STUDY OBJECTIVE This study aimed firstly to describe the development of cause-specific mortality in forestry workers, farmer/forestry workers, and skilled and semiskilled construction workers between 1970 and 1985 in Finland, and to compare this with mortality in the total working male population. The second aim was to evaluate how well the cause-specific mortality differences between the occup...

Abstract In this study, a light weight portable manual food grinder for domestic use was designed and fabricated to meet grinding needs that arise from erratic power supply in Nigeria. The design analysis crank lever parameters conveyor shaft diameter were done. To make the weight, body of machine, front cover house mechanisms support stand printed with Fused deposition modelling 3D printer. le...

Systematic violations of migrant workers' human rights and striking health disparities among these populations in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are the norm in member countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Migrant laborers comprise about 90 percent of the UAE workforce and include approximately 500,000 construction workers and 450,000 domestic workers. Like many other GCC members cou...

communicate safety information to construction workers: Case studies of organisational use In: Raidén, A B and Aboagye-Nimo, E (Eds) Procs 31 st Annual ARCOM Conference, 7-9 September 2015, Lincoln, UK, Association of Researchers in Construction Management, 519-528. EXPLORING THE POTENTIAL FOR USING VIDEO TO COMMUNICATE SAFETY INFORMATION TO CONSTRUCTION WORKERS: CASE STUDIES OF ORGANISATIONAL USE

OBJECTIVE The overall goal of this research project was to assess ethnic disparities in monetary compensation among construction workers injured on the job through the linkage of medical records and workers' compensation data. METHODS Probabilistic linkage of medical records with workers' compensation claim data. RESULTS In the final multivariable robust regression model, compensation was $...

BACKGROUND Hispanic workers have higher rates of injury and death on construction worksites than workers of other ethnicities. Language barriers and cultural differences have been hypothesized as reasons behind the disparate rates. METHODS We conducted two series of focus groups with union and non-union Hispanic construction workers to ask them about their perceptions of the causes for the un...