Ambient Assisted Working (AAW) is a discipline aiming to provide comfort and safety in the workplace through customization and technology. Workers' comfort may be compromised in many labor situations, including those depending on environmental conditions, like extremely hot weather conduces to heat stress. Occupational heat stress (OHS) happens when a worker is in an uninterrupted physical acti...

Since 1994, each Dutch enterprise has to be affiliated to an independent occupational health service (OHS), recognized by the government. In addition, each enterprise has to be supported by this occupational health service in its activities for the improvement of working conditions, and in the guidance of employees absent from work. From 1994 to 1998, the government was carrying out the certifi...

Background: Compared to manufacturing industry, construction has a unique characteristic. These characteristics cause projects have dangerous conditions and make them vulnerable an occupational accident. Purpose: To analyze the influence of Occupational Health Safety (OHS) management on building workers’ safety behavior at service company Surabaya. Method: This research classification is observ...

This study aimed to determine the simultaneous and partial effect of training variables, work environment, occupational safety health (OHS) application on productivity laboratory technicians at University Mataram, Indonesia. The type research is explanatory using a quantitative approach. Respondents in are 39 people. data used this taken questionnaire. Data were analyzed multiple linear regress...

Occupational health care has a long tradition in Poland. It has evolved from the industrial health care system established in the post-war period to a modern system defined in the Occupational Health Services Act of 1997. When the process of political and economic transformation began in Poland in 1989, the reforms of the workers' health care became inevitable. The process of introducing and im...

BACKGROUND Occupational asthma is the most common work-related respiratory disease in the UK. Individuals whose work potentially puts them at risk include those exposed to laboratory animals. Workplace health surveillance programmes aim to minimize these health risks but are recognized to be challenging to implement effectively. AIMS To evaluate the efficacy of the respiratory health surveill...

In examining the research literature on occupational health and safety (OHS), this paper argues that the growth in the number of specialists in OHS has resulted in an emphasis on policy and practice away from more scholastic concerns previously addressed by academics in the disciplines of psychology and sociology. A hiatus has occurred, and this is evidenced by the general absence of studies in...