OBJECTIVE To determine whether employees with disabilities were initially assigned to jobs with work demands that matched their work capacities. PARTICIPANTS Forty-six employees with various physical, mental, sensory and multiple disabilities working in a sheltered workshop. METHODS Physical and psychosocial work capacities were assessed post-offer and pre-placement using the Ergo-Kit and M...

This work describes the potential consequences associated with operating a centrifugal compressor in overload. Nomenclature is offered to explain what is meant by overload operation, and methods that are used by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and end users to define overload limits are presented. The paper also describes the conditions that can lead to overload operation. Computational...

Objective: To aims determine the level of compliance with workload, work-related strain and isolation measures as well effect work overload in physicians nurses working a state hospital throughout COVID-19 pandemic. Material Methods: The study was conducted descriptive design. data were obtained from 91 386 (n=477) public Istanbul between November 2020 February 2021 who volunteered to participa...

Pervasive information technologies, such as Blackberries, enable organizational users to interact with their working environments anytime and from anywhere. While such technologies can contribute to increased productivity, they can also drive addictive behaviors and negative consequences. An empirical study of 241 mobile email users revealed that their levels of addiction to mobile email increa...

The internationalization of labor is a prominent feature of the economy today, but is accompanied by adverse effects on operator health. In general, musculoskeletal diseases are the first to appear in this context. The open observations activity and interviews with operators and the hierarchy have been made to discover the organizational constraints. Other interviews were also conducted to acco...

While organizational pervasive technologies, such as mobile computing, can contribute to increased productivity, their nature can also result in technology addiction.We applied the behavior–environment interface of social cognitive theory to explain several negative familial and organizational consequences of addiction to work-related pervasive technologies. Our empirical study of 241 organizat...

background: stress is a nonspecific reaction to everything the body needs. although occupational stress exists in every occupation, it is seen with more frequency and intensity amongst those occupations related to human health. in this study, we aimed to investigate the level of occupational stress in operating room staffs working in the hospitals affiliated to isfahan university of medical sci...

We aimed to prospectively assess changes in chronic stress among young adults transitioning from high school to university or working life. A population-based cohort in Munich and Dresden (Germany) was followed from age 16-18 (2002-2003) to age 20-23 (2007-2009) (n = 1688). Using the Trier Inventory for the Assessment of Chronic Stress, two dimensions of stress at university or work were assess...