The role and effectiveness of large-scale employment discrimination litigation in combating workplace discrimination is a matter of ongoing dispute. In this paper we examine the remedies obtained by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in litigation filed over a ten-year period in order to compare actual outcomes in this important subset of employment discrimination litigatio...

background: noise as a most common harmful physical agent in workplaces has some effects on the exposed persons such as hearing threshold reduction, increasing blood pressure, and interference with the speech. the adverse side-effect of noise is one of the scientific areas that have seldom been considered by researchers. the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of occupational noise...

health care workers are among the groups with high frequently of exposure to workplace violence and the real dimensions of this problem have not yet been clearly defined. the aim of this study was to review the exposure of nurses to physical violence. in this cross sectional descriptive study, a total 450 nurses completed a standard questionnaire. the survey elicited demographic information and...

background: today, the growth of major industries depends on their appropriate interaction with small and medium enterprises (smes). in iran, smes have 49 or fewer employees. the present study was an attempt to present an overall view of the condition of professional health and safety in such industries in order to gain information regarding activities related to occupational health and safety....

BACKGROUND Workplace stress is a complex phenomenon that may often be dynamic and evolving over time. Traditional linear modeling does not allow representation of recursive feedback loops among the implicated factors. The objective of this study was to develop a multidimensional system dynamics model (SDM) of workplace stress among nursing aides and conduct simulations to illustrate how changes...

OBJECTIVES American Indians are more likely to smoke, less likely to have smoke-free homes, and potentially less likely to have worksite smoke-free policies. We examined correlates of smoke-free policies at home and work among a community-based sample of American Indians in the Midwest. METHODS We examined correlates of smoke-free policies at home and work in a sample of American Indians in t...

The future of professional nursing is threatened today by the current and impending shortage of nurses. While the entire health care industry is affected, it is even more predominant in specialty areas such as urologic nursing. If unresolved, the crisis will be even more significant in the future. According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN, 2001), entrylevel baccalaureat...

S pirometry, the most frequently performed pulmonary function test (PFT), is the cornerstone of occupational respiratory evaluation programs. In the occupational health setting, spirometry plays a critical role in the primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention of workplace-related lung disease.1 Used for both screening and clinical evaluations, spirometry tests are performed in a variety of ve...

S pirometry, the most frequently performed pulmonary function test (PFT), is the cornerstone of occupational respiratory evaluation programs. In the occupational health setting, spirometry plays a critical role in the primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention of workplace-related lung disease.1 Used for both screening and clinical evaluations, spirometry tests are performed in a variety of ve...

Using matched employer-employee level data drawn from the 2004 UK Workplace and Employee Relations Survey, we explore the determinants of a measure of worker commitment and loyalty (CLI) and whether CLI influences workplace performance. Our empirical findings suggest that the employee's industry-occupation specific relative wage is an important factor influencing employee attitudes towards the ...