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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Objective: There is limited information on the public health impact of wildfires. The relationship of cardiorespiratory hospital admissions (n = 40 856) to wildfire-related particulate matter (PM 2.5) ...

Objectives Asbestos is an inflammatory agent, and there is evidence that inflammatory processes are involved in the development of cardiovascular disease. Whether asbestos is a risk factor for ...

1 Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Feinberg Medical School, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA 2 Emergency Medicine, Department of ...