The risk of developing vibration white fingers and neurosensory symptoms increases with the duration and intensity of the exposure. The aim of this study was to investigate the risk of developing vibration whi...
Authors: Lars Gerhardsson, Christina Ahlstrand, Per Ersson and Ewa Gustafsson
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2020
15:18
Exposure to chemical compounds occurs in numerous occupational settings, among which the research and healthcare laboratories have not been adequately investigated. These settings are characterized by an extreme ...
Authors: Rosa Papadopoli, Carmelo Giuseppe Angelo Nobile, Alessandro Trovato, Claudia Pileggi and Maria Pavia
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2020
15:17
Exposure to asbestos causes non-malignant and malignant diseases including asbestosis, lung cancer, and mesothelioma. The modern history of such diseases goes back more than a century.
Authors: Arthur L. Frank
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2020
15:16
The aim of this study was to determine if there is an increased risk of incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) resulting from workplace mobbing measured with two mobbing instruments in the Gutenberg Health Study.
Authors: Karla Romero Starke, Janice Hegewald, Andreas Schulz, Susan Garthus-Niegel, Matthias Nübling, Philipp S. Wild, Natalie Arnold, Ute Latza, Sylvia Jankowiak, Falk Liebers, Karin Rossnagel, Merle Riechmann-Wolf, Stephan Letzel, Manfred Beutel, Norbert Pfeiffer, Karl Lackner…
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2020
15:15
Occupation related fatality and mortality rate is becoming the devastating issue globally as reported by the International Labor Organization (ILO). Though there are reports about exposure and burden of occupa...
Authors: Yoseph Merkeb Alamneh, Abriham Zegeye Wondifraw, Ayenew Negesse, Daniel Bekele Ketema and Tadesse Yirga Akalu
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2020
15:14
No prospective evaluation of surgical smoke evacuation systems has yet been conducted anywhere in the world. A prospective randomized study was conducted to clarify the usefulness of a surgical smoke evacuatio...
Flooding is an increasingly prevalent natural hazard worldwide and can have a profound impact on the mental health of those directly and indirectly affected. Little is known about the impact on business owners...
Authors: Keersten Cordelia Fitzgerald, Sabrina Winona Pit, Margaret Rolfe, John McKenzie, Veronica Matthews, Jo Longman and Ross Bailie
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2020
15:12
Health behavior is presumed to be influenced by organizational factors. This study analyzes how workplace characteristics influence health behavior in terms of participation at health measures.
Authors: Annika Reinhardt, Johanna Adams, Klaus Schöne, Dirk-Matthias Rose and Stefan Sammito
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2020
15:11
Failing to integrate all sources of a ubiquitous hazard candidate may explain inconsistent and/or null, and overall misleading, results in epidemiological studies such as those related to shift-work.
Authors: Thomas C. Erren, Philip Lewis and Peter Morfeld
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2020
15:10
Carbon disulfide (CS2) exacerbates the effect of noise on hearing, and disrupts the vestibular system. The goal of this study was to determine whether these effects are also observed with intermittent CS2 exposur...
Authors: Monique Chalansonnet, Maria Carreres-Pons, Thomas Venet, Aurélie Thomas, Lise Merlen, Stéphane Boucard, Frédéric Cosnier, Hervé Nunge, Elodie Bonfanti, Jordi Llorens, Pierre Campo and Benoît Pouyatos
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2020
15:9
To test the effects of guided endurance training on work ability in middle-aged female hospital workers of various occupations.
Authors: Hedwig T. Stenner, Julian Eigendorf, Arno Kerling, Momme Kueck, Alexander A. Hanke, Johanna Boyen, Anne-Katrin Nelius, Anette Melk, Dietmar Boethig, Christoph Bara, Andres Hilfiker, Dominik Berliner, Johann Bauersachs, Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner, Jörg Eberhard, Meike Stiesch…
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2020
15:8
There have been only a limited number of studies available on the physical requirements in dance teachers (DT), who are responsible for the training of recreational and/or professional dancers and/or dance stu...
Authors: Eileen M. Wanke, Mike Schmidt, Gerhard Oremek and David A. Groneberg
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2020
15:7
The trend is going into the direction of flexible work arrangements in open workspaces in which employees can decide where and when to work. The aim of this study was to analyze effects of a transition to open...
Authors: Stefanie Mache, Ricarda Servaty and Volker Harth
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2020
15:5
Exposure to airborne zinc oxide (ZnO) particles occurs in many industrial processes, especially in galvanizing and welding. Systemic inflammation after experimental inhalation of ZnO particles has been demonst...
Authors: Assem Aweimer, Birger Jettkant, Christian Monsé, Olaf Hagemeyer, Vera van Kampen, Benjamin Kendzia, Vitali Gering, Eike-Maximilian Marek, Jürgen Bünger, Andreas Mügge, Thomas Brüning and Rolf Merget
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2020
15:4
Content type: ResearchPublished on: 28 February 2020
Snakebites are emergent and life-threatening injuries that may require intensive care. Physicians face difficulties in dealing with snakebite injuries due to the knowledge gaps in the diagnosis and management ...
