The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between environmental vapor concentrations in organic solvent workplaces and size of enterprises, and to examine if occupational hygiene conditions were better in larger-scale enterprises. For this purpose, a total of 3,567 solvent workplaces were surveyed for environmental solvent vapor concentrations in 1999 to 2002. The results...

INTRODUCTION Modifiable health risk behaviors such as physical inactivity, unhealthy eating, and tobacco use are linked to the most common chronic diseases, and chronic diseases contribute to 70% of deaths in the United States. Health risk behaviors can be reduced by helping small workplaces implement evidence-based workplace health promotion programs. The American Cancer Society's HealthLinks ...

Many workers worldwide experience fatality and disability caused by occupational injuries. This study examined the relationship between noise exposure and occupational injuries at factories in Korea. A total of 1790 factories located in northern Gyeonggi Province, Korea was evaluated. The time-weighted average levels of dust and noise exposure were taken from Workplace Exposure Assessment data....

A national survey on workplace environment nanomaterial handling and manufacturing was conducted in 2014. Workplaces relevant to nanomaterials were in the order of TiO2 (91), SiO2 (88), carbon black (84), Ag (35), Al2O3 (35), ZnO (34), Pb (33), and CeO2 (31). The survey results indicated that the number of workplaces handling or manufacturing nanomaterials was 340 (0.27% of total 126,846) workp...

background : noise pollution is one of the important issues of pollutant in workplaces and is almost one of the harmful agents for workers. at present, instrumental based inspections for determining the index levels of noise in workshops is performed. this method is requiring a time consuming and ex-pensive in large scale inspection for workplaces. classification of workplaces based on noise po...

OBJECTIVE To quantify the effects of smoke-free workplaces on smoking in employees and compare these effects to those achieved through tax increases. DESIGN Systematic review with a random effects meta-analysis. STUDY SELECTION 26 studies on the effects of smoke-free workplaces. SETTING Workplaces in the United States, Australia, Canada, and Germany. PARTICIPANTS Employees in unrestrict...

The concept of knowledge worker has been around for fifty years and many information and communication technologies have been implemented in order to support this type of work. Workplaces have changed substantially, but information is scarce about how actual knowledge workers handle knowledge in their workplaces. This paper presents the results of a joint study of knowledge workers’ workplaces ...

This paper describe the concept of maintenance of work ability (MWA) at workplaces and the contribution of occupational health services (OHS). Changing working life and its demands increase the need for MWA. The concept of MWA is approximately ten years old in Finland. It has attained large popularity in media and is a central trend in the promotion of well-being at workplaces. It has received ...

AIMS This study examined the association between the workplace-effort in psychosocial risk management and later employee-rating of the psychosocial work environment. METHOD The study is based on data from two questionnaire surveys - one including 1013 workplaces and one including 7565 employees from these workplaces. The association was analyzed using multi-level linear regression. The associ...