To: My Family, Friends, and Dr. O', who have picked me up when I needed it the most during these past two tumultuous years. I will never forget what you have done for me. This is dedicated to you. iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would first like to thank my advisor of four and a half years, Dr. Patrick O'Shaughnessy for ensuring that this study could occur, and for supporting me for the entirety of my gr...

Evaluation of Musculoskeletal Disorders and Traumatic Injuries Among Employees at a Poultry Processing Plant Kristin Musolin Jessica G. Ramsey James T. Wassell David L. Hard Charles Mueller The Health Hazard Evaluation Program received a request from a poultry processing plant. In response to this request, NIOSH investigators evaluated ergonomic hazards, nerve damage in employees’ hands and wri...

Participatory ergonomics (PE) is a macroergonomics approach in which the endusers actively participate in developing and implementing the technology. PE can be an effective method for involving front-line workers in analyzing and redesigning their own jobs. PE can be used at the macro-level, the micro-level, or somewhere in between. At the macro-level, the focus of the PE program is across an e...

2009 The Author Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Occupational Hygiene Society This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work...

Fire fighters face many hazards in the line of duty. The risks of severe and potentially fatal injuries from the dangerous environment of a fire scene are well known. Additionally, fires generate toxic contaminants, some that are known or suspected to cause cancer. Less is known about long term health effects fire fighters may experience as a result of such work-related exposures. One question ...

Concerns remain about the acute and chronic effects on personnel of waste anesthetic gases in the operating room environment. This study demonstrates a simple and effective means of scavenging waste anesthetic gases when halogenated anesthetics are administered through the pump oxygenator during cardiopulmonary bypass. This technique safeguards workers' health by reducing ambient anesthetic lev...