Authors: Suha S. Sulaiman, Isra K. Kharusha, Ahmad M. Samara, Samah W. Al-Jabi and Sa’ed H. Zyoud
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2020
15:3
Content type: ResearchPublished on: 19 February 2020
Workplace nutrition has been identified as a priority setting that can significantly reduce cardiovascular diseases (CVD) risk factors. This study was conducted as a part of the workplace education program to ...
Authors: Bahar Hassani, Reza Amani, Mohammad Hussein Haghighizadeh and Marzieh Araban
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2020
15:2
Content type: ResearchPublished on: 13 February 2020
Psychosocial stressors in the workplace can be detrimental to mental health. Conflicts at work, e.g. aggression, hostility or threats from coworkers, supervisors or customers, can be considered a psychosocial ...
Authors: Andrea E. Zuelke, Susanne Roehr, Matthias L. Schroeter, A. Veronica Witte, Andreas Hinz, Christoph Engel, Cornelia Enzenbach, Joachim Thiery, Markus Loeffler, Arno Villringer and Steffi G. Riedel-Heller
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2020
15:1
Content type: ResearchPublished on: 12 February 2020
Burnout syndrome is a work-related chronic stress that is described as emotional exhaustion, a decreased sense of personal accomplishment, and depersonalization. it has been considered an important problem esp...
Authors: Bahaa Aldin Alhaffar, Ghadir Abbas and Alaa Aldin Alhaffar
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2019
14:31
Content type: ResearchPublished on: 10 December 2019
In 2013 RheinMain University launched its bachelor’s degree program Health Care Economics requiring each student to participate in a mandatory two-month nursing internship. A preliminary risk assessment reveal...
Authors: Reinhard Strametz, Thomas Schneider, Andreas Pitz and Matthias Raspe
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2019
14:30
Content type: ResearchPublished on: 4 December 2019
In June of 2019, a working group convened by the International Agency for Research on Cancer [IARC] concluded that “night shift work” is probably carcinogenic to humans (a Group 2A carcinogen). This was based ...
Authors: Thomas C. Erren, Peter Morfeld, J. Valérie Groß, Ursula Wild and Philip Lewis
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2019
14:29
Content type: CommentaryPublished on: 27 November 2019
The aim of this study is to make a comparison of a new small sized nanoparticle monitoring instrument, Nanoscan SMPS, with more traditional large size instruments, known to be precise and accurate [Scanning M...
Authors: Rikke Bramming Jørgensen
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2019
14:28
Content type: ResearchPublished on: 27 November 2019
Aflatoxins are fungal metabolites associated with contaminated food products. Intake of aflatoxin-contaminated food results in serious health hazards and even death. Therefore, the aim of this study is to eval...
Authors: Sa’ed H. Zyoud
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2019
14:27
Content type: ResearchPublished on: 21 November 2019
A depressive episode is a frequent reason for production loss due to long periods of absence at work. To maintain work ability after depression, affected employees need to implement learned coping strategies f...
Authors: Petra Maria Gaum, Franziska Brey, Thomas Kraus and Jessica Lang
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2019
14:26
Content type: ResearchPublished on: 5 November 2019
Hairdressers are exposed to various work-related biomechanical and organizational risk factors. To date, there has been no overview of the evidence for this occupational group. The purpose of this scoping revi...
Authors: Agnessa Kozak, Tanja Wirth, Miet Verhamme and Albert Nienhaus
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2019
14:24
The ubiquitous use of dental amalgam for over 180 years has resulted in the exposure of millions of dental workers to mercury. Dental amalgam contains approximately 50% mercury. Dental workers, including denti...
Authors: David Warwick, Matt Young, Joe Palmer and Robin Warwick Ermel
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2019
14:22
Long-term vibration exposure may cause neurophysiological disturbances such as numbness and tingling, reduced grip strength and difficulties in handling small objects. The dominant hand will usually have a hig...
Authors: Lars Gerhardsson and Mats Hagberg
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2019
14:21
Content type: ResearchPublished on: 15 July 2019
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Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2019
14:25
We are observing a growing trend towards the use of waste incineration in waste-to-energy (WTE) plants in Italy. Various authors started to investigate their potential health effects, but without univocal outc...
Authors: L. Coppeta, A. Pietroiusti, S. Policardo, F. Mormone, O. Balbi, E. Tursi, S. Baldi, E. Plutoni, A. Torriero and A. Magrini
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2019
14:20
Nursing staff and care workers run an increased risk of work related musculoskeletal disorders such as low back pain. The Institution for Statutory Accident Insurance and Prevention in the Health and Welfare S...
Authors: Bianca Kusma, Aki Pietsch, Helge Riepenhof, Sören Haß, Daniel Kuhn, Klaus Fischer and Albert Nienhaus
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2019
14:19
In outpatient care in Germany, medical assistants (MAs) are the contact persons for patients’ concerns and their working conditions are relevant to their own health and the provided quality of care. MAs workin...
