occupational hazards, exposure to blood and body fluids (bbf) accidents and safety precautions constitute an important public health issue. we assessed the prevalence and determinants of exposure to occupational hazards among nurses, and their knowledge of occupational safety precautions. in a cross-sectional study, we surveyed 332 nurses working in 4 hospitals, nablus, west bank, palestine, by...

blood and body fluid exposure is a major occupational safety problems for health care workers. therefore, we conducted a descriptive and retrospective study to identify the characteristics of blood exposure accidents in health care settings which lasted five years (2005-2009) at the two university hospitals of sfax. we have 593 blood exposure accidents in health care settings 152 (25.6%) health...

We report 77 cases of occupational exposures for 57 healthcare workers at the Ebola Treatment Center in Conakry, Guinea, during the Ebola virus disease outbreak in 2014-2015. Despite the high incidence of 3.5 occupational exposures/healthcare worker/year, only 18% of workers were at high risk for transmission, and no infections occurred.

BACKGROUND The aim of this paper is to highlight emerging data on occupational attributable risk in asthma. Despite well documented outbreaks of disease and the recognition of numerous specific causal agents, occupational exposures previously had been relegated a fairly minor role relative to other causes of adult onset asthma. In recent years there has been a growing recognition of the potenti...

Occupational asthma is the most common form of occupational lung disease in the developed world at the present time. In this review, the epidemiology, pathogenesis/mechanisms, clinical presentations, management, and prevention of occupational asthma are discussed. The population attributable risk of asthma due to occupational exposures is considerable. Current understanding of the mechanisms by...

Feed mill workers may handle or process maize contaminated with aflatoxins (AFs). This condition may lead to an unacceptable intake of toxins deriving from occupational exposure. This study assessed the serological and urinary levels of AFs in workers exposed to potentially contaminated dusts in two mills. From March to April 2014, blood and urine samples were collected, on Monday and Friday mo...

T here has been a remarkable increase in recent years of individual and public perceptions about health effects caused i y toxic chemical and physical agents in the workplace and elsewhere in the environment. Although the full nature and extent of the health burden resulting from occupational and environmental exposures remain to be elucidated, a consensus has emerged that our health care syste...

BACKGROUND Three longitudinal studies of cancer incidence in varied populations of World Trade Center responders have been conducted. METHODS We compared the design and results of the three studies. RESULTS Separate analyses of these cohorts revealed excess cancer incidence in responders for all cancers combined and for cancers of the thyroid and prostate. Methodological dissimilarities inc...

Studies of occupational exposures have made major contributions to our understanding of human carcinogenesis. About one third of the factors identified as definite or probable human carcinogens were first investigated in the workplace and these exposures exact a considerable toll on working populations. There are many additional workplace exposures that are suspect carcinogens that require furt...

OBJECTIVES The French National Occupational Diseases Surveillance and Prevention Network (RNV3P) is a French network of occupational disease specialists, which collects, in standardised coded reports, all cases where a physician of any specialty, referred a patient to a university occupational disease centre, to establish the relation between the disease observed and occupational exposures, ind...