Department of Physics, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung 824, Taiwan, R.O.C. Graduate Institute of Science Education, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung 824, Taiwan, R.O.C. Department of Physics, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung 804, Taiwan, R.O.C. Department of Occupational Safety and Hygiene, Tajen University, Pingtung 907, Taiwan, R.O.C. (Received Novembe...

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This special edition 7th GOHNET Newsletter will inform you about new practical tools to assess and manage risks at workplace level based on the concept of “Control Banding”. GOHNET Issue 5 introduced readers to one of these control banding tools, the International Chemical Control Toolkit. This Toolkit responds to the need for practical risk assessment and management approaches that can be appl...

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The authors present a case of occupational lung damage from exposure to dust containing aluminium. The first detected objective pathological finding was that of dispersed micronodules in the lungs seen in a chest radiograph. The final diagnosis of pulmonary aluminosis was established after three years of gradual exclusion of other interstitial lung diseases. The diagnosis was supported by the o...

Sandblasting is traditionally known as a high-risk profession for potential development of lung silicosis. Reported is a case of a sandblaster with confirmed accelerated silicosis, a condition rather rarely diagnosed in the Czech Republic. Initially, the patient presented with progressive dry cough and exertional dyspnoea. In the early diagnostic process, a possible occupational aetiology was c...

A survey on oral hygiene practices was conducted on 537 dentate adult patients aged 15 years and over. The aim of this study was to investigate the variation in dental behavior with regards to socio-demographic factors, namely age, sex, ethnicity, income, education and occupational status. Patients attending nine randomly selected government dental clinics were interviewed on their daily oral h...

Department of Public Health, China Medical University, Taichung City, Taiwan Institute of Environmental Health, China Medical University, Taichung City, Taiwan Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, University of North Texas Health Science Centre, Fort Worth, Texas, USA Department of Integrative Physiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute, University ...