Authors: Jessica Scharf, Patricia Vu-Eickmann, Jian Li, Andreas Müller, Stefan Wilm, Peter Angerer and Adrian Loerbroks
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2019
14:18
The aim of the present study is to assess the extent to which seafarers had been affected by severe mental stress situations and what possible psychological effects they may have.
Authors: Hans-Joachim Jensen and Marcus Oldenburg
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2019
14:17
With the current study, we aimed to determine the prevalence of back pain in employees of a German chemical company. We put a specific focus on disabling back pain and its association with sociodemographic, li...
Authors: Matthias Claus, Michael Schuster, Stefan Webendörfer, David A. Groneberg, Jacqueline Jähner and Daniel Schiffmann
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2019
14:16
Biosolubility is an important parameter in the understanding of mechanisms involved in pulmonary toxicity of fibrous materials. It can be studied in vitro using models of simulated lung fluids and observing th...
Authors: Annapaola Cannizzaro, Federica Angelosanto, Elena Barrese and Antonella Campopiano
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2019
14:15
North American and European accreditation bodies have legislated progressively more strict work hour restrictions for residents in light of evidence that sleep deprivation leads to increased medical errors and...
Authors: Sarah Sy, Karanvir Sall, Erika Dempsey, Gale Tedder and Kenneth Michael Madden
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2019
14:14
Employees on board must be highly qualified in order to be able to independently meet the different work requirements during the three voyage stages of a ship (port stay, river and sea passage). In this study,...
Authors: Marcus Oldenburg and Hans-Joachim Jensen
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2019
14:13
Firefighting is a dangerous occupation with high rates of injuries and fatalities, with the majority of line of duty fatalities due to cardiovascular events. Additionally, firefighters struggle with poor healt...
Authors: Brittany S. Hollerbach, Sara A. Jahnke, Walker S. C. Poston, Craig A. Harms and Katie M. Heinrich
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2019
14:12
Maritime welfare institutions enable crew members of ships to use different recreation facilities ashore during their work assignments aboard. This study analyses the shipcrew members’ need and their usage beh...
Authors: Marcus Oldenburg and Hans-Joachim Jensen
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2019
14:11
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus contamination on surfaces including turnout gear had been found throughout a number of fire stations. As such, the outer shell barrier of turnout gear jackets may be an...
Authors: Daniel Farcas, Francoise M. Blachere, Michael L. Kashon, Deborah Sbarra, Diane Schwegler-Berry, Jeffrey O. Stull and John D. Noti
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2019
14:10
Content type: MethodologyPublished on: 22 March 2019
Former uranium miners of the Wismut Company, East Germany, have been exposed to ionizing radiation from radon decay products and therefore were at high risk for lung cancer. Since histological types of cancer ...
Authors: Simone Helmig, Günter Lochnit and Joachim Schneider
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2019
14:9
Health care workers have an increased risk of being infected with Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), though little information is available about how prevalent (dormant) MRSA colonization is amon...
Authors: Melanie Schubert, Daniel Kämpf, Lutz Jatzwauk, Franziska Kynast, Annette Stein, Ruth Strasser, Madeleine Dulon, Albert Nienhaus and Andreas Seidler
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2019
14:7
Beginning in the first decade of the 21st centruy, there was a growing disregard for the benefits of the German medical system concerning the junior obstetricians/gynecologists (OB/GYN) job situation. As in ot...
Authors: Dörthe Brüggmann, Anja Herpe, David Quarcoo, Norman Schöffel, Eileen M. Wanke, Daniela Ohlendorf, Doris Klingelhöfer, David A. Groneberg and Stefanie Mache
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2019
14:6
Silicosis resulting from silica exposure is a global occupational disease characterized by severe pathological changes in progressive pulmonary fibrosis. Previous evidence has indicated that dysbiosis of the g...
Authors: Yao Zhou, Lv Chen, Gaofeng Sun, Ying Li and Ruixue Huang
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2019
14:5
Indications were found that a diagnostic bias could have contributed to the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) suggestion of a persistent increased mortality risk for nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC).
Authors: Matthias Möhner, Yimeng Liu and Gary M. Marsh
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2019
14:4
Content type: Short reportPublished on: 20 February 2019
A dialysis nurse’s work is complex and demanding. Based on the results of a systematic review and a survey study, we developed a health-promoting intervention for dialysis nurses. The aim of this study is to e...
Authors: Maren Kersten, Sylvie Vincent-Höper, Heidi Krampitz and Albert Nienhaus
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2019
14:3
Content type: ResearchPublished on: 11 February 2019
Occupational hazards, injuries and diseases are a major concern among police officers, including in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, there is limited locally relevant literature for guiding policy for the South Af...
Authors: Gift Gugu Mona, Moses John Chimbari and Charles Hongoro
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2019
14:2
Electronic waste (e-waste) recycling workers in low and middle-income countries have the potential for occupational injuries due to the nature of their work at informal e-waste sites. However, limited research...
Authors: Katrina N. Burns, Stephanie K. Sayler and Richard L. Neitzel
Citation:Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology
2019
14:1
Content type: ResearchPublished on: 10 January 2019