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Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Supplement 2022
Cardiovascular autonomic disorders and work ability: A focus on post-acute Covid19 syndrome
A relationship between the autonomic nervous system and work ability has been recently described in autonomic disorders, i.e., Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS). It is unknown whether COVID19 may induce a post-acute viral syndrome…
Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Supplement 2022
Changes to Silica Exposure Control Measures in the Artificial Stone Benchtop Industry in Victoria Australia
Introduction: We have previously shown that cumulative exposure and intensity of silica exposure, estimated from the proportion of time dry processing and proportion of time working on artificial stone predicted the risk of adverse respiratory…
Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Supplement 2022
Child Labor in Conflict Settings
A high child labor rate is one of the greatest misfortunes that can be imposed on a society, destroying the innocence of the young, harming their health, and making them economically weak. Child labor is defined by the International Labor…
Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Supplement 2022
Crisis preparedness of companies e examples especially in the light of chemical incident preparedness
Introduction: Doctors for Occupational health play a critical role in the disaster and crisis preparedness of companies e especially in the oil-and gas business. In the past the preparedness focus was on chemical emergencies and impact of natural…
Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Supplement 2022
Designing interventions to maintain work ability
Introduction: The working population is ageing and people are now
encouraged to work for longer. As a result many workers are extending their exposure to musculoskeletal risk factors when their work capacity is declining. This study aimed to examine…
encouraged to work for longer. As a result many workers are extending their exposure to musculoskeletal risk factors when their work capacity is declining. This study aimed to examine…
Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Supplement 2022
Disability and physical examination signs among workers with shoulder pain
Introduction: The study investigated shoulder pain, physical examination and disability among workers from different occupations.
Materials and Methods: The study group consisted of 3,480 office and production workers from meat and garment industry,…
Materials and Methods: The study group consisted of 3,480 office and production workers from meat and garment industry,…
Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Supplement 2022
Disability free life expectancy and working conditions
Introduction: Increasing life expectancy does not always go along with an increasing healthy life expectancy (HLE). The life expectancy without and with disability by occupational exposure during working life helps to gain insight into health…
Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Supplement 2022
Do microRNAs characterize exposure and asbestos-related diseases?
Introduction: Asbestos-related diseases can be latent for long time after exposure cessation. We analyzed the expression of a set of 179 microRNAs in the plasma these workers in search of relevant microRNAs as biomarkers, regulators of disease…
Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Supplement 2022
Effect of a workplace factors and intervention on retirement pathways
Introduction: The study examined the effect of workplace interventions on the different retirement types and which workrelated factors predicted disability pension.
Materials and Methods: A quasi-experimental study among Finnish food industry…
Materials and Methods: A quasi-experimental study among Finnish food industry…
Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Supplement 2022
Effectiveness of basic occupational health services in the informal sector
Effectiveness of basic occupational health services in the informal sector