3 Health and Safety Laboratory, Broad Lane, Sheffield S3 7HQ, UK Correspondence to: Dr H J Mason, Health and Safety Laboratory, Broad Lane, Sheffield S3 7HQ, UK; howard.mason{at}hsl.gov.uk Aims: To ...

2 Expert Centre for Chemical Risk Assessment, Arbo Unie, The Netherlands 3 Environmental Epidemiology Division, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands ...

2 Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA and International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France Complex and dynamic ...

Objectives Recently, the Individual Work Performance Questionnaire (IWPQ) version 0.2 was developed. One of its main purposes is to detect changes in individual work performance, for example in ...

Aims: To study the concentration of N,N-dimethylacetamide (DMA) and its metabolite, N-methylacetamide (NMA), in urine of workers occupationally exposed to DMA in a factory producing synthetic acrylic ...

Objectives The influence of commercial helium–oxygen saturation diving on divers’ gut microbiotas was assessed to provide dietary suggestion. Methods Faecal samples of 47 divers working offshore were ...

Aims: To estimate the prevalence of neurotic symptoms in a sample of British farmers, to investigate whether farming characteristics are associated with psychiatric morbidity, and to test the ...

Objectives Increasing epidemiological and experimental evidence suggests that particle exposure is an environmental risk factor for chronic kidney disease (CKD). However, only a few case–control ...

Objectives Occupational exposure to soft paper dust is associated with impaired lung function. Whether there is an increased risk for asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is unclear.

1 School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2 Black Dog Institute, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 3 St George Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, ...

The “need for recovery scale” is suggested as an operationalisation for the measurement of (early symptoms of) fatigue at work. Definition of and background on the concept of need for recovery are ...