Objectives In 2014, US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) updated a rule requiring employers to directly report all hospitalisations, amputations and eye enucleations to OSHA within ...

Objectives This study assessed finger blood flow (FBF) among groundskeepers using laser Doppler flowmetry (LDF) and evaluated the association of the FBF with hand-arm vibration (HAV) exposure dose.

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the validity of the checklist individual strength questionnaire (CIS) in the working population. This 20 item self reported questionnaire has often been used in patients with ...

Objectives A 25% reduction of weekly work hours for full-time employees has been shown to improve sleep and alertness and reduce stress during both workdays and days off. The aim of the present study ...

OBJECTIVES Consolidation of epidemiological data on pancreatic cancer and worksite exposures. METHODS Publications during 1969–98 were surveyed. Studies without verified exposures were excluded.

3 Center for Ergonomics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA 4 Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (RMCOEH), University of Utah, Salt Lake City, ...

OBJECTIVES To systematically evaluate the available evidence on occupational risk factors of shoulder pain. METHODS Relevant reports were identified by a systematic search of Medline, Embase, Psychlit ...

1 Coronel Institute for Occupational and Environmental Health, Academic Medical Center, AmCOGG, Amsterdam Center for Research in Health and Health Care, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands ...

Correspondence to Dr Jaana I Halonen, Health Security, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki 00271, Finland; Jaana.Halonen{at}thl.fi Objectives Long commuting times are linked to poor ...

Background: Computer use may have an adverse effect on musculoskeletal outcomes. This study assessed the risk of neck and shoulder pain associated with objectively recorded professional computer use.

Objective To estimate associations between use of specific agricultural pesticides and incident diabetes in women. Methods We used data from the Agricultural Health Study, a large prospective cohort ...