Low back pain, intervertebral disc and occupational diseases

International audience

Occupational respiratory diseases /

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Occupational risk in a glass manufacturing industry unit

Risk assessment is one of the main pillars of the framework directive and other directives in respect of health and safety. It is also the basis of an effective management of safety and health as it is essential to reduce work-related accidents and occupational diseases. To survey the hazards eventually present in the workplaces the usual procedures are i) gathering information about tasks/activities, employees, equipment, legislation and standards; ii) observation of the tasks and; iii) quantification of respective risks through the most adequate risk assessment among the methodologies available. From this preliminary evaluation of a welding plant and, from the different measurable parameters, noise was considered the most critical. This paper focus not only the usual way of risk assessment for noise but also another approach that may allow us to identify the technique with which a weld is being performed.

Screening for occupational asthma by using a self-administered questionnaire in a clinical setting

OBJECTIVE: Because of its high prevalence, early screening for occupational asthma (OA) is crucial. We aimed to evaluate the screening performance of the Occupational Asthma Screening Questionnaire-11 items (OASQ-11) in a clinical setting. METHODS: Between January 2009 and December 2011, 169 workers referred for potential OA to our hospital completed the OASQ-11 and underwent workups to determine the final diagnosis. The discriminative abilities of the OASQ-11 as a whole and in relation to demographic and exposure parameters were determined by the area under the receiving operator characteristic curve (AUC). RESULTS: Model 1, consisting of the OASQ's items, showed fair discrimination (AUC, 0.69; 95% confidence interval, 0.58 to 0.80). Addition of age and exposure duration to model 1 improved discrimination (AUC, 0.80; confidence interval, 0.72 to 0.88). CONCLUSION: A simple model consisting of the OASQ-11's items, age, and exposure duration could well discriminate subjects with OA in a clinical setting.

Occupational exposure to styrene.

"September 1983."

Occupational exposure to refined petroleum solvents.

Issued July 1977.

Evaluation of occupational hazards from industrial radiation : a survey of selected states /

"NIOSH technical information."

Occupational exposure to cadmium in the construction industry.

Shipping list no.: 93-0344-P.

Report to the director, National Cancer Institute, from the Occupational Cancer Task Force.

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NIOH and NIOSH basis for an occupational health standard : grain dust : health hazards of storing, handling, and shipping grain /

Summary in Swedish.

Occupational medicine symposia : [papers presented at the 34th American Medical Association Congress on Occupational Health, held September 9 to 10, 1974, in Chicago].

Includes bibliographical references.

Special occupational hazard review and control recommendations for nickel carbonyl /

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Occupational marks and other physical signs; a guide to personal identification.

Mode of access: Internet.