Falling asleep while driving accounts for a considerable proportion of vehicle accidents under monotonous driving conditions. Many of these accidents are related to work--for example, drivers of ...

Association between biosecurity and zoonotic transmission of LA-MRSA CC398 from industrial pig farms to farm workers and their household members ...

Objectives Police work is an occupation replete with stress. The present study examined associations between specific police stressors (overall, administrative pressure, physical threat, and lack of ...

1 Health, Safety and Environment Unit, University of Wales College of Medicine, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4XN, UK 2 Department of Epidemiology, Statistics and Public Health, University of Wales College ...

Correspondence to Dr Ryan F Hoy, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia; ...

Objectives: Our main purpose was to investigate any relationship between noise exposure levels in the workplace, degree of hearing loss (HL), and the relative risk of accident (OR of single or ...

The development of methods for the assessment of the thermal environment is traced, and the reasons for the devising of special indices of thermal stress are discussed. The more important of the ...

1 INSERM-IRSET no. 1085, Epidemiological Research on Environment, Reproduction and Development, University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France Objective The potential impact of environmental exposure to ...

Objectives Three hundred and thirty thousand Italians arrived in Australia between 1945 and 1966, many on assisted passage schemes where the worker agreed to a 2-year unskilled employment contract.

Objectives Despite mounting evidence on epidemiological risk factors, Parkinson’s disease (PD) incidence remains largely unexplained. The purpose of this study was to test associations between ...

The concept of causality is reviewed with special emphasis on occupational diseases. Separate approaches from the philosophical, scientific, and legal points of view are identified. There is ...

Objectives This study investigated the ergonomic and safety hazards of small-scale miners in one of the largest small-scale mining area in the Philippines which is the area of Itogon, Benguet. Methods ...