background: psychologically traumatic workplace events (known as critical incidents) occur within various work environments, with workgroups in certain industries vulnerable to multiple incidents. with the increasing prevalence of incidents in the usa, incident response is a growing practice area within occupational medicine, industrial psychology, occupational social work and other occupationa...

The MAK value (“maximale Arbeitsplatz-Konzentration”: maximum workplace concentration) is defined as the maximum concentration of a chemical substance (as gas, vapour or particulate matter) in the workplace air which generally does not have known adverse effects on the health of the employee nor cause unreasonable annoyance (e. g. by a nauseous odour) even when the person is repeatedly exposed ...

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OBJECTIVE To understand the prevalence of healthcare students' witnessing or participating in something that they think unethical (professionalism dilemmas) during workplace learning and examine whether differences exist in moral distress intensity resulting from these experiences according to gender and the frequency of occurrence. DESIGN Two cross-sectional online questionnaires of UK medic...

this study is an attempt to adapt a post-structural approach for the analysis of ‘trans-relational’ episodes prevalent in the study of workplace discourse analysis. to do this, the talk between three employees working at the same office was recorded and analyzed based on a discourse analytic framework. the results of data analysis revealed that five type of relational episodes are frequent in t...

Virtual organising is a term which commonly describes an approach to managing and configuring organisational resources beyond the spatial and legal boundaries of the firm. To better manage the process of virtualisation, three things need to be understood: how virtual the organisation wants to be, how virtual the organisation is, and how capable the organisation currently is of operating virtual...

Workplace ostracism was originally defined that individuals were excluded or ignored or disregard by other employees. Workplace ostracism is a kind of “cold violence”, which has been paid attention widespread. The study reported here mainly summarized workplace ostracism and its effects from lots of domestic and foreign literatures. Firstly, we comb the conceptions and nature of workplace ostra...

Workplace design and upkeep, or human factors, are frequently advanced for explaining so-called Occupational Slip, Trip and Fall Accidents (OSTFAs). Despite scientific progress, these accidents, and more broadly Occupational Accidents with Movement Disturbance (OAMDs), are also commonly considered to be "simple". This paper aims to stimulate changes in such perceptions by focusing on organisati...

background: workplace violence has become an issue of increasing concern. residents are often the first physician that patients will meet them. objectives: we conducted this study to evaluate workplace violence against medical residents in iran. materials and methods: in a cross sectional questionnaire based study we asked 1107 medical residents about violence exposure during past 12 months. re...