Edited by Dean Baker, Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen. Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008 pp 398. £34.95 (paperback). 978-0-19-852792-3 As a young scientist working and pursuing a PhD in the ...

OEM publishes research and comment on workplace chemical, physical, ergonomic, biological and psychosocial hazards & health effects of environmental contaminants.

Objectives This is the first study to use real-life electronic medical record data from occupational health (OH) primary care to evaluate how often physicians assess and confirm diagnoses’ work ...

Objectives Retrospective exposure assessment remains a problematic aspect of population-based case–control studies. Different methods have been developed, including case-by-case expert assessment and ...

Objectives The manual coding of job descriptions is time-consuming, expensive and requires expert knowledge. Decision support systems (DSS) provide a valuable alternative by offering automated ...

Objectives Person-related work requires workers to interact with individuals not employed at the workplace, such as clients and patients, and can cause emotional labour and conflict. These stressors ...

Economic downturns are, unfortunately, a recurring feature of public life. Whether driven by inflationary shocks, fiscal consolidation, political ideology or post-crisis recalibration, austerity ...

Objectives Studies on accelerometer-measured daily physical activity behaviour, especially among hybrid and remote workers, are scarce. We compared daily occupational and non-occupational physical ...