This study explores the relationship between adoption of industrial robots and workplace injuries. Using establishment-level data on injuries, we find that a one standard deviation increase in our commuting zone-level measure robot exposure reduces work-related annual injury rates by approximately 1.2 cases per 100 workers. US zones more exposed to penetration experience significant drug- or al...

Any account of industrial health in the U.S.A. should start with Dr. Alice Hamilton.t The autobiography of this remarkable woman records not only the author's life-long devotion to the cause of the American industrial worker, but gives a picture of conditions in American industry which, when she first began her work, were a veritable jungle of ignorance, prejudice, and suspicion. But if Dr. Ham...

With increasing industrialization in India, more attention is being paid to the Indian industrial worker and his health and well-being. It is a common fallacy that to obtain satisfactory results in industrial medicine highlytrained specialists and technicians are essential in the first instance. This is reflected in a tendency to send doctors overseas for prolonged training in industrial medici...

Amit Sharma Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engg. HIT, Bahadurgarh, Haryana, INDIA [email protected] Atul Sharma Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engg. MIT, Moradabad, U.P., INDIA [email protected] Dr. Anish Sachdeva Associate Professor Department of Industrial and Production Engineering National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab, INDIA anishsachdeva...

Prognostics and health management (PHM) is a field of research and application which aims at making use of past, present and future information on the environmental, operational and usage conditions of an equipment in order to detect its degradation, diagnose its faults, predict and proactively manage its failures. The present paper reviews the state of knowledge on the methods for PHM, placing...

The US health care sector is large and growing – health care spending in 2011 amounted to $2.7 trillion and 18% of GDP. Approximately half of health care output is allocated via markets. In this paper, we analyze the industrial organization literature on health care markets focusing on the impact of competition on price, quality and treatment decisions for health care providers and health insur...

This book is a study of car workers. It sets out indices of mental health, which can be assessed by a questionnaire and interview, and traces their relation to occupational levels, job satisfactions, characteristics ?f the job, personal characteristics and various aspects ?f the worker's orientation. There are, of course, already many opinions on this, based on impressions a.nd inferences; the ...

The concept of an Impact Factor was first proposed by Eugene Garfield in 1955. Since that time, the impact factor has risen to prominence in the scientific community, and is now being used as a measure of the quality of scientific journals. Journal editors have also recognized the importance that authors place on this matter, with some journals subsequently tailoring editorial strategies in an ...

INTRODUCTION Some people living in the environs of industrial wind turbines (IWTs) report experiencing adverse health and socioeconomic effects. This review considers the hypothesis that annoyance from audible IWTs is the cause of these adverse health effects. METHODS We searched PubMed and Google Scholar for articles published since 2000 that included the terms "wind turbine health," "wind t...