themselves and with industry is worthy of consideration. Compulsion by meticulous enforcement of legislation may lead to reticence on the part of certain managements to provide welfare measures. This may also lead in certain instances to failure to cooperate with official agencies. An important approach is to stimulate the concept of promotion of industrial welfare and health, irrespective of l...

AIM This study examined the career anchor characteristics that are possessed by Japanese occupational health nurses. METHOD Sixteen occupational health nurses participated in the semistructured interview. Data analyses were conducted using descriptive qualitative methods. RESULTS The data showed the following five categories: practices concerning relationships and positions; development of ...

Occupational health nurses should evaluate employee satisfaction with and expectations of occupational health services offered. Reliable and valid measurement tools should be used to determine what employees think of offered services. Occupational health nurses should reconstruct services in accordance with the results of evaluations.

BACKGROUND Occupational health services (OHS) are often described as an important resource to reduce work-related diseases and improve the workplace. OBJECTIVE This paper identifies key factors for successful collaboration between Swedish OHS providers and their client companies. METHODS Interviews were carried out with representatives of 15 companies and their OHS providers. The interviews...

AIM To determine whether enterprises belonging to the Bank of Models of Good Practice were more successful than average Norwegian enterprises in the reduction of sickness absence, promotion of early return to work, and prevention of early retirement. METHODS In 2004 we selected 86 enterprises with a total of approximately 90000 employees from the Inclusive Working Life (IWL) Bank of Models of...

An exploratory qualitative case study investigated how different sectors of a highly industrialized community mobilized in the 1990s to help workers exposed to asbestos. For this study, thirty key informants including representatives from industry, workers, the community, and local politicians participated in semi-structured interviews and focus groups. The analysis was framed by a "Dimensions ...

The aim of this work was to study psychosocial working environment factors among farmers and other people living in rural areas. The study was carried out as a cross-section investigation. All persons visiting local occupational health service centres for a health check up have been asked to answer an inquiry which was based on the Karasek-Theorell questionnaire on job strain. Five extra items ...

Korea needs national strategies to handle problems of Small Scale Enterprises (SSEs) systematically. Since 1993, the Korean government has begun to provide financial subsidy programs for Occupational Health Services (OHSs) in SSEs from Occupational Injury Prevention Fund. To identify the health care status in SSEs in Korea, 5,080 factories, which had participated in the Government-funded Subsid...

BACKGROUND Employees are major contributors to economic development, and occupational health services (OHS) can have an important role in supporting their health. Key to this is collaboration between employers and OHS. We reviewed the evidence regarding the characteristics of good collaboration between employers and OHS providers that is essential to construct more effective collaboration and s...

Work-related stress has become one of the major problems in working societies and it increases employees' risk of disease. Its importance has been emphasized also due to its' great socio-economic consequences. Different stress management and worksite interventions have been implemented, however, the actual practices in companies have been assessed little. The purpose of this study was to examin...