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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,245 Views
14 Pages

25 November 2024

This study aimed to identify the relationship between the safety leadership of safety and health managers, the safety climate of the organization, and the safety behavior of workers in the electronics industry in order to develop a sustainable indust...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,128 Views
20 Pages

What about Using Photovoice for Health and Safety?

  • Paul Lindhout,
  • Truus Teunissen and
  • Genserik Reniers

The positive reception of Wang and Burris’ photovoice method, published in 1997, has led to a proliferation of ways in which professionals deploy photovoice in a widening range of application fields, e.g., public health, social development and phenom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,636 Views
14 Pages

Total Worker Health Leadership and Business Strategies Are Related to Safety and Health Climates in Small Business

  • Natalie V. Schwatka,
  • Miranda Dally,
  • Liliana Tenney,
  • Erin Shore,
  • Carol E. Brown and
  • Lee S. Newman

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between Total Worker Health® (TWH) business strategies and employee perceptions of leadership commitment and safety and health climates. Using data from 53 small enterprises and 1271 of th...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,210 Views
4 Pages

The inter-relationship between safety, health and the ‘environment’ is a complex and at times a relatively neglected topic. In this issue, ‘safety’ is often viewed by contributors as ‘health and safety’ and includes occupationally‐related ill health...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,779 Views
17 Pages

An Approach to Health and Safety Assessment in Industrial Parks

  • Fco. Javier García-Gómez,
  • Cristina González-Gaya and
  • Víctor Fco. Rosales-Prieto

Safety is a fundamental aspect to take into account in the design, construction and operation of industrial parks. Therefore, it is important to know how to deal with safety in this type of facility, and how to deal with risk analysis. This document...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
41 Citations
8,719 Views
13 Pages

Health Equity and a Paradigm Shift in Occupational Safety and Health

  • Michael A. Flynn,
  • Pietra Check,
  • Andrea L. Steege,
  • Jacqueline M. Sivén and
  • Laura N. Syron

Despite significant improvements in occupational safety and health (OSH) over the past 50 years, there remain persistent inequities in the burden of injuries and illnesses. In this commentary, the authors assert that addressing these inequities, alon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,929 Views
11 Pages

Agricultural Health and Safety Survey in Friuli Venezia Giulia

  • Sirio Rossano Secondo Cividino,
  • Gianfranco Pergher,
  • Nicola Zucchiatti and
  • Rino Gubiani

The work in the agricultural sector has taken on a fundamental role in the last decades, due to the still too high rate of fatal injuries, workplace accidents, and dangerous occurrences reported each year. The average old age of agricultural machiner...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,568 Views
16 Pages

30 January 2025

Background/Objectives: The health sector is one of the most important sectors, and occupational accidents and occupational diseases that health workers are exposed to are more important compared to those in other sectors. Especially, the increase in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,937 Views
13 Pages

14 November 2024

The study examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on occupational safety and health (OSH) experts in Latvia, focusing on their work demands, evolving responsibilities, and the broader implications for sustainable workforce management. Through fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,726 Views
23 Pages

7 February 2023

Fatalities, injuries, and illnesses continue to occur in the construction industry (CI), despite efforts made by clients, designers, and contractors. The lack of collaboration between these project actors and construction health and safety agents (CH...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,744 Views
22 Pages

Four Futures for Occupational Safety and Health

  • Sarah A. Felknor,
  • Jessica M. K. Streit,
  • Nicole T. Edwards and
  • John Howard

Rapid changes to the nature of work have challenged the capacity of existing occupational safety and health (OSH) systems to ensure safe and productive workplaces. An effective response will require an expanded focus that includes new tools for antic...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,099 Views
53 Pages

Analysis of Cognitive Biases in Construction Health and Safety in New Zealand

  • Mahesh Babu Purushothaman,
  • Pricilia Jessica and
  • Funmilayo Ebun Rotimi

24 March 2025

The construction industry’s complexity and high-risk nature present significant decision-making challenges, often resulting in errors that jeopardise health and safety performance. Cognitive biases can further distort risk assessments and influ...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,246 Views
24 Pages

