background: hot lab is a specially designed room in a nuclear medicine hospital where the radiopharmaceuticals are delivered, stored and prepared for dispensing. 99mo/99mtc-generator is the major source in the hot lab used for various medical imaging. it is important to maintain a standard for hot lab procedures to optimize the patient care and minimize radiation exposure to all nuclear medicin...

After rising sharply in the 1980s, workers’ compensation costs and benefits declined during the 1990s. The recent decline may reflect, in part, a decline in the availability and adequacy of these benefits. Workers in the second half of their work lives are particularly likely to be affected by these changes. Although workers’ compensation continues to compensate workers for acute short-term inj...

background: cotton is the main agricultural export product in benin. cotton dust is thus present in the air during the handling and processing of cotton. this dust contains a mixture of substances including ground up plant matter, fibres, bacteria, fungi, soil, pesticides, noncotton matter, and other contaminants. while cotton processing is decreasing in industrialized countries, it is increasi...

background and objectives: today, 24-hours work is an unavoidable component in several industries. night-work is an imperative situation for an important part of workforces. shift-working is called to work at hours out of usual day-work time (7:00 am to 6:00 pm). the present study was a cross sectional descriptive-analytic research, and was carried out in order to investigate sleepiness and cha...

backgrounds: situation awareness is an important factor in industrial accidents. improving situation awareness may help to prevent occupational accidents. determination of factors influencing situation awareness will help to plan and take measures for betterment of working condition and development of a safer workplace. in this study, we examined the role of work overload and job stress in pred...

abstract pesticides, despite their known toxicity, are widely used in developing counties. evaluating the patterns of their use would be interesting to assess the appropriateness of adequate intervention. in this study, the attitudes associated with pesticides use and exposure were evaluated among greenhouse workers, in fars province. a standardized quastionnaire was completed by 91 greenhouse ...

important factor in the prevention of industrial accidents involve of the ability of employees to maintain awareness of the work situation, understand the information it holds, and predict how situations will develop. in this study, we examined the role of fatigue and work overload in predicting work situation awareness among workers. the current study was a cross-sectional study. the sample co...

background: human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) epidemics are largely linked to high-risk populations such as female commercial sex workers (fsws). this study assessed sexual behaviors, attitudes and knowledge of this marginalized group. methods: we conducted a cross- sectional study on 278 selfidentified fsws by using respondent driven sampling (rds) method in shiraz, south of iran, from june 2...

self-confidence is a glorious feature of an effective administrator. their main goal is the organizational success. therefore, we approached this idea by evaluating the self-confidence of nursing administration in tehran university of medical sciences (tums) teaching hospitals and its relation to vocational satisfaction of the staff.in a cross-sectional study, we interviewed 200 nursing adminis...