background: this study presents a framework for development of integrated health, safety and ergonomic (hse) in complex critical systems. total ergonomics model considers conventional ergonomics factors as well as management and organizational factors. methods : control room operation and maintenance department of a thermal power plant was chosen as the case of our study. to achieve the above o...

This report concludes that there is great scope for expansion of the simulation facilities so far developed. In particular, it is recognised that training and competency testing of teams of personnel such as the banksman and supply ship's master could be integrated into crane simulator training scenarios and that this approach offers great potential for reducing the number of crane related acci...

This study provided data that can be used to discriminate asbestiform and non-asbestiform amphiboles contained in landscaping rocks recreational parks. The length width of fibers being at least 5 μm long with a minimum aspect ratio 3:1 were measured using transmission electron microscope compared an asbestos reference sample. park samples thicker than 1 (average 1.9 μm), while the Health Safe...

Fitness for work assessment is inherent to occupational medicine practice, whether at the pre-employment stage, or when a person is an established employee. Many occupational health practitioners are involved in the assessment of fitness of workers to undertake safety critical work, for example, driving a heavy goods vehicle or a train or working in health care. But, how do we define safety cri...

P Garvey ([email protected])1, P McKeown1, P Kelly2, M Cormican3, W Anderson4, A Flack2, S Barron2, N De Lappe3, J Buckley5, C Cosgrove6, D Molloy6, J O’Connor3, P O’Sullivan7, J Matthews4, M Ward8, A Breslin9, M B O’Sullivan10, K Kelleher11, A McNamara12, C Foley-Nolan13, H Pelly14, F Cloak1, Outbreak control team15 1. Health Protection Surveillance Centre, Dublin, Ireland 2. Irish Depart...

To understand the function of multiple heat shock transcription factors in higher eukaryotes, we have characterized the interaction of recombinant mouse heat shock transcription factors 1 and 2 (mHSF1 and mHSF2) with their binding site, the heat shock element (HSE). For our analysis, we utilized the human HSP70 HSE, which consists of three perfect 5'-nGAAn-3' sites (1, 3, and 4) and two imperfe...

BACKGROUND Large health care databases are a valuable source of infectious disease epidemiology if diagnoses are valid. The aim of this study was to investigate the accuracy of the recorded diagnosis coding of herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE) in the Danish National Patient Registry (DNPR). METHODS The DNPR was used to identify all hospitalized patients, aged ≥15 years, with a first-time diag...

BACKGROUND Herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE) is a devastating disease. METHODS In Sweden, a nationwide retrospective study of the incidence, morbidity, and mortality associated with HSE during the 12-year period 1990-2001 was conducted. The national inpatient register data were used, and diagnostic data from the virus laboratories were validated. RESULTS In the study period, 638 patients ho...

Testing of composite fecal (environmental) samples from high traffic areas in dairy herds has been shown to be a cost-effective and sensitive method for classification of herd status for Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP). In the National Animal Health Monitoring System's (NAHMS) Dairy 2007 study, the apparent herd-level prevalence of MAP was 70.4% (369/524 had ≥ 1 culture-positi...