Exoskeletons: Contribution to Occupational Health and Safety

  • Omar Flor-Unda,
  • Bregith Casa,
  • Mauricio Fuentes,
  • Santiago Solorzano,
  • Fabián Narvaez-Espinoza and
  • Patricia Acosta-Vargas

This review aims to characterize the current landscape of exoskeletons designed to promote medical care and occupational safety in industrial settings. Extensive exploration of scientific databases spanning industries, health, and medicine informs th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,064 Views
21 Pages

This paper explores occupational safety and health regulation in Great Britain following the UK’s exit from the European Union. In particular, the paper focuses on the credibility of regulatory enforcement. The prospects raised by the UK’...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
1,845 Views
7 Pages

Health care professionals' skills regarding patient safety

  • Indrė Brasaitė,
  • Marja Kaunonen,
  • Arvydas Martinkėnas,
  • Vida Mockienė and
  • Tarja Suominen

30 June 2016

Background and objective: The importance of patient safety is growing worldwide, and every day, health care professionals face various challenges in how to provide safe care for their patients. Patient safety skills are one of the main tools to ensur...

  • Review
  • Open Access
108 Citations
13,977 Views
19 Pages

Total Worker Health® 2014–2018: The Novel Approach to Worker Safety, Health, and Well-Being Evolves

  • Sara L. Tamers,
  • L. Casey Chosewood,
  • Adele Childress,
  • Heidi Hudson,
  • Jeannie Nigam and
  • Chia-Chia Chang

Background: The objective of this article is to provide an overview of and update on the Office for Total Worker Health® (TWH) program of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,086 Views
13 Pages

27 January 2021

The construction industry has experienced a lot of occupational accidents, and construction work is considered one of the most dangerous occupations. In order to reduce the number of occupational injuries from construction, the South Korean governmen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,838 Views
19 Pages

27 August 2022

Knowledge management in construction health and safety is an intensive process involving different stakeholders. However, this domain’s information is still fragmented and stored in various disordered formats that require systematic structure f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,464 Views
22 Pages

Occupational Health and Safety Management System of a South African University Setting

  • Ntombenhle Mtikitiki,
  • Benett Siyabonga Madonsela,
  • Thabang Maphanga,
  • Karabo Shale,
  • Xolisiwe Sinalo Grangxabe and
  • Tshidi Mokgatsane Baloyi

10 April 2025

The quality of education is significantly influenced by occupational health and safety (OHS) measures. To this end, a safety incident at a university could have far-reaching negative effects on facilitating teaching and learning for both lecturers an...

  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
10,828 Views
29 Pages

Advances in Fermentation Technology: A Focus on Health and Safety

  • Theoneste Niyigaba,
  • Kübra Küçükgöz,
  • Danuta Kołożyn-Krajewska,
  • Tomasz Królikowski and
  • Monika Trząskowska

10 March 2025

Fermentation represents a pivotal bioconversion process that enhances foodstuffs’ nutritional and sensory attributes while playing a crucial role in global food systems. Nevertheless, concerns about safety issues associated with microbial conta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,509 Views
15 Pages

Successful implementation of Health and Safety (H&S) systems requires an effective mechanism to assess risk. Existing methods focus primarily on measuring the safety aspect; the risk of an accident is determined based on the product of severity o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,289 Views
14 Pages

Evaluation of Self-Reported Agricultural Tasks, Safety Concerns, and Health and Safety Behaviors of Young Adults in U.S. Collegiate Agricultural Programs

  • Jenna L. Gibbs,
  • Kayla Walls,
  • Carolyn E. Sheridan,
  • David Sullivan,
  • Marsha Cheyney,
  • Brandi Janssen and
  • Diane S. Rohlman

3 June 2021

Young adults enrolled in collegiate agricultural programs are a critical audience for agricultural health and safety training. Understanding the farm tasks that young adults engage in is necessary for tailoring health and safety education. The projec...

