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Psychosocial risks in the healthcare and long-term care …

WEB4 Report 2022.04 Abstract Work-related psychosocial risks (PSR) are a major contributor to the burden of disease in Europe. The stress mediated health impacts of PSR are evident

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Musculoskeletal disorders etui

WEBThe Community’s duty to protect workers from musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) is currently discharged through various general requirements under the 1989 Framework Directive on the health and safety of workers and a series of individual directives (on the workplace, work equipment, manual handling of loads, work with …

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Heatwaves as an occupational hazard etui

WEBHeatwaves as an occupational hazard The impact of heat and heatwaves on workers’ health, safety and wellbeing and on social inequalities-2021.pdf. Weather-related heat exposure has become a sanitary concern given the wide repercussions it has for health. Both physiological and epidemiological research show that the impact of heat on human

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State of the evidence 2017: an update on the connection …

WEBREVIEW Open Access State of the evidence 2017: an update on the connection between breast cancer and the environment Janet M. Gray1*, Sharima Rasanayagam2, Connie Engel2 and Jeanne Rizzo2 Abstract Background: In this review, we examine the continually expanding and increasingly compelling data linking

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Gender, working conditions and health etui

WEBOccupational health policies and prevention practices also continue to be built on a model of gender neutrality of "workers" whose implicit referent is the male worker. This is why it is useful to analyse the obstacles and resistances to taking into account the gender dimension in occupational health, to produce data and studies to enrich

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Psychosocial risks in the healthcare and long-term care sectors

WEBWork-related psychosocial risks (PSR) are a major contributor to the burden of disease in Europe. The stress mediated health impacts of PSR are evident in the healthcare and long-term care (LTC) sectors and were brought to everyone’s line of sight by the Covid-19 pandemic. While the effects of these risks manifest at the individual level as physical …

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Work and family: "double workload” overburdens women's health

WEBThese results are explained by the low involvement of men in domestic work and as the ability of employed women from the more affluent social classes to hire resources in order to lighten their domestic burden, thereby averting the negative effects of a heavy workload on their health. Consistently, another study reported that while among men

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The connection between occupational safety and health and …

WEBIt is here that the Covid-19 pandemic has been a wake-up call, for it has become clear beyond any doubt that work is a key vector in the spreading of the virus, with

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OSH recognized as ILO fundamental principle and right etui

WEBOccupational Safety and Health becomes the fifth category of Fundamental Principles and Rights at work, completing the existing four categories: freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining, the elimination of forced or compulsory labour, the abolition of child labour and the elimination of

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Occupational safety and health in 2040 Four scenarios

WEBOccupational safety and health in 2040 Four scenarios

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QD85: Burn-out classified as an occupational phenomenon etui

WEBMeeting in Geneva on 20-27 May 2019 for its 72nd session, the World Health Organisation's (WHO) World Assembly has taken a landmark decision. Referring to the conclusions of health experts, it has declared burn-out to be an “occupational phenomenon”, opening the door to having it classified in the WHO's International …

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Violence and harassment in the year of the nurse etui

WEBIn Taiwan, 56 % of nurses in acute psychiatric settings reported physical violence, and 82 % psychological violence. In Turkey, 60 % of nurses have been exposed to verbal and/or physical violence from patients, visitors or other health workers. In the EU, the health sector ranks highest among all sectors with regard to exposure to violence and

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Heatwaves as an occupational hazard

WEBHeatwaves as an occupational hazard Report 2021.06 5 Introduction Heat is a well-known occupational hazard, traditionally found in jobs in industries and in manufacturing which generate heat, in activities taking place

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Laurent Vogel etui

WEBLaurent has a degree in law from the Free University of Brussels. He gained a doctorate at the University of Nantes after completing a thesis on the role of Community law in the harmonisation of occupational health legislation in Europe. He teaches occupational health law at the Free University of Brussels and the University Paris XIII. After spending …

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Support for occupational medicine in the Czech Republic is six

WEBThe Czech Republic has the longest-established tradition of occupational health in Eastern Europe. The beginnings of health care for workers can be traced to the development of the ore-mining industry. Occupational medicine as a special branch began to develop in the 1930s and flourished in the communist era.

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Working conditions in construction: a paradoxical invisibility

WEBOnly around 20% of manual workers in construction are aged 50 or over. For more than half of them, their work is adversely affecting their health. The most common complaints are back pain (three out of four workers aged 50 or over), excessive work rates (over 60% of complaints) and awkward working positions (nearly 60%).

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Chapter 16 Occupational exposure limits: uses and limitations …

WEB164 Cancer and work. Understanding occupational cancers and taking action to eliminate them 1. Health-based and risk-based exposure limits The definition of OELs set out in the introduction to this article implies that it is possible,

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