adipogenesis and often accompanied with fatty liver disease. OBJECTIVE In this study, we investigated the anti-obesity effects of Hibiscus sabdariffa water extract (HSE) in vivo. METHOD Eight-weeks-old male mice were divided into six groups (n=8 per group) and were fed either normal feed, a high fat diet (HFD)...