Rethinking Research Into (Occupational) Stress

Occupational Ethology: A New Perspective in Occupational Stress Research

The research on stress at work is well established. Sociological concepts on how these stressors operate in relation to physiological consequences have been documented extensively. Current knowledge on stressful working conditions results mostly from analyzing surveys completed by employees. Physiological results on endocrine mediators or on perceived stressors are achieved using experimental p...

Future of research into occupational lung disease.

Rethinking Warehouse Design Research

The Keck Virtual Factory Lab (KVFL) was created to be a platform for computationally-based research on industrial logistics systems, and currently engages nine faculty and over a dozen graduate students. Initially, the KVFL has focused on warehousing and the development of integrated computational tools to support warehouse design and optimization, and warehousing-related courses. Recent collab...

Rethinking research ethics.

Contemporary research ethics policies started with reflection on the atrocities perpetrated upon concentration camp inmates by Nazi doctors. Apparently, as a consequence of that experience, the policies that now guide human subject research focus on the protection of human subjects by making informed consent the centerpiece of regulatory attention. I take the choice of context for policy design...

International research into occupational safety and health protection.

Are we doing the right thing? Are we setting the right priorities for the future in occupational safety and health research? How does BG (Institution for Statutory Accident Insurance and Prevention) research compare nationally and internationally? As a mosaic of answers to these questions, this article explores international research on priorities in occupational research and analyses these aga...