food safety issues are not a new issue in science, but due to the dynamic changes in the modern world it is as equally important as decades ago. the aim of the study was to address the efforts in the development of a comprehensive food safety system in serbia, and make specific recommendations regarding the improvement of epidemiological investigation capacity as a useful tool which contributes...

Fitness for work assessment is inherent to occupational medicine practice, whether at the pre-employment stage, or when a person is an established employee. Many occupational health practitioners are involved in the assessment of fitness of workers to undertake safety critical work, for example, driving a heavy goods vehicle or a train or working in health care. But, how do we define safety cri...

Starter activities • Ask the students what is meant by ‘health and safety in the workplace’. Ask them to give you some examples • Using the factsheet, describe to the students what a work environment used to be like. Ask for their ideas on how they would expect a workplace to differ today • Ask the students why health and safety in the workplace is important. Read out the case study to emphasis...

Two studies were conducted investigating the relationship between high-performance work systems (HPWS) and occupational safety. In Study 1, data were obtained from company human resource and safety directors across 138 organizations. LISREL VIII results showed that an HPWS was positively related to occupational safety at the organizational level. Study 2 used data from 189 front-line employees ...

The study examined the relationships between work experience and (a) safety perceptions, (b) job satisfaction, (c) compliance with safety management policies and (d) accident frequency. Participants were Ghanaian industrial workers (N = 320). They were divided into 2 cohorts: experienced and inexperienced workers. Workplace safety perceptions were assessed with Hayes et al.'s 50-item work safet...

respecto a la prescripción de diálisis, reacciones alérgicas, a seguridad en la atención sanitaria es la ausencia o educción a un mínimo aceptable del riesgo de sufrir daño nnecesario en el curso de la atención sanitaria (fuente: MSP/OMS: Clasificación Internacional para la Seguridad de os pacientes). La actividad de hemodiálisis (HD) comprende una serie de rocedimientos y técnicas, algunas de ...

precise identification of the risks of power plants as a part of a comprehensive safety analysis is recommended by monitoring organizations. assessment and risk management techniques in industrial activities through the use of preventive approach to identify hazards , assess and control safety - health risks unit is studied. in this study, risks and effects of abadan gas power plant were studie...

Nurses are critical to the physical management and psychological support of patients undergoing chemotherapy, which is a vulnerable time for many. This article presents the results of a qualitative study intended to explore the experience of Japanese patients with breast cancer during chemotherapy, including the finding that participants created personal safety nets in physical, emotional, and ...

Since its beginning in the mid 1940s, human factors has tried to keep up with the ever increasing demands from technological and societal developments. Looking back, the development of human factors can be described as corresponding to three ages. In the first age, humans were seen as too too imprecise, variable, and slow to allow the full use of the technological potential. In the second age, ...