Objectives Understanding healthy working life expectancy (HWLE) is critical in ageing societies to promote both extended workforce participation and well-being. This study quantifies WLE and HWLE ...

Objectives Occupational suicides are an emerging issue in occupational epidemiology. Risk factors like economic sectors, professions and types of contracts are not well-investigated, particularly in ...

Objectives Compared with silicosis, there has been less research on other respiratory diseases in stone benchtop industry workers. Therefore, we explored respiratory symptoms, airflow obstruction and ...

Objectives To prospectively determine the association between occupational biomechanical exposures and the incidence of surgically treated carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) in Swedish male construction ...

Background: Although crystalline silica exposure is associated with silicosis, lung cancer, pulmonary tuberculosis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), there is less support for an ...

Employees in different types of work may be intentionally or accidentally exposed to biological agents. Improved risk assessment is needed to identify opportunities to prevent work-related infectious ...

Objectives Pneumoconiosis remains a major global occupational health hazard and illness. Accurate data on the incidence of pneumoconiosis are critical for health resource planning and development of ...

Human donors used in dental, allopathic and osteopathic medical, physical therapy, veterinary and other healthcare-related education programs are preserved using formalin, an aqueous solution of 37% ...

Introduction Petroleum extraction and refining are major sources of various occupational carcinogens and of air pollution and may therefore contribute to the global cancer burden. Objective The ...

Objective The objective of our study was to examine whether occupational exposure to benzene is associated with lung cancer among males in the Norwegian Offshore Petroleum Workers cohort. Methods ...