Restaurant employees must deal with loud noise, busy environments, difficult customers, heavy, awkward, sharp, and hot objects, repetitive motions, and stress on various joints, all of which can lead to fatigue, sudden accidents, and longterm musculoskeletal injury. The goal of this case study was to assess the risk of injuries and accidents from conducting various tasks in the restaurant, spec...

OBJECTIVE To examine engagement in home safety practices to prevent injuries in preschool children among white and non-white ethnic minority families. DESIGN A self completion postal questionnaire assessed sociodemographic characteristics and engagement in home safety practices. SETTING Deprived areas in the city of Nottingham, United Kingdom. SUBJECTS 3906 caregivers of children aged und...

INTRODUCTION Most foreign bodies pass through the gastrointestinal tract uneventfully. The majority of the reported literature describes the management of ingested blunt objects. However, ingestion of sharp objects can still occur with a higher rate of perforation corresponding to treatment dilemmas. CASE PRESENTATION We report the conservative management of an inadvertently ingested sharp fo...

background and objectives: needle stick and sharp injuries (nsis) has remained as a persisting occupational hazard among the healthcare workers. this study aimed to provide updated information on the intensity and potential causes of the problem in iran, by surveying a sample from major hospitals affiliated with tehran university of medical sciences.   methods: of 3312 healthcare workers with t...

Multiple studies have suggested that the risk of bloodborne virus transmission through a community-acquired needlestick—mainly HIV, hepatitis B (HBV), and C (HCV)—is exceedingly low. However, lack clear safety protocols public education beyond laboratory, hospital, clinic settings may be needlessly contributing to improper disposal needles, syringes, other sharps an inflated perception viral ri...

A visual search has been made of four fields using United Kingdom 1.2m Schmidt Objective Prism plates with a reciprocal dispersion of 1 180 A/mm at HP. Such plate material is ideally suited to searches for emission-line galaxies. We present a catalogue of 53 emission-line objects, which comprises 45 galaxies, where individual HI1 regions are resolved in 16 bright galaxies; 8 are emission li...

Background: Needlestick injury is a dangerous work accident that causes blood contact with pa- tients and at risk of being infected borne diseases such as hepatitis B virus (HBV), C (HCV), human immunodeficiency (HIV). The purpose this study was to analyze the influence unsafe behavior factors on incidence accidents due needlestick health workers in hospitals. Subjects Method: This research con...

BACKGROUND Injury patterns and interpretation of injuries in homicidal deaths are important components of medicolegal autopsies. The objective of this article is to describe the incidence of female homicides and their related injury patterns with reference to autopsy practices in South Africa. METHODS A national retrospective mortuary-based study of homicides in women of 14 years and older in...