Review of carcinogenicity of hexavalent chrome and proposal of revising approval standards for an occupational cancers in Korea by Jungwon Kim, Sangyun Seo, Yangho Kim, Dae Hwan Kim

“…Methods In this study, the reports published by major international institutions such as World Health Organization (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) (2012), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) (2006), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) (2013), American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) (2004), National Toxicology Program (NTP) (2014), and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ASTDR) (2012) were reviewed and the recent research works searched by PubMed were summarized. …”
Get full text

Negotiated environmental and occupational health and safety agreements in the United States: lessons for policy by Ashford, Nicholas A., Caldart, Charles C.

“…The proposed paper describes and analyses negotiated agreements in the United States in the context of (1) EPA efforts to ensure environmental protection and (2) the Occupational Safety and Health Administration efforts to ensure worker health and safety. …”
Get full text

Negotiated environmental and occupational health and safety agreements in the United States: lessons for policy by Ashford, Nicholas A., Caldart, Charles C.

“…The proposed paper describes and analyses negotiated agreements in the United States in the context of (1) EPA efforts to ensure environmental protection and (2) the Occupational Safety and Health Administration efforts to ensure worker health and safety. …”
Get full text

Determination of baseline data on respirable dust concentration for safety and health enhancement in selected small and medium industries in Johor by Paiman, Nuur Azreen

“…The result of the study showed most of the workers in paper based mill were exposed to respirable dust when the Time Weightage Average (TWA) result was above the permissible exposure limit which is 5 mg/m3 and 3 mg/m3 from Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) standard respectively. …”
Get full text
Get full text

The impact of safety culture towards safety performance with mediator of ISO9001 and OSH Administration by Ali Memon, Danish

“…Therefore, this study aims to examine ISO9001 and occupational safety and health administration as a mediator between safety culture (SC) and safety performance (SP) in manufacturing industries in Johor, Malaysia. …”
Get full text
Get full text
Get full text

The “double eights mask brace” improves the fit and protection of a basic surgical mask amidst COVID‐19 pandemic by Daniel P. Runde, Karisa K. Harland, Paul Van Heukelom, Brett Faine, Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Nicholas M. Mohr

“…The primary outcome measure was whether the subject passed the quantitative fit test at or above the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)‐verified standard for N95 masks. …”
Get full text

UV-Light-Tunable p-/n-Type Chemiresistive Gas Sensors Based on Quasi-1D TiS₃ Nanoribbons: Detection of Isopropanol at ppm Concentrations by Victor V. Sysoev, Andrey V. Lashkov, Alexey Lipatov, Ilya A. Plugin, Michael Bruns, Dirk Fuchs, Alexey S. Varezhnikov, Mustahsin Adib, Martin Sommer, Alexander Sinitskii

“…These sensors were exposed to isopropanol as a model analyte, which was mixed with air at low concentrations of 1–100 ppm that are below the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) permissible exposure limit. …”
Get full text

Contextualizing injury severity from occupational accident reports using an optimized deep learning prediction model by Mohamed Zul Fadhli Khairuddin, Suresh Sankaranarayanan, Khairunnisa Hasikin, Nasrul Anuar Abd Razak, Rosidah Omar

“…Methods Natural language processing (NLP) techniques were harnessed to preprocess the occupational injury narratives obtained from the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) from January 2015 to June 2023. …”
Get full text

Statistical estimation of noise induced hearing loss among the drivers in one of the most polluted cities of India by Manish Kumar Manar, Shivendra Kumar Singh, Prashant Kumar Bajpai, Veerendra Verma, Sheo Prasad Shukla, Neeraj Kumar Singh, Markandeya

“…The regression analysis has been done keeping hearing loss among tempo drivers as the dependent variable and age (years) and Energy (Pa2 Hrs) as the independent variable using three different criteria of hearing loss definitions, i.e., World Health Organization, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Occupational Safety and Health Administration criteria. Among these three criteria, the NIOSH criterion of hearing loss best explained the independent variables. …”
Get full text

Enhancing respiratory protection in skilled nursing facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic: A public health fit-test training program by Jenna Scully, Mariah Menanno, Jane Gould, Tiina Peritz

“…Background: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Respiratory Protection standard (29 CFR 1910.134) states that it is an employer’s responsibility to establish and maintain a respiratory protection program when a respirator is necessary to protect the health of employees, including annual assessment of adequate respirator fit. …”
Get full text

Attitude, practices and experience of dental professionals during COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional survey from Gujarat, India by Aalap Sureshkumar Prajapati, Poonam Rahul Kulkarni, Harsh G Shah, Dhaval Bharat Shah, Vasudha Sodani, Paras Doshi

“…Introduction: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a declared public health emergency of international concern. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) classified health-care professionals and exposure risk to coronavirus (COVID-19), identifying dental professionals in the very high-risk group due to the specificity of dental procedures and instrumentations used. …”
Get full text

Improvement in Fitted Filtration Efficiency of N95 Respirators With Escalating Instruction of the Wearer by Hao Chen, PhD, Edward R. Pennington, PhD, Martin W. Case, BS, Haiyan Tong, MD, PhD, Ana G. Rappold, PhD, James M. Samet, PhD, MPH, Steven E. Prince, PhD

