Aims: (1) To describe the prevalence of fatigue among employees in different work schedules (day work, three-shift, five-shift, and irregular shift work); (2) to investigate whether different work ...

Correspondence to: Dr M J H Huibers, Department of Epidemiology, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, Netherlands; marcus.huibers{at}hag.unimaas.nl Background: Persistent fatigue ...

Background Integrated and collaborative efforts between stakeholders, including Government, private sector, labour unions, academic and research institutions, and other national and international NGOs ...

Aims: This study examined the relation between months on the job and lost-time claim rates, with a particular focus on age related differences. Methods: Workers’ compensation records and labour force ...

Correspondence to: Prof. T S Kristensen National Institute of Occupational Health, Lerso Parkalle 105, DK-2100 Copenhagen O, Denmark; tskami.dk If you wish to reuse ...

3 Centre for Prevention and Health Services Research, Public Health and Health Services Division, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands 4 Institute for ...

Aims: To assess whether workers under significant thermal stress necessarily dehydrated during their exposure and whether “involuntary dehydration” was inevitable, as supported by ISO 9866 and other ...

Aims: Most industrialised countries have public income maintenance programmes to protect workers in case of disability but studies addressing disability risk of specific professional groups are rare.

Background: Both air and noise pollution associated with motor vehicle traffic have been associated with cardiovascular disease. Similarities in pollution source and health outcome mean that there is ...

Objectives To provide systematically evaluated evidence of prospective associations between exposure to physical, psychological and gender-based violence and health among healthcare, social care and ...

Objectives This study investigates the impact of different work paces on cardiorespiratory outcomes, perceived effort and carried load (CL) in industrial workers. Methods A randomised cross-over trial ...

4 The Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Rikshospitalet University Hospital, 0027 Oslo, Norway Correspondence to: Dr B Randem Centre for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Rikshospitalet ...