BACKGROUND Since 1996, the tobacco industry has used the 16 Cities Study conclusions that workplace secondhand tobacco smoke (SHS) exposures are lower than home exposures to argue that workplace and other smoking restrictions are unnecessary. OBJECTIVES Our goal was to determine the origins and objectives of the 16 Cities Study through analysis of internal tobacco industry documents and regul...

American families and workplaces have both changed dramatically over the past half-century. Paid work by women has increased sharply, as has family instability. Education-related inequality in work hours and income has grown. These changes, says Suzanne Bianchi, pose differing work-life issues for parents at different points along the income distribution. Between 1975 and 2009, the labor force ...

b m a 2 s w c r f c i h s c w c o b aroshi, or death by overwork, is commonly known and feared among Japanese workers. When the Japanese government started eleasing data in the 1980s about these udden deaths by heart attack and stroke, hey found that they were caused by reorted occupational stress, long working ours, shift work, irregular work, lack of ontrol, and unpaid overtime, mostly as a e...

Representations of the workplace are an important aspect of popular culture. Genres from the thriller to the situation comedy are played out against a backdrop of offices, schools, hospitals, factories, police stations and other workplaces. Attention to the representation of the workplace is of central importance in the visual media, especially film and television, as they require either the co...

BACKGROUND Noise pollution is one of the important issues of pollutant in workplaces and is almost one of the harmful agents for workers. At present, instrumental based inspections for determining the index levels of noise in workshops is performed. This method is requiring a time consuming and ex-pensive in large scale inspection for workplaces. Classification of workplaces based on noise poll...

Abstract Leadership represents an emerging theme in the field of digitised workplaces, yet understanding leadership dynamics and effectiveness this context remains limited. The aim chapter is to (1) provide overview existing academic literature at intersection future work (2) propose integrative framework established current research trends. We apply a holistic, systematic comprehensive review ...

INTRODUCTION Little research exists on the prevalence of evidence-based tobacco cessation practices in workplaces, employer promotion of state-sponsored quitlines and predictors of these practices. METHODS Cross-sectional analysis of the 2008 Healthy Worksite Survey, a telephone survey administered to Washington employers with 50 or more employees (n=693). The objectives were to describe work...