AUSTRALIACROSS-sectional methodSELF-evaluationQUALITATIVE researchQUESTIONNAIRESDESCRIPTIVE statisticsLONELINESSPROFESSIONAL identityPSYCHOLOGICAL adaptationEXPERIENCEIntroduction: Occupational recovery for people living with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome requires better assessment and understanding of the ...
11]. However, the majority of older people with functional impairments have no access to timely occupational interventions because they have limited traditional rehabilitation resources [14]. Furthermore, older people have difficulty
Although unusual work schedules were considered ‘novel’ by Brief and Scala (1975), nowadays shifts that exceed 8 h per day or 40 h per week which are implemented to maintain continuous operations are not unusual but, in many cases, the norm (Government of Western Australia, 2019; Hartwig ...
A significant association between nurse burnout and patient safety was found in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Ecuador, Germany, Iran, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Norway, Oman, the Slovak Republic, South Africa, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the US but not in ...
Objectives: To determine the national burden of working time lost to occupational injury and disease in Australia compensable by workers' compensation schemes; to characterise the distribution of time lost by age, sex, and injury and disease type. Study design: Retrospective population‐ba...
Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional online survey in Australia that asked welders about their welding tasks and the control measures they used to protect against UVR exposure. Results: There were 634 respondents, of whom 411 undertook welding themselves, 36 supervised other weld...
The Stone Benchtop Industry (SBI) in Australia started using artificial stone in the early 2000s but unfortunately practices in the sector including dry-cutting, polishing and inadequate ventilation and respirator use has exposed workers in this industry to a very high risk of silicosis. Silica ...
The proposed session is to discuss injury management consultation in Australia as legislation incorporated into the Workers' Compensation system. METHODS. We will discuss the effect on Workers' Compensation return-to-work timeframes and management outcomes. Discussion about the history and the progress ...