Past efforts to improve health and safety performance in the construction sector tended focus more on aspect, particularly reducing eliminating physical injuries [...]

BACKGROUND Deaths due to occupational disease and injury place a heavy burden on society in terms of economic costs and human suffering. METHODS We estimate the annual deaths due to selected diseases for which an occupational association is reasonably well established and quantifiable, by calculation of attributable fractions (AFs), with full documentation; the deaths due to occupational inju...

BACKGROUND The industrial revolution that took place in the United Kingdom (UK) between 1760 and 1830 led to profound social change. Occupational medicine was concerned with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of occupational diseases, that is, diseases directly caused by exposure to workplace hazards. A similar pattern of development has occurred globally. METHODS A review of relevant l...

Background: Occupational diseases are very prevalent in the world, especially in developing countries. Occupational dermatoses are responsible for most of these cases. However, epidemiological studies are rare in Brazil. oBjectives: To verify the panorama of occupational skin diseases in Brazil describing frequencies of work-related dermatoses and their sociodemographic and occupational pattern...

The usage and types of chemicals become developed, specialized, diversified, and newly exposed workers are concerning to occupational disease. In Korea, with the industrialization, the uses of many chemicals have increased since the 1970s. As a consequence, there have been increasing the occupational diseases caused by poisonous chemicals, such as heavy metal poisoning, solvent poisoning and oc...

occupational asthma has been reported  to  be the most  common  chronic respiratory occupational disease in many developed countries, and  as with other  occupational lung diseases, occupational asthma is potentially preventable. we report  the case of a 24-year-old baker who experienced pneumomediastinum as a consequence of workplace exposure. this is the first report of pneumomediastinum as a...

The paper outlines the main constituents of occupational risk in railway workers, which are based on the sanitary and biomedical criteria of injury safety. Sociomedical aspects of the incidence of railway occupational diseases and injuries are discussed. A list of major occupational factors and causes that determine a high occupational risk in railway workers is given.

Occupational exposure is an important, global cause of respiratory disease. Unlike many other non-communicable lung diseases, the proximal causes of many occupational lung diseases are well understood and they should be amenable to control with use of established and effective approaches. Therefore, the risks arising from exposure to silica and asbestos are well known, as are the means of their...