Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Supplement 2022
How to find reliable online information, a bottleneck for Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) professionals?
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Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Supplement 2022
How to find reliable online information, a bottleneck for Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) professionals?
How to find reliable online information, a bottleneck for Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) professionals?
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reliable online information, a bottleneck for Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) professionals
Description
Introduction: Printed books & scientific journals have been steadily replaced by online information in a large variety of sources. Nevertheless, OSH practice is only slowly discovering the amazing opportunities of online conveniences. One bottleneck is that finding
reliable information online is not easy without a roadmap and training to complete an accurate and fast search. Most OSH professionals are not well-trained in finding and using online sources.
Materials and Methods: The lecture is based on the book “Occupational Safety and Health online, how to find reliable information” (third edition, 2016), free at www.ldoh.net, and an Open Access article on “where to find evidence-based information” (2021) published in the Annals of Global Health: https://annalsofglobalhealth.org/articles/10.5334/aogh.3131/.
Results: Commonly used strategies, search engines and online
sources are briefly introduced including PubMed/MEDLINE, Virtual
Health Library, LILACS and SciELO (Latin America), Cochrane reviews, evidence-based guidelines, synopses such as Up-to-date, Google (Scholar), YouTube, Wikipedia, and authoritative sources for chemical or biological exposure and effects. The relevance of the information and the need for quality appraisal are addressed and diverse options for training are shown.
Conclusions: Adequate information and education access can improve
the professional performance and the quality of practice in favor of workers and companies, saving time, money, case management errors
and delays. Surprisingly, there is almost no coordination and evaluation
related to online information in the OSH field, with a few exceptions.
reliable information online is not easy without a roadmap and training to complete an accurate and fast search. Most OSH professionals are not well-trained in finding and using online sources.
Materials and Methods: The lecture is based on the book “Occupational Safety and Health online, how to find reliable information” (third edition, 2016), free at www.ldoh.net, and an Open Access article on “where to find evidence-based information” (2021) published in the Annals of Global Health: https://annalsofglobalhealth.org/articles/10.5334/aogh.3131/.
Results: Commonly used strategies, search engines and online
sources are briefly introduced including PubMed/MEDLINE, Virtual
Health Library, LILACS and SciELO (Latin America), Cochrane reviews, evidence-based guidelines, synopses such as Up-to-date, Google (Scholar), YouTube, Wikipedia, and authoritative sources for chemical or biological exposure and effects. The relevance of the information and the need for quality appraisal are addressed and diverse options for training are shown.
Conclusions: Adequate information and education access can improve
the professional performance and the quality of practice in favor of workers and companies, saving time, money, case management errors
and delays. Surprisingly, there is almost no coordination and evaluation
related to online information in the OSH field, with a few exceptions.
Creator
Yohama Caraballo-Arias and Frank Van Dijk
Publisher
Elsevier Korea LLC
Date
January 2022
Contributor
Sri Wahyuni
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Language
English
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Text
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Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Supplement 2022
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Yohama Caraballo-Arias and Frank Van Dijk, “Safety and Health at Work Vol. 13 Supplement 2022
How to find reliable online information, a bottleneck for Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) professionals?,” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed April 28, 2025, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/2478.
How to find reliable online information, a bottleneck for Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) professionals?,” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed April 28, 2025, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/2478.