  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
12,135 Views
21 Pages

Operations in general industry, including manufacturing, expose employees to a myriad of occupational health hazards. To prevent exposure, occupational health and safety regulations were enacted, with both employers and workers instituting various ri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,622 Views
18 Pages

Health and Safety Reps in COVID-19—Representation Unleashed?

  • Sian Moore,
  • Minjie Cai,
  • Chris Ball and
  • Matt Flynn

The paper explores the role of UK union health and safety representatives and changes to representative structures governing workplace and organisational Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) during COVID-19. It draws upon a survey of 648 UK Trade Uni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,849 Views
18 Pages

This study explored the perspectives of new immigrant workers regarding occupational health and safety and workplace conditions that increase workers’ vulnerability to sustaining injury or illness. Using an interpretive research approach and semi-str...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,458 Views
20 Pages

Factors that Sustain Health and Safety Management Practices in the Food Industry

  • Hazrat Hassan,
  • Qianwei Ying,
  • Habib Ahmad and
  • Sana Ilyas

24 July 2019

Due to the significant change in business organizations, scholarly interest has diverted from studying the determinants of financial performance to understanding the environmental activities, sustainability practices, and health and safety management...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
16,454 Views
12 Pages

The Development Trend of the Occupational Health and Safety in the Context of ISO 45001:2018

  • Marek Šolc,
  • Peter Blaško,
  • Lenka Girmanová and
  • Juraj Kliment

2 July 2022

The main task of safety and health at work is to protect the most important thing we have, the health of each of us. Employers are able to anticipate and prevent risks by properly implemented occupational safety and health management systems. The bas...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,986 Views
19 Pages

Dissemination and Implementation Science Approaches for Occupational Safety and Health Research: Implications for Advancing Total Worker Health

  • Rebecca J. Guerin,
  • Samantha M. Harden,
  • Borsika A. Rabin,
  • Diane S. Rohlman,
  • Thomas R. Cunningham,
  • Megan R. TePoel,
  • Megan Parish and
  • Russell E. Glasgow

Total Worker Health® (TWH), an initiative of the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, is defined as policies, programs, and practices that integrate protection from work-related health and safety hazards by promoting efforts th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,761 Views
12 Pages

Ensuring Food Safety for Americans: The Role of Local Health Departments

  • Gulzar H. Shah,
  • Padmini Shankar,
  • Vinoth Sittaramane,
  • Elizabeth Ayangunna and
  • Evans Afriyie-Gyawu

(1) Background: Several agencies in the United States play a primary role in ensuring food safety, yet foodborne illnesses result in about 3000 deaths and cost more than USD 15.6 billion each year. The study objectives included analyzing local health...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,692 Views
6 Pages

9 November 2020

Olive fruit exerts great socioeconomic impact. Many studies have shown the multiple benefits of healthy olive oil for the human body. The increase in consumption of extra virgin olive oil is mainly due to its unique sensory, nutritive qualities, biol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,725 Views
13 Pages

Health and Safety Proposal to Reduce Risks in the Construction of a School

  • Percy Junior Castro Mejía,
  • Clinton Sumner Campos Coronel,
  • Luis Eduardo Ancajima Gaona,
  • Jeanpierre Fernando Delgado Ventura,
  • Dimas Hugo Flores Montero and
  • Walter Enrrique Huilca Alcántara

24 October 2023

The purpose of this research was to propose safety measures and enhance worker health in building construction to minimize risks. The methodology followed a basic approach with a non-experimental, cross-sectional, and correlational design at a quanti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,016 Views
20 Pages

Safety Climate Evaluation in Primary Health Care: A Cross-Sectional Study

  • Marlene Manuela Moreira Ferreira,
  • Andreia Sofia Costa Teixeira and
  • Tiago Salgado de Magalhães Taveira-Gomes

The perception of the existence of deficits in patient safety, the associated costs and the limitation of resources have made it essential to define improvement strategies. Important concepts have emerged, such as safety climate, which evaluates the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,608 Views
21 Pages

