Occupational Diseases and Occupational Accidents Including Disease Diagnosis and Prevention

[Social security in industrial accidents, occupational and other diseases].

[Possibilities, limitations and results of accident prevention in occupational accidents].

Technical measures to eliminate risk relevant factors offer good chances of success in occupational accident prevention. However such dominant factors get more and more scarce. To further reduce the accident rate, activities in the fields of information, training and motivation have to be increased. Since it is difficult to estimate the efficiency of such measures, suitable evaluation measures ...

[Sleeping disorders and injury prevention of occupational or domestic accidents].

Obstructive sleep apnoeas affect a significant proportion of the middle-aged population. They are due to the closure of upper airways during sleep and cause fragmented sleep, which leads to excessive daily drowsiness. Sleepiness due to apnoea is acknowledged by 10 to 30% of subjects in epidemiological surveys. It impairs vigilance, and therefore represents a risk factor for traffic, domestic an...

The Relationship between Cognitive-Attention Syndrome and Occupational Stress of Workers Exposed to Occupational Accidents

Introduction: The present study has determined the relationship between cognitive-attention syndrome and job stress of employees exposed to occupational accidents in Isfahan Steel Company. Methodology: The method of the present study is cross-sectional that was performed in 2019 on production line workers exposed to accidents in the steel production company in Isfahan. The statistical popula...

Absence from work due to occupational and non-occupational accidents.

AIMS The aim of the present study was to investigate absence from work in Denmark due to occupational and non-occupational accidents. BACKGROUND Since the beginning of the last decade, political focus has been placed on the population's working capacity and the scope of absence due to illness. Absence from work is estimated at between 3% and 6% of working hours in the EU and costs are estimat...