The development and testing of a tool to assess joint health and safety committee functioning and effectiveness.

abstract：:Health care workers may be occupationally exposed to known and suspected teratogens including viruses, anesthetic gases, sterilants, mercury, and x-radiation. To assess the risk of congenital defects among offspring of health care workers, we analyzed parental occupational histories for 4,915 case babies with congenit...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Matte TD,Mulinare J,Erickson JD

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Existing research suggests that workplace injuries can have significant economic and social consequences for workers; but there are no quantitative studies on complete populations. METHODS:The British Columbia Linked Health Database (BCLHD) was used to examine 1994 injured workers who lost work time due to ...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Brown JA,Shannon HS,Mustard CA,McDonough P

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A study of occupational asthma among workers exposed to 4,4'-Diphenylmethane Diisocyanate (MDI). OBJECTIVE:To demonstrate if serum concentrations of MDI-specific IgG or IgE are sensitive biological markers of disease or of MDI exposure. METHODS:The study group consisted of nine MDI-exposed workers and nine...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Lushniak BD,Reh CM,Bernstein DI,Gallagher JS

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The UAB-ITREOH program has initiated a skill-based MPH program at Manipal University (MU), India, in 2009, to address the critical need for trained public health professionals and build institutional public health training capacity in the country. METHODS:Funds from Fogarty have supported the curriculum dev...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Bhat HV,Kamath R,Arunkumar G,Delzell E,Tipre M,Upadhyay DK,Sathiakumar N

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present case-control study was conducted in an effort to determine if work in the chemical industry is related to excesses of certain hematopoietic and lymphoid neoplasms. Cases who died from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and leukemia were matched by race, gender, age, year of death, and county of resi...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Massoudi BL,Talbott EO,Day RD,Swerdlow SH,Marsh GM,Kuller LH

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated an outbreak of irritative and neurotoxic symptoms associated with exposure to asphalt fumes in a commercial lighting factory; 27 symptomatic female workers were clinically assessed including hematologic testing. When compared with a laboratory reference group (n = 107), the workers' mean platelet volum...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Chase RM,Liss GM,Cole DC,Heath B

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The rate of lost-time sprains and strains in private nursing homes is over three times the national average, and for back injuries, almost four times the national average. The Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation (BWC) has sponsored interventions that were preferentially promoted to nursing homes in 2000-200...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Park RM,Bushnell PT,Bailer AJ,Collins JW,Stayner LT

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:No information exists on the differences between teenagers with work permits and teenagers without work permits in regards to workplace injury, near-miss incidents, and safety training. METHODS:In May 2003, an anonymous questionnaire was administered to 7,506 teens attending high school throughout the five ...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Zierold KM,Anderson H

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sensitivity to beryllium was investigated among workers at an aluminum smelter in Norway as a consequence of the findings in an occupational exposure survey. METHODS:Three hundred and sixty-two employees and 31 reference persons were tested for sensitization to beryllium with the beryllium lymphocyte prolif...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Nilsen AM,Vik R,Behrens C,Drabløs PA,Espevik T

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An epidemiological investigation was undertaken to determine the relationship between silicosis in hardrock miners in Ontario and cumulative exposure to silica (crystalline silica--alpha quartz) dust. This first report describes the cohort, the method of classifying the radiographs, and the identification of a case of...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Muir DC,Shannon HS,Julian JA,Verma DK,Sebestyen A,Bernholz CD

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:No previous studies investigated the interaction of effort-reward imbalance (ERI) and overcommitment on blood pressure. Our aim was to investigate associations of ERI and overcommitment (and their interaction) with blood pressure and hypertension within a Chinese population. METHODS:Seven hundred thirty-fou...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Xu W,Yu H,Hang J,Gao W,Zhao Y,Guo L

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using injury information from the 1986 Mine Safety and Health Administration database, and demographic information from a 1986 sample survey of the miner population, acute traumatic injury rates for male workers in underground bituminous coal mines were computed by age, current job experience, and total mine work expe...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Lee T,Anderson C,Kraus JF

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exposure to microbial agents in the composting industry may cause work related airway inflammation. Nasal lavage (NAL) has been proposed as a noninvasive method to assess such effects in population studies. METHODS:Pre- and post-shift NAL were performed in the workers of a compost plant visited in 1995 (n =...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Douwes J,Wouters I,Dubbeld H,van Zwieten L,Steerenberg P,Doekes G,Heederik D

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The SARS outbreak in 2003 has spawned a major controversy concerning protective performance facemasks for healthcare workers. This study reports a study on in-vivo protective performance of surgical masks and N95 respirators. METHODS:Typical surgical masks and N95 respirators used in Hong Kong hospitals wer...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Li Y,Wong T,Chung J,Guo YP,Hu JY,Guan YT,Yao L,Song QW,Newton E

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cross-sectional prevalence study of 120 public school custodians was carried out. The purposes were 1) to investigate the prevalence of asbestos-related disease in a group of custodians at risk for asbestos exposure in public schools and 2) to determine the proportion with disease attributable to exposures in school...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Oliver LC,Sprince NL,Greene R

