Work Environment

A mixed-methods evaluation of health and safety hazards at a scrap metal recycling facility

Saturday, 02/12/2023, 10:04(GMT +7)
Richard L. Neitzel a,*,  Allison Crollardb, Carlos Dominguez b, Bert Stover b, Noah S. Seixas b Abstract Little work has been done to assess hazardous exposures among scrap metal recycling workers. This study evaluated safety...

Working conditions at recycling centres in Sweden – Physical and psychosocial work environment

Work Environment, 02/12/2023, 10:04
Inga-Lill Engkvist Abstract The number of jobs at recycling centres are increasing, at the same time as there are indications of work environment problems. The aim of this paper was...

Changes in hospital nurse work environments and nurse job outcomes: An analysis of panel data

Work Environment, 02/12/2023, 10:04
Ann Kutney-Lee, Evan S. Wu, Douglas M. Sloane, Linda H. Aiken Abstract  Background One strategy proposed to alleviate nursing shortages is the promotion of organizational efforts that will improve nurse...

New trends in work environment – New effects on safety

Work Environment, 02/12/2023, 10:04
Theoni Koukoulaki Abstract Europe has been subject to tremendous changes in terms of flexibility of work and labour in response to macro trends like globalisation and the resulting fierce market...

Occupational and public health and safety in a changing work environment: An integrated approach for risk assessment and prevention

Work Environment, 02/12/2023, 10:04
Gerasimos Papadopoulos, Paraskevi Georgiadou, Christos Papazoglou, Katerina Michaliou Abstract During recent years the work environment has undergone significant changes regarding working time, years of employment, work organization, type of employment...

Coping styles relate to health and work environment of Norwegian and Dutch hospital nurses: A comparative study

Work Environment, 02/12/2023, 10:04
Jolanda A.H. Schreuder, Corné A.M. Roelen, Johan W. Groothoff, Jac J.L. van der Klink, Nils Magerøy, Ståle Pallesen, Bjørn Bjorvatn, Bente E. Moen Abstract Nurses exposed to high nursing stress...

Assessing motivation for work environment improvements: Internal consistency, reliability and factorial structure

Work Environment, 02/12/2023, 10:04
Ann Hedlund, Mattias Åteg, Ing-Marie Andersson, Gunnar Rosén Problem: Workers’ motivation to actively take part in improvements to the work environment is assumed to be important for the efficiency of...

Industrial Noise and Its Effects on Humans

Work Environment, 02/12/2023, 10:04
The problem of noise in the industries around Sivas has been examined in this study; and noise measurement and survey studies have been carried out at concrete traverse, cement, iron...

Investigation and assessment of working environment, in some heavily populated industries of Northern Provinces, Vietnam

Work Environment, 02/12/2023, 10:04
Assoc. Prof. Le Van Trinh MSc. Nguyen Trinh Huong BE. Le Thi Hang and Colleagues (National Institute of Labour Protection)   ABSTRACT Study is carried out in frame of the...

Fanger’s predicted-mean-vote index and neutral temperature used in Vietnamese condition

Work Environment, 02/12/2023, 10:04
PhD. Nguyen Van Muon (Hanoi Architectural University) ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to describe existing PMV model and neutral temperature concerned with thermal comfort. The PMV model was...