OBJECTIVE To study the mortality from cardiovascular and other chronic non-neoplastic diseases after long term exposure to inorganic mercury. Limited information is available on the effect of chronic ...

2 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK Correspondence to: Prof. J C McDonald National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College School of Medicine, Department of Occupational and ...

Falling asleep while driving accounts for a considerable proportion of vehicle accidents under monotonous driving conditions. Many of these accidents are related to work--for example, drivers of ...

Correspondence to Dr Annunziata Faustini, Department of Epidemiology, Regional Health Service of Lazio, via Santa Costanza, 53, Rome 00198, Italy; a.faustini{at}deplazio.it. Background An association ...

Objectives Police work is an occupation replete with stress. The present study examined associations between specific police stressors (overall, administrative pressure, physical threat, and lack of ...

Background Despite the fact that labour market flexibility has resulted in an expansion of precarious employment in industrialised countries, to date there is limited empirical evidence concerning its ...

Background: Evidence from toxicological studies indicates that the risk of respiratory diseases varies with asbestos fibre length and width. However, there is a total lack of epidemiological evidence ...

1 The Institute for Occupational Health, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea 2 Graduate School of Public Health, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea 7 Cardiovascular ...

Background Thousands of people living in close proximity to gold mine waste dumps (GMWDs), are exposed to wind-swept, silica-rich dust. The effects on respiratory heath consequent on this exposure are ...

Introduction Coal miners in Queensland Australia have a pre-employment medical and then medical every five years. In 2015, cases of coal workers’ pneumoconiosis (CWP) were identified among ...

Objective To identify, appraise and synthesise studies that have examined the degree to which new workers are at an elevated risk of work-related acute injuries and musculoskeletal (MSK) injuries.