Exploring Technology Integration in Health and Safety Routines in a Shanghai Kindergarten

  • Wenwei Luo,
  • Xiaoyu Wu,
  • Ilene R. Berson,
  • Michael J. Berson,
  • Huihua He and
  • Minqi Gao

22 January 2025

Background: Digital technology is increasingly being used in early childhood education; however, there is a significant gap in understanding how these technologies are practiced in health and safety routines. Objective: This study aims to understand...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
16,918 Views
22 Pages

Innovative Technologies for Occupational Health and Safety: A Scoping Review

  • Omar Flor-Unda,
  • Mauricio Fuentes,
  • Daniel Dávila,
  • Mario Rivera,
  • Gladys Llano,
  • Carlos Izurieta and
  • Patricia Acosta-Vargas

26 May 2023

Technological advancements have allowed for the design and development of multiple intelligent devices that monitor the health and safety status of workers in the industry in general. This paper reviews and describes the alternative technologies and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
343 Views
19 Pages

Health Professionals’ Safety in Facing the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perceptions from a Brazilian Municipality

  • Alzilid Cintia Rodarte,
  • Kelly Aline Rodrigues Costa,
  • Herica Silva Dutra,
  • Sílvia Manuela Dias Tavares da Silva,
  • Selma Maria da Fonseca Viegas and
  • Fernanda Moura Lanza

24 October 2025

Health professionals’ safety is directly linked to organizational culture, and during the COVID-19 pandemic, weaknesses at organizational, emotional, professional, and structural levels became evident. This study aimed to assess health professi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,873 Views
17 Pages

Exploring the Current Technologies Essential for Health and Safety in the Ghanaian Construction Industry

  • Kofi Agyekum,
  • Hayford Pittri,
  • Edward Ayebeng Botchway,
  • Judith Amudjie,
  • Victoria Maame Afriyie Kumah,
  • Jenefailus Nikoi Kotei-Martin and
  • Reindolf Animapauh Oduro

18 October 2022

Technology has undoubtedly played a vital role in improving construction procedures and processes for many years. However, its application for health and safety monitoring and management has not been fully exploited in the Ghanaian construction indus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
9,195 Views
20 Pages

5 February 2024

As a prominent organizational issue, there was limited evidence in the literature regarding the relationship between organizational strategy, workplace health, safety, and wellbeing, and performance measurements that demonstrate a measurable impact o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,898 Views
15 Pages

Total Worker Health® and Small Business Employee Perceptions of Health Climate, Safety Climate, and Well-Being during COVID-19

  • Carol E. Brown,
  • Lynn Dexter,
  • Natalie V. Schwatka,
  • Miranda Dally,
  • Liliana Tenney,
  • Erin Shore and
  • Lee S. Newman

The COVID-19 pandemic created workplace challenges for employee safety and health, especially in small enterprises. We used linear mixed-effects regression to examine changes in health climate, safety climate, and worker well-being, prior to the pand...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
11,929 Views
10 Pages

The Impact of Meaningful Use and Electronic Health Records on Hospital Patient Safety

  • Kate E. Trout,
  • Li-Wu Chen,
  • Fernando A. Wilson,
  • Hyo Jung Tak and
  • David Palm

The HITECH Act aimed to leverage Electronic Health Records (EHRs) to improve efficiency, quality, and patient safety. Patient safety and EHR use have been understudied, making it difficult to determine if EHRs improve patient safety. The objective of...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
10,432 Views
21 Pages

Expanding the Focus of Occupational Safety and Health: Lessons from a Series of Linked Scientific Meetings

  • Paul A. Schulte,
  • George L. Delclos,
  • Sarah A. Felknor,
  • Jessica M. K. Streit,
  • Michelle McDaniel,
  • L. Casey Chosewood,
  • Lee S. Newman,
  • Faiyaz A. Bhojani,
  • Rene Pana-Cryan and
  • Naomi G. Swanson

There is widespread recognition that the world of work is changing, and agreement is growing that the occupational safety and health (OSH) field must change to contribute to the protection of workers now and in the future. Discourse on the evolution...

