Several new developments at the Annals of Occupa tional Hygiene (AOH) over the past year may be of interest to the readership. First, welcome to Ms Sarah Pyle as our new Editorial Manager. Sarah comes to the British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS) and AOH with experience working with an academic publisher in the past, and more recently with training in the law. Sarah takes over from Ms Roz ...

Occupational risk assessment in school food services (SFS) should include factors related to occupational hygiene, physical–functional planning, worker health, and good meal production practices. This study aimed develop an instrument assess perform content validation semantic evaluation. The research included three steps: (i) instrument’s development; (ii) (Delphi); (iii) evaluation (focus gro...

Research focused on occupational exposure has been one of the cornerstones of epidemiological research into the etiology of cancer. It is appropriate to critically assess the contribution of this research effort and to assess the potential for making significant progress in the future in unraveling the etiology of cancer by studying the occupational environment. The study of the occupational en...

This review opens with the most important examples from the history of medicine until the end of the 17th century, which anticipated the affirmation of occupational medicine as separate medical discipline. The article remembers the famous Italian physician Bernardino Ramazzini (1633-1714) and his book De morbis artificum diatriba (Diseases of Workers) published in Modena in 1700 in which he des...

Sport is one of the essential elements of life today. Ifs value in the prevention of illness should not be under estimated. Sports medicine also has an important part to play in the selection, guidance and supervision of competitive athletes, but it is concerned, above all, with public hygiene and the prevention of ill-health. Sports medicine, like occupational medicine, has an increasing role ...

BACKGROUND This study aims to promote occupational health in the informal sector in Thailand by using a participatory approach. The success of the intervention is based on an evaluation of the informal sector workers, a) knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors in occupational health and safety, b) work practice improvement, and c) working condition improvement. METHODS This study applies the Part...