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The objectives of this study were to determine whether cross-shift changes in peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) were related to respirable dust exposure in South African coalminers. METHODS:Fifty workers were randomly selected from a cohort of 684 miners from 3 bituminous coalmines in Mpumalanga, South Afric...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Naidoo RN,Robins TG,Becklake M,Seixas N,Thompson ML

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Workers in a potato processing plant were exposed at the particular workplace to large concentrations of airborne microorganisms and endotoxin. The presence of precipitins to microbial antigens was significantly correlated with the occurrence of the work-related respiratory and general symptoms that were found in 45.9...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Dutkiewicz J

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analysis of reported birth record variables by parental occupation suggests that certain birth outcomes may identify toxic or carcinogenic occupational exposures of the parents. Fathers coded to an asbestos and insulation worker rubric sired fewer plural births, and more stillbirths than expected. A number of other...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Milham S Jr

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of 206 necropsies in Western Australia (WA) have had routine counts made of asbestos bodies in samples of lung tissue using conventional light microscopy. Thirty-two cases had worked in the asbestos industry at Wittenoom, WA and (log) counts of asbestos bodies in their lung tissue correlated well with estimat...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Williams V,de Klerk NH,Whitaker D,Musk AW,Shilkin KB

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an epidemiologic study of 6,359 oil shale workers, 1,664 (46.7%) of 3,566 survivors were investigated. No excess of skin disease (as reported in response to a questionnaire) was found in men exposed to oil or dust, whether compared to men who were not exposed to oil or dust or to coalminers. A low prevalence of sim...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Seaton A,Louw SJ,Cowie HA

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Work-related mortality is a relatively new concept which aims to widen occupational health and safety; to take into account not only recognized fatal occupational accidents and diseases but also other work-related deaths. Few countries in the world have a register for work-related diseases. METHODS:Estimate...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Hämäläinen P,Takala J,Saarela KL

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pesticides may be transformed by chemical and biological processes or transported from the site of application by several processes including runoff, movement through the soil to ground water, volatilization, transport on soil particles, and wind erosion. Contamination of water by pesticide residues is a matter of con...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Plimmer JR

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Investigations of breast cancer among men may provide clues for environmental and occupational risk factors that may be difficult to study in women, because of confounding or effect modification from reproductive female characteristics. The objective was to estimate occupation-specific risks of male breast c...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Pollán M,Gustavsson P,Floderus B

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to evaluate the genotoxic risk to medical personnel concurrently exposed to ionizing radiation and antineoplastics, using changes in their lymphocyte cell genome as a bioindicator. The study comprised 12 female nurses employed in the nuclear medicine hospital department and an equal number of ...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Brumen V,Horvat D,Trosić I

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We developed a systematic, data-driven approach to estimate metrics of occupational exposure to lead to aid in epidemiologic analyses in a case-control study of kidney cancer. METHODS:Probability of exposure to ten lead sources was assigned using decision rules developed from an extensive literature review ...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Callahan CL,Locke SJ,Dopart PJ,Stewart PA,Schwartz K,Ruterbusch JJ,Graubard BI,Rothman N,Hofmann JN,Purdue MP,Friesen MC

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective measures of exposure furnished by dust monitoring are both costly and time consuming and require a sufficient level of technology. However, they are important in demonstrating exposure-response relationships, in furnishing information necessary to establish environmental control levels, and to assess if inte...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Fonn S,Groeneveld HT,deBeer M,Becklake MR

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Following the 1990-1991 Gulf War, Gulf War veterans (veterans) reported health symptoms more commonly than non-deployed groups. This article examines symptom persistence, incidence and prevalence 20 years on. METHODS:In 2000-2003 and 2011-2012, a 63-item symptom checklist was administered to 697 veterans an...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Gwini SM,Forbes AB,Kelsall HL,Ikin JF,Sim MR

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Job-exposure matrices (JEM) are used for exposure assessment in occupational studies, but they can involve errors. We assessed agreement between the Nordic Occupational Cancer Studies JEM (NOCCA-JEM) and aggregate and individual dose estimates for cosmic radiation exposure among Finnish airline personnel. M...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Talibov M,Salmelin R,Lehtinen-Jacks S,Auvinen A

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In view of the increasing incidence of diseases such as gastritis and ulcers in workers exposed to noise, we assessed whether noise does in fact affect gastric secretion. Then, considering the conflicting findings published on the effects of noise on gastric secretion, we also investigated whether the response was rel...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Tomei F,Papaleo B,Baccolo TP,Persechino B,Spanò G,Rosati MV

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nearly one of every three workers in the United States is low-income. Low-income populations have a lower life expectancy and greater rates of chronic diseases compared to those with higher incomes. Low- income workers face hazards in their workplaces as well as in their communities. Developing integrated pu...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Baron SL,Beard S,Davis LK,Delp L,Forst L,Kidd-Taylor A,Liebman AK,Linnan L,Punnett L,Welch LS

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00