  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
9,183 Views
31 Pages

28 August 2022

Over the last decade, there has been an increased interest in public health measures concerning food quality and drug safety in supply chains and logistics operations. Against this backdrop, this study systematically reviewed the extant literature to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,905 Views
14 Pages

Multicriteria Health and Safety Risk Assessments in Highway Construction Projects

  • Georgios K. Koulinas,
  • Olympia E. Demesouka,
  • Panagiotis K. Marhavilas,
  • Nikolaos I. Orfanos and
  • Dimitrios E. Koulouriotis

7 June 2023

Road building sites are no exception to the fact that construction is one of the most dangerous businesses in the world. There are a number of concerns about the health and safety of the workers at these sites since they combine personnel, machinery,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,385 Views
19 Pages

Effect of Health and Safety Management Systems in the Construction Sector

  • Carlos Arévalo Sarrate,
  • Javier Tarín Martínez,
  • Antonio Lorenzo Lara Galera and
  • Rubén Ángel Galindo Aires

9 January 2024

Management systems that are recognized as key tools to improve business management and the results associated with it have spread at the business level during the last 50 years. Regarding Safety Management Systems (SMSs), despite having specific inte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
13,737 Views
17 Pages

Occupational Health and Safety Scope Significance in Achieving Sustainability

  • Sotirios Kavouras,
  • Ioannis Vardopoulos,
  • Roido Mitoula,
  • Antonis A. Zorpas and
  • Panagiotis Kaldis

20 February 2022

A safe and healthy working environment is vital for overall sustainability, due to the fact that it affects opportunities of economic and social development. However, according to the International Labour Organization (ILO), despite the international...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,657 Views
16 Pages

The development and dissemination of new technologies has brought forward a rise in flexible work arrangements, such as mobile work. In the literature, mobile work has mostly been discussed from a microergonomic perspective, considering detachment, s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,718 Views
24 Pages

Proposal for the Integration of Health and Safety into the Design of Road Projects with BIM

  • Darío Collado-Mariscal,
  • Juan Pedro Cortés-Pérez,
  • Alfonso Cortés-Pérez and
  • Antonia Cuevas-Murillo

20 October 2022

The high number of accidents in the construction sector makes the concept of prevention through design (PtD), which starts with the integration of an occupational risk assessment in this phase, increasingly important. To this end, BIM (building infor...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,881 Views
10 Pages

Biosensors in Occupational Safety and Health Management: A Narrative Review

  • Antonio Baldassarre,
  • Nicola Mucci,
  • Luigi Isaia Lecca,
  • Emanuela Tomasini,
  • Maria Julia Parcias-do-Rosario,
  • Carolina Tauil Pereira,
  • Giulio Arcangeli and
  • Paulo Antonio Barros Oliveira

A sensor is a device used to gather information registered by some biological, physical or chemical change, and then convert the information into a measurable signal. The first biosensor prototype was conceived more than a century ago, in 1906, but a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,343 Views
15 Pages

Mental Health and Safety Assessment Methods of Bus Drivers

  • Jianfeng Xi,
  • Ping Wang,
  • Tongqiang Ding,
  • Jian Tian and
  • Zhiqiang Li

21 December 2022

To explore the influence of the health psychology characteristics of bus driver on the probability of traffic accidents, such as the severity of unhealthy psychology and negative and impulsive personality. Combined with the demographic questionnaire,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
11,054 Views
13 Pages

Research on Occupational Safety, Health Management and Risk Control Technology in Coal Mines

  • Lu-jie Zhou,
  • Qing-gui Cao,
  • Kai Yu,
  • Lin-lin Wang and
  • Hai-bin Wang

This paper studies the occupational safety and health management methods as well as risk control technology associated with the coal mining industry, including daily management of occupational safety and health, identification and assessment of risks...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,430 Views
28 Pages

The annual increase in the number of occupational accidents and diseases in the Palestinian manufacturing industries confirms a serious problem that threatens the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) in such industries, with negative consequences in...

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