They are especially grateful to Máximo Jéria for his encouragement and support of the initiative that resulted in this paper. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the Inter-American Development Bank. Foreword Latin America and the Caribbean are going through a series of major transitions — economic, social, political , demograph...

BACKGROUND Healthcare professionals encounter many medical risks while providing healthcare services to individuals and the community. Thus, occupational safety studies are very important in health care organizations. They involve studies performed to establish legal, technical, and medical measures that must be taken to prevent employees from sustaining physical or mental damage because of wor...

background: researchers have mentioned that safety climate may predict occupational accidents and psychological distresses in the workplace. the present study examined degree of safety climate related to occupational stress and its dimensions among workers’ isfahan steel company. methods: a self-administered anonymous was distributed to 189 workers. the survey included demographic factors, occu...

Introduction Occupational exposure limits (OELs) 1 for the protection of workers have been around at least since 1939 when the National (later changed to American) Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) published its inaugural acceptable workplace exposure limits (now known as threshold limit values, or TLVs). In 1970, the U. S. Occupational Safety and Health Act incorporated ...

In 2009, a preliminary framework for how climate change could affect worker safety and health was described. That framework was based on a literature search from 1988-2008 that supported seven categories of climate-related occupational hazards: (1) increased ambient temperature; (2) air pollution; (3) ultraviolet radiation exposure; (4) extreme weather; (5) vector-borne diseases and expanded ha...

This paper examines the relationship between workplace reform and occupational health and safety. Since the early 1980s major changes have occurred to both industrial relations and occupational health and safety (OHS) legislation. Legislative changes and policy initiatives have created both problems and opportunities in terms of improving occupational health and safety. The paper identifies rea...

This issue of " Industrial Health " marks the start of the 50th volume, building on the remarkable developments published on the many pages since it began in 1963. The journal has served as an interacting focal point for scientific research in the fields of occupational safety and health. Through the pages of this journal, we can clearly see the role of collaborative scientific research in enha...

Traditional safety and health system measurement procedures, practiced in various industries produce qualitative results with a degree of uncertainty. This paper presents a fuzzy-logic-based approach to developing a fuzzy model for assessing the safety and health status in the tea industry. For this, the overall safety and health status at a tea estate has been considered as a function of 4 inp...

The health and safety of workers is the primary concern of occupational health nurses. The purpose of this study was to identify the global occupational health and safety responsibilities of occupational health nurses based in the United States and factors contributing to these global responsibilities. A total of 2,123 American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, Inc. members completed a...