The main focus of risk management is technical and rational analysis about the operational risks and by those imposed by the occupational environment. In this work one seeks to contribute to the risk perception study and to better comprehend how a group of occupational safety students assesses a set of activities and environmental agents. In this way it was used theory sustained by psychometric...

A shift in occupational structure towards non-agricultural activities is widely viewed as a key component of European economic growth during the early modern ‘Little Divergence’. Yet little is known about this process in those parts of eastern-central Europe that experienced the early modern ‘second serfdom’, the massive increase in the institutional powers of landlords over the rural populatio...

This study explored in what way and to what extent people’s occupational position corresponds with the consumption of news and the exposure to political content offered by the traditional mass media TV, radio and newspaper. Empirical data from the ’Media use in the Netherlands, 2000’ survey among a representative sample of the Dutch population (Konig, et al., 2005) (N=825) were used. Occupation...

background accident is an event that occurs suddenly, unexpectedly and inadvertently under unforeseen circumstances. accidents can have individual, social and economical effects 2080 injury cases including labor-law workers were studied in mashhad city, islamic republic of iran. their data were collected from the labor office archive. objectives this study was conducted to determine the effecti...

This paper examines covariates of the occupational age structure and the openness of jobs to older workers. Using a large number of data sets, which together span the years 1983-98, the authors focus on the structure of compensation, job skill requirements, and working hours and conditions as the principal determinants of occupational access. Older male and female workers, they find, face subst...

Background: Systematic and purposeful study of self-efficacy beliefs of Iranian nurses in the face of occupational stressors requires understanding the importance of studying this issue and then having a suitable tool to measure it in this group. This study aimed to assess the validity and reliability of the short form of Occupational Coping Self-Efficacy for Nurses Scale (OCSE-N) among Iranian...

OBJECTIVES We explored the clinical application of goal-directed therapy in community-based rehabilitation from the perspective of clients with traumatic brain injury (TBI), their significant others, and their treating occupational therapists. METHOD Twelve people with TBI and their significant others completed an outpatient, goal-directed, 12-week occupational therapy program. Semistructured...

Empirical analyses of sex differences in the career consequences of family migration have focused on adjudicating between the human capital and the gender-role explanations but have ignored the potential infl uence of gender inequality in the structure of the labor market. In this paper we estimate conditional difference-in-difference models with individual-, familyand occupation-level data to ...

L. I. Cioca, Faculty of Engineering, “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Romania, L. Ivascu, Faculty of Management in Production and Transportation, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania The paper presents the trends in the evolution of occupational diseases in Romania in comparison to the EU and the US, as incidence of occupational diseases, their interrelationship with the exposure to ...

OBJECTIVE We examined the preclinical curricular content pertaining to low vision rehabilitation (LVR) included in occupational therapy (OT) and occupational therapy assistant (OTA) programs. METHOD An e-mail survey containing questions about program structure and the extent of course material related to LVR in the curriculum was sent to directors of all accredited OT and OTA programs in the ...