studies have determined that the application of technical safety measures is not adequate to protect human, economic and environmental assets in industries. therefore, promoting health, safety and environment (hse culture), as an alternative approach, is of great importance. the aim of this study was to evaluate and manage hse culture among employees of an industrial sector in iran. this descri...

Lawrence T. Dauer, PhD, CHP, Raymond H. Thornton, MD, Donald L. Miller, MD, John Damilakis, PhD, Robert G. Dixon, MD, M. Victoria Marx, MD, Beth A. Schueler, PhD, Eliseo Vañó, PhD, Aradhana Venkatesan, MD, Gabriel Bartal, MD, Dimitrios Tsetis, MD, PhD, and John F. Cardella, MD, for the Society of Interventional Radiology Safety and Health Committee and the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radi...

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The National Association of Physicians for the Environment (NAPE) has assumed a leadership role in protecting environmental health in recent years. The Committee of Biomedical Research Leaders was convened at the recent NAPE Leadership Conference: Biomedical Research and the Environment held on 1--2 November 1999, at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. This report summarizes ...

In countries having traditional medicine (TM), one of the main challenges for any researcher is research methodology. Current methodologies are different with what was in past. The main purpose of this article is to present the steps (herbs, claims and methodology) of research in TM fields. 1. Assessment of herbs History, method of study, quality assessment, efficacy, safety, toxicity and the...

abstract project management in construction industry, in many cases, is imperfect with respect to the integration of occupational health and safety (ohs) risks. this imperfection exhibits itself as complications affecting the riskiness of industrial procedures and is illustrated usually by poor awareness of ohs within project teams. difficulties on ohs regularly came about in the construction i...

Nanosilver: Safety, health and environmental effects and role in antimicrobial resistance Philippe Hartemann, Peter Hoet, Ana Proykova, Teresa Fernandes, Anders Baun, Wim De Jong, Juliane Filser, Arne Hensten, Carsten Kneuer, Jean-Yves Maillard, Hannu Norppa, Martin Scheringer, Susan Wijnhoven European Commission, Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR) Corr...

conclusions all healthcare personnel, particularly nurses working in chcs and fhcs found occupational safety to be insufficient as related to protective and supportive activities. results according to the evaluations of all the medical personnel, the mean ± sd of total score of the oss was 3.57 ± 0.98; of the oss’s subscales, the mean ± sd of the health screening and registry systems was 2.76 ±...

The Committee on Man and Radiation (COMAR) is a technical committee of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Its primary area of interest is biological effects of non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation, including radiofrequency (RF) energy. The public interest in possible health effects attributed to RF energy, su...