The aim is to encourage employers and employees to do all they can to put safety first to minimize financial and personal losses resulting from the permanent disability, mental and emotional stresses, as well as the deaths of employees. After implementing the Occupational Safety and Health Act ...
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA Nathan E. Brummel School of Occupational Therapy, Health Sciences Faculty, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile ...
Propylene glycol may be found in a large amount of hand cleaners and disinfectants in the healthcare setting. A study conducted evaluating the ingredients of 100 hand cleansers and disinfectants commercially available in the USA found propylene glycol to be present in approximately 15% of wa- ter...
Medical, industrial hygiene, and safety departments at U. S. Steel collectively developed safe workplace programs. Those hired to run the industrial hygiene and medical departments were often leaders in the fields of occupational health. Discussions with many other professionals in the steel industry,...
1.1. Pesticide usage and human health impacts Pesticide use and handling is a global issue because it affects human health. Estimates cited by the Food and Agriculture Organization (Wilson, 2005) showed that approximately 3 million people are poisoned and 200,000 die from pesticide poisoning every...
Current evidence suggests that dry cleaning and laundry workers are at an increased risk of cancer mortality [7,8]. A National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) study involving 1,708 dry-cleaners exposed to solvents like perchloroethylene (PCE) had a significant excess of tota...
European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) (2014) Eeckelaert L., Dontas S., Georgiadou E., Koukoulaki-Elinyae T., Munar L. Based on an input from the Topic Centre – Occupational Safety and Health (TC-OSH). Occupational health and safety in the hairdressing sector. Ava...
of pathogens to be safe from a public health perspective but without ultimately killing microbial populations. Sanitizers can be applied on inanimate (non-living) surfaces and live tissues (e.g., skin). Sanitizers that can be applied on skins are known as antiseptics (Mahmood et al.2020). ...
species differences between humans and rodents, and possible effects of obnoxious odor in humans. Based on this physiological basis, Part 2 describes a conceptual model for the causation of adverse health effects at these targets that is composed of two pathways. The first, “sensory irritation” ...
While OSHA is responsible for establishing regulations, the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (Public Law 91-596) tasked NIOSH with providing recommendations to avoid hazardous exposure to occupational noise. Importantly, these recommendations were meant to include occupational noise dosages that...