This study examined 3218 advertisements from the two parenting magazines with highest circulation in the United States. The authors compared each advertisement for a product for use by children, against all the published recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) on topics such as toy safety, helmet use, age-defined choking hazards, infant sleep safety, and others. Any advertis...

BACKGROUND Unsafe working practices, working environments, disposable waste products, and chemicals in clinical laboratories contribute to infectious and non-infectious hazards. Staffs, the community, and patients are less safe. Furthermore, such practices compromise the quality of laboratory services. We conducted a study to describe safety practices in public hospital laboratories of Oromia R...

one of the ways to ensure food safety is to educate the public. of the organizations providing food safety education in the united states (u.s.), the cooperative extension system (ces) is one of the most reliable. the effectiveness ces programs depends not only on what is being taught but also on how it is taught. both a needs-based curriculum and how that curriculum is delivered are equally im...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effects of parent viewing of their child's actual risk behavior on home safety practices. METHODS Sixty-one 4-to 7-year-old children and their caregivers participated in a three session project. Parents were exposed to one of three videos: (a) their own child with simulated home hazards, (b) a pilot child with hazards, or (c) a control child development video. Observa...

Research utilizing both survey and observational techniques has found that consumers do not accurately report their own food handling behaviors. The goal of this study was to objectively observe conditions related to food safety risks and sanitation in domestic kitchens in an urban environment. Subjects (n = 100) were recruited from Philadelphia, PA. Homes were visited over a oneyear period by ...

background. There are a variety of potential hazards with laser technology. methods. A review of the literature. objective. To summarize the potential hazards of CO 2 and erbium laser technologies and the safety guidelines and equipment developed to minimize them. results. Laser hazards can be divided into the following categories: mechanical, environmental, macrobiologic, microbiologic, and ia...

INTRODUCTION Business and governments have used both formal and informal processes to make food safety decisions. In the past, scientific data, as well as other technical, economic, and consumer research have served as the basis for much of the decision-making process, including the determination of whether the benefit of an action outweighed its costs. Data gaps always exist, however, and when...

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As wind energy is one of the most important renewable energy sources over the globe, need for increasing safety for this type of energy is gaining importance. Although this sector is not suffering an excessive amount of fatal injury accidents, there are many aspects open for improvements in occupational health and safety management. The construction and operation processes of wind turbines incl...