The author presents a review of the history of occupational health in Brazil, concerning the last 3 centuries. This period was divided into (a) slave labour, (b) immigrant labour, and (c) industrial labour. The author shows the early occupational diseases, pioneering occupational physicians and Brazilian laws on the subject. The creation of Fundacentro (Brazilian Foundation of Occupational Heal...

The present document is the result of a consensus reached by a panel of experts from European and non-European countries on Occupational Rhinitis (OR), a disease of emerging relevance which has received little attention in comparison to occupational asthma. The document covers the main items of OR including epidemiology, diagnosis, management, socio-economic impact, preventive strategies and me...

Musculoskeletal disorders are among the most costly health care problems facing society today. The scientific literature has indicated that psychosocial factors, individual factors, workplace physical requirements, and workplace organizational factors have been associated with risk. Since musculoskeletal risk is multi-dimensional, the magnitude of risk attributable to various factors can be of ...

glutaraldehyde is commonly used in endoscopy labs to clean and disinfect instruments. it can cause direct irritation of the skin and the upper and lower airways. health care workers are also at risk for the development of irritant-induced or sensitizer-induced occupational asthma when exposed to this chemical. herein, we report on a patient who had frequent exposures to glutaraldehyde over one ...

penile amputation is an uncommon urological emergency. although rare, traumatic amputation of penis is a challenging injury to treat. however, modern microsurgical reconstruction techniques have improved success rate of penile replantation and become the procedure of choice for managing these patients. herein, we report on a case of penile amputation following an industrial accident.

The aim of the present study was to identify relations between occupational stress and occupational class in Japanese civil servants, using two occupational stress models-the Effort-Reward Imbalance (ERI) Model and the Job Demand-Control (JDC) Model. The subjects were employees of three local public organizations. We distributed self-administered questionnaires and assessed occupational stress ...

background: working conditions have considerably changed and exposure to psychosocial risk factors, particularly occupational stress, has recently had an increasing trend. studies have shown that sickness absence was the worst outcome of occupational stress. the present study aimed to assess the relationship between dimensions of occupational stress and sickness absence in a gas company in bous...

Precipitation, which usually occurs by nucleation, growth and coarsening, may be affected by elastic stresses which influence the thermodynan~ics of the system and thereby the driving force for precipitation. Such stresses may be internal, e.g. coherency stresses, or external, i.e. externally applied stresses. The consequences for nucleation, growth and coarsening are discussed in detail with s...

Introduction: Modeling of the surface stresses on Europa has been performed to date, considering tidal, nonsynchronous, and polar wander sources of stress [3-6]. The results of such models can be used to match lineament orientation with the candidate stress patterns. Moreover, stratigraphic analysis can be used in combination with stress modeling to infer the evolution of Europa’s surface back ...

The geometric structure of stress theory on differentiable manifolds is considered. Mechanics is assumed to take place on an m-dimensional and no additional metric or parallelism structure is assumed. Two different approaches are described. The first is a generalisation of the traditional Cauchy approach where the resulting stresses are represented mathematically as vector valued (m − 1)forms. ...