background: severe upper extremity injuries can affect the quality of life in patients and cause multi-factorial and long-term costs of disease. the aim of this study was to assess quality of life in patients with upper extremity injuries caused by work-related accidents. methods: in this study cross-sectional method was used in patients referred to the occupational medicine clinic of rasoul ak...

background : hepatitis b and c and human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection are a serious health issue in iran. knowledge of the designed standard precautions can reduce occupational injuries which result in the transmission of these viruses. this study was conducted to determine the rate of occupational injuries and awareness of the standard precautions among laboratory staff and nurses of...

BACKGROUND Empirical evidence describing the psychosocial consequences of occupational injury is still limited. The effect of occupational injury on depression might pose unique challenges in workers compared with other kinds of injury. This study aimed to assess the differential impact of workplace injury compared with non-workplace injury on depression over time, and to identify the potential...

Data collected by the Italian Funds for Occupational Injuries and Diseases (INAIL) on incidence and mortality for occupational injuries in Italy during 1951-2001 are described with respect to the two main occupational sectors, Industry and Services, and Agriculture. Comparisons with other EU countries are included to place the current severe phenomenon in context. An ad hoc analysis aimed at ve...

The aim of this review is to look at the future of occupational accidents by analysing a Finnish Delphi and a British scenario study on the future of occupational safety and health. We then present occupational injury trends from all around the world: Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Africa, and North America. The connection between economic booms and occupational injury rates was analy...

We investigate the impact of cognitive load on occupational injuries using survey data. Cognitive is defined in literature as a tax bandwidth which reduces amount resources available for engaging logical reasoning. proxy with number nonprofessional tasks that individuals perform every day, conditional time they spend them. The underlying assumption when large those tasks, this requires mental o...