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 ...
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...
Although the RHCA 2021 repealed the Hazardous Chemical Substances Regulations (HCSR) of 1995 published under the Occupational Health and Safety Act (Act No. 85 of 1993), the revised OELs are still only for general industries and are not applicable to hazardous chemical agents in the mining ...
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,...
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...
without causing diseases from the public health standpoint. Sanitizers may have a two-stage approach; clean and disinfect. However, the disinfection efficiency in sanitizers is limited compared with disinfectants, and it depends mainly on the contact time and the biocide concentration in the ...
The domestic waste collectors adopted coping strategies, such as self-medication, to deal with these occupational hazards, since most of them were not covered by guaranteed health insurance. In addition, the study revealed the non-compliance and non-enforcement of occupational health and safety ...
Conclusion: Non-health occupational concepts are underutilized in discourses that focus on decreasing the social barriers to being occupied in general and in relation to disabled people, which is a missed opportunity and should be fixed. Keywords: disabled people; people with disabilities; occupational...