This paper demonstrates how the resilience concept (Hollnagel et al., 2006) can be used as a perspective for reducing occupational injuries. The empirical background for the paper is a case study on an oil and gas installation in the North Sea that had a negative trend in LTI (Lost Time Injury) rates. The HSE (Health, Safety, Environment) administration initiated a broad process that included t...

Phase contrast microscopy (PCM) is an internationally accepted method for the evaluation of occupational exposure to asbestos fi bres present in breathed air. Despite the widespread use of this method, which is based on counting fi bres under a microscope, it has some inherent limitations which may impact on counting results and consequently affect exposure evaluations. An asbestos guide (Healt...

Background & Aims of the Study: A most part of children time is spent in a school environment. Important part of the basic mission of schools is promoting the health and safety. So assessing the existing conditions is an important factor in promotion and this study conducted to investigate the environmental health and safety status of Paveh city schools in Kermanshah province. M...

Moderate environmental and physiological stressors are known to initiate protective heat shock response (HSR) leading to cell survival. HSR is largely mediated by the activation of heat shock factor (HSF), resulting in increased heat shock protein expression. Dysregulation of the HSR signaling has been associated with various diseases including cancer, inflammation and neurodegenerative disorde...

All organisms have evolved mechanisms that protect them against environmental stress. The major fungal pathogen of humans, Candida albicans, has evolved robust stress responses that protect it against human immune defences and promote its pathogenicity. However, C. albicans is unlikely to be exposed to heat shock as it is obligatorily associated with warm-blooded animals. Therefore, we examined...

OBJECTIVES Holistic sexuality education (HSE) is a new concept in sexuality education (SE). Since it differs from other types of SE in a number of important respects, strategies developed for the evaluation of the latter are not necessarily applicable to HSE. In this paper the authors provide a basis for discussion on how to evaluate HSE. METHODS First, the international literature on evaluat...

During locomotion animals rely heavily on visual cues gained from the environment to guide their behavior. Examples are basic behaviors like collision avoidance or the approach to a goal. The saccadic gaze strategy of flying flies, which separates translational from rotational phases of locomotion, has been suggested to facilitate the extraction of environmental information, because only image ...