Occupational Health & Disease

Impacts of di-n-butyl phthalate (DBP) exposure on the health of workers in the rubber processing industry: A warning from epidemiological research in the Central region

Monday, 11/08/2025, 03:28(GMT +7)
In the rubber processing industry, di-n-butyl phthalate (DBP) is a compound commonly used as a plasticizer, contributing to the flexibility of products. However, few people know that DBP is a substance that can negatively affect...

Occupational safety and health in some enterprises in Viet Nam – Experience and solutions

Occupational Safety, 25/12/2023, 02:27
In recent years, the work of occupational safety and health (OSH) in Vietnam has experienced many ups and downs. Thanks to economic development achievements, OSH activities have been paid more...

Building and developing Safety Culture in production in Vietnam

OSH Policy, 02/12/2023, 10:19
1. Preface Building and developing Safety Culture in production is inevitable tendency and necessary of all countries in the world including Vietnam in order to meet the occupational safety and...

From the surface to the underlying meaning-an analysis of senior managers’ safety culture perceptions

OSH Policy, 02/12/2023, 10:19
Senior managers can influence safety culture and it is therefore important to understand how they think about this aspect of their organisation. Examining senior managers’ interpretations of safety culture (via...

Identification of occupational safety and health research priorities will help Europe reach its 2020 goals

OSH Policy, 02/12/2023, 10:19
The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) has identified key priority areas for occupational safety and health (OSH) research that will help Europe reach its 2020 goals....

Essential Occupational Safety and Health Interventions for Low- and Middle-income Countries: An Overview of the Evidence

OSH Policy, 02/12/2023, 10:19
Jos Verbeek1, Ivan Ivanov2 (1) FIOH, Cochrane Occupational Safety and Health Review Group, Kuopio, Finland (2) Interventions for Healthy Environments, Department of Public Health and Environment, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland Abstract ...

Working to rule or working safely? Part 2: The management of safety rules and procedures

OSH Policy, 02/12/2023, 10:19
Andrew Halea, b, David Borysc Abstract Part 1, the companion paper to this paper (Hale and Borys, this issue) reviews the literature from 1986 on the management of those safety...

Working to rule, or working safely? Part 1: A state of the art review

OSH Policy, 02/12/2023, 10:19
Andrew Halea, b, David Borysc Abstract The paper reviews the literature from 1986 on the management of those safety rules and procedures which relate to the workplace level in organisations....

The effects of the enforcement legislation in the Finnish occupational safety and health inspectorate

OSH Policy, 02/12/2023, 10:19
Toivo Niskanen Abstract The goals of this quantitative and qualitative study were to explore the four following questions:  (1) what kinds of views do OSH inspectors have on the application...

Understanding safety in the context of business operations: An exploratory study using case studies

OSH Policy, 02/12/2023, 10:19
Anthony Veltria, Mark Pagellb, David Johnstonc, Emile Tompad, Lynda Robsond, Benjamin C, Amick IIId,  Sheilah Hogg-Johnsond,    Sara Macdonaldd Abstract This exploratory research employs a series of cases studies and a...