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  • Morbidity And Mortality Related To OSAS

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    It has long been suggested that OSAS is associated with a significant morbidity and mortality and that it presents a major public health burden. Excessive daytime sleepiness is the most common daytime symptom of OSAS and leads to a variety of potentially serious sequelae. Patients with OSAS have significantly impaired quality of life and social…

  • Approaches To Studying And Obtaining Information On Work-Related Injury And/Or Disease

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    Most of the studies of work-related fatal injury are essentially cohort studies of the population of interest, with the population being all working persons or subgroups of the population identified by characteristics such as occupation, industry, age, or sex. However, other approaches have been used (e.g., case-control studies, capture-recapture studies, and proportional mortality studies) or…

  • Common Characteristics Of Work-Related Fatal Injuries And Diseases

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    Work-Related Injury And Disease Deaths In Various Countries Injury Work-related fatal injury is a high-profile issue in many countries, both developed and developing. Overall estimates from studies have been produced for various countries, including Australia, Denmark, Finland, Jordan, New Zealand, and the United States. Most of these studies counted the number of injury deaths using…

  • Occupational Death and Injury Rates Research Paper

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      Introduction Work-related injury and disease, whether fatal or nonfatal, is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in all countries of the world. Most aspects of society are affected, as the injury or illness impacts not just on the injured or sick person, but also on their family, friends, and workmates. Tragically, most work-related…

  • Extent Of Problem – Why Workplace Violence Is A Public Health Issue

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      WPV is a significant public health issue due to the large number of workplace physical assaults, homicides, and lost work time. Millions of workers are injured each year during workplace assaults. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in the United States in 2002 there were 18 104 lost work days due to…

  • Occupational Versus Nonoccupational Injuries

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    Many injury causes that are common in the workplace are also common in other environments. Transportation events, violence, falls, and being struck by objects are examples of injury causes that are common in multiple settings. Others are more common to the workplace, such as machinery, electrocutions, and explosions. Strategies for reducing and preventing injuries in…

  • Outcome: Illness From Intermittent, Short-Duration, High-Level Chemical Exposures

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    Fatalities associated with confined space entry dominate the documented instances of adverse health effects that result from short-duration, high-level chemical exposures in the manufacturing industry. We still do not have an accurate measure of the probability of less acute illnesses that arise from lower-level or repeated incidents that do not result in fatality or emergency…

  • An Example Of Application Of The Matrix Approach: Manufacturing Sector

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    he Matrix Approach To Recognizing And Controlling Safety And Health Hazards Relative risks of disabling occupational injury, stratified by occupational classification, are shown in Table 2. The rate of disabling injuries among material-moving workers is more than 20 times that of executives. Production workers, like assemblers and machine operators, suffer more than 10 times the…

  • Generalized Elements Of A Workplace Health And Safety Management Program

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    The quality movement and other advances in the management and prevention of occupational safety and health risks made it clear that a comprehensive safety and health management system for abating workplace hazards and improving protections was needed. In addition to the expansion of the conceptual framework underlying accidents from unsafe workers to more realistic systems…

  • Analyzing Occupational Injury And Illnesses By Categories

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    To devise methods of reducing the burden of illness and injury arising from employment and the work environment, it is essential to analyze patterns of disease outcomes in ways that reflect the mechanisms by which the injury or illness may have occurred. The three most useful broad categories are industry classification, occupational group, and health…