Hearing loss is a significant and unfortunately common occupational malady. Over the past several decades both the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) have initiated efforts to better understand and to limit the occurrence of occupational hearing loss, particularly as it relates to excessive noise exposure. T...

Center for Management of Occupational Injury and Disease, National Taiwan University Hospital, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, National Taiwan University Hospital, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, ChaoYang University of Technology, Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Council of Labor Affairs and Institute of Occupational Medicine and Industrial H...

Occupational accidents severely deteriorate human capital, and hence negatively affect the productivity and competitiveness. But despite these negative points, there are still deficiencies in safety management performance and indicators. Therefore the safety issue needs an active management. For this reason, the writer has proposed an approach to evaluate organizations based on safety managemen...

In order to effectively analyze, control, and prevent occupational health risk and ensure the reliability of the weight, a method based on FMEA (failure mode and effects analysis) and an improved AHP (analytic hierarchy process) model was established. The occupational disease of the occupational health and safety management system (OHSAS18001) of the mining industry in the southwest of Hubei Pr...

BackgroundResearchers have found that management safety practices may predict occupational injuries and psychological distresses in the workplace. The present study examined the perception of management safety practices related to injuries reporting and its dimensions among workers of Isfahan Steel Company (ESCO).     Methods A self-administered anonymous survey was distributed to 189 workers. ...

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....