“…Methods: Using a modified Occupational Safety and Health Administration fit test protocol, we measured fitted filtration efficiency for an N95 respirator in 21 screened, healthy participants given 4 levels of escalating instruction: (1) uninstructed (baseline), (2) written/pictorial manufacturer instructions, (3) step-by-step video demonstration, and (4) staff instruction (visual inspection of respirator fit and verbal suggestions to adjust when applicable). …”
Get full text

Employee investigation and contact tracing program in a pediatric cancer hospital to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 among the workforce, patients, and caregivers by Diego R. Hijano, Diego R. Hijano, Sandra R. Dennis, James M. Hoffman, Li Tang, Randall T. Hayden, St. Jude COVID-19 Case Investigation and Contact Tracing Team, Aditya H. Gaur, Hana Hakim, Hana Hakim

“…The CDC urged rapid action to scale up and train a large workforce and collaborate across public and private agencies to halt COVID-19 transmission.MethodsWe developed a program for case investigation and contact tracing that followed CDC and local health guidelines, compliant with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations and tailored to the needs and resources of our institution. …”
Get full text

Injection Molded Autoclavable, Scalable, Conformable (iMASC) system for aerosol-based protection: a prospective single-arm feasibility study by Byrne, James D, Wentworth, Adam J, Chai, Peter R, Huang, Hen Wei, Babaee, Sahab, Li, Canchen, Becker, Sarah L, Tov, Caitlynn, Min, Seokkee, Traverso, Giovanni

“…Primary and secondary outcome measures: Primary outcome is success of fit testing using an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)-approved testing method, and secondary outcomes are user experience with fit, breathability and filter replacement. …”
Get full text

Knowledge and Practice of Personal Protective Equipment among Students of Different Healthcare Specialties during COVID-19 Pandemic by Siraj DAA Khan, Musleh Al-Garni, Abdullrahman Saeed Hadi Alalharith, Mohammad Dafer Alalharith, Obaid Saleh Obai, SALEH SAEED AL BAALTAHIN, Mohammad Abdulkareem Alnaji

“…The majority of the participants (52%) did not know the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) guideline and 55.9% were not aware of donning and doffing. …”
Get full text

Evolution of beryllium safety standards over the last 70 years and challenges ahead by Munish Kumar, Alok Srivastava

“…The OEL/TLV of 2.0 μg/m3 continued for nearly 70 years until Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) in 2017 reduced the Be air concentration (BeAir-Conc) limit for occupational workers to 0.20 μg/m3 as the value of 2.00 μg/m3 was inadequate to protect occupational workers from CBD. …”
Get full text

Análisis del ajuste de mascarillas autofiltrantes en combinación con las mascarillas quirúrgicas para la protección del profesional sanitario en su atención a pacientes afectos de... by Raquel García Vela, Rosa Cabanas Valdés, Santos Huertas Ríos, Rafel Donat Roca, Pol Monné Cuevas, Luciana Moizé Arcone, Jordi Calvo Sanz

“…Material y Métodos: Se utilizó el equipo medidor de ajuste de mascarillas FFP modelo PortaCount® Pro + 8038 compatible con las normas y metodología de la OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) de los EEUU. Se realizaron series de pruebas de ajuste sobre diferentes modelos de mascarillas autofiltrantes FFP2 con y sin mascarilla quirúrgica para diferentes situaciones de respiración del trabajador participante en este experimento.  …”
Get full text

Examining the utility of near infrared light as pre-exposure therapy to mitigate temporary noise-induced hearing loss in humans by Erin Williams, Erin Williams, Erin Williams, Kayla Minesinger, Kayla Minesinger, Hilary Gallagher, J. R. Stefanson, Nathaniel Bridges, Natalie Jackson, Valerie Stark, Jennifer Coto, Suhrud Rajguru, Suhrud Rajguru, Kurt Yankaskas, Rick Rogers, Michael E. Hoffer, Michael E. Hoffer

“…IntroductionThis study sought to determine the effect of Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) compliant noise on auditory health and assess whether pre-noise near infrared (NIR) light therapy can mitigate the effects of noise exposure.MethodsOver four visits, participants (n = 30, NCT#: 03834714) with normal hearing completed baseline hearing health assessments followed by exposure to open ear, continuous pink noise at 94 dBA for 15 min. …”
Get full text

Return to Work in COVID-19: Review of Current Guidelines by Ehsan Rafeemanesh, Farzaneh Rahimpour, Fatemeh Ahmadi

“…Furthermore, other relevant websites were also scrutinized including Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), National Health Service (NHS) and Iran Ministry of Health and Medical Education guidelines. …”
Get full text

Violence Against Healthcare Workers by Regina Hoffman

“…Key takeaways included: specific unit-level data was provided to each intervention group; unitlevel action planning reflected guidelines from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (CDC, NIOSH); and, while the incidence rate of events and injuries did not show a decrease from baseline in the intervention group, the control group did show a significant increase in incidence rate of post-intervention events and injuries.11 While this study makes an important contribution to the field, more research must be done. …”
Get full text