OBJECTIVES To assess the occurrence and persistence of two restrictively defined neck-shoulder disorders among sewing machine operators. To assess factors associated with the development of ...

Physical workload during pregnancy and adverse pregnancy outcomes: results from a Danish nationwide occupational register-based pregnancy cohort (DOC*X-Generation) ...

Objectives To investigate the effect of precarious employment (PE) on the risk of diagnosed chronic musculoskeletal disorders ...

Introduction Previous studies suggest respirable crystalline silica (RCS) is an important driver of resurgent pneumoconiosis ...

Objectives According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer, styrene is probably carcinogenic for ...

Objectives To examine the association between workload and kidney injury in a fieldworker cohort with different levels of physically demanding work over a sugarcane harvest, and to assess whether the ...

Objective To estimate the rate of work injury over the 24 h clock in Ontario workers over 5 years (2004–2008). Methods A cross-sectional, observational study of work-related injury and illness was ...

Objectives To estimate the economic burden of lung cancer and mesothelioma due to occupational and para-occupational asbestos exposure in Canada. Methods We estimate the lifetime cost of newly ...

The published evidence on whether workplace health and well-being interventions are as effective in male-dominated industries compared with mixed-gender environments has not been synthesised. We ...

Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA Dr M Medina-Ramón, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 401 Park Drive, Landmark Center, ...

Correspondence to Dr Thomas Clemm, Department of Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology, Statens arbeidsmiljoinstitutt, Oslo, Norway; thomas.clemm{at}outlook.com Background Testing of vibration ...

3 Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 4 Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 5 ...