A General Overview on Occupational Health and Safety and Occupational Disease Subjects

Fi̇dancı, İ̇zzet; Öztürk, Onur

doi:10.11648/j.jfmhc.20150101.15

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“…Despite the increasing interest in Occupational Safety and Health (OSH), about 6300 deaths and 860,000 nonfatal occupational injuries are recorded daily worldwide [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. Apart from threatening the life and health of workers [8][9][10][11], workplace accidents are highly sound economic sense [12,13].…”

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Development of a Conceptual Framework for Occupational Safety and Health in Palestinian Manufacturing Industries

Tuhul¹,

El‐Hamouz

Hasan

et al. 2021

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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 the society and economy. As the Palestinian OSH data are insufficient, tightwad, and with discrepancies in published data by different agencies, this study aimed to investigate the OSH status in the Palestinian manufacturing industries and determine the Palestinian OSH trends rates based on international practice in the EU and USA. Also, to shed light on the OSH situation in the manufacturing sector and warrant the inspection and monitoring of industries by the respective officials. The OSH data of 175 industrial establishments and 199 industrial employees was collected by meetings, interviews, and structured questionnaires for the period 2009–2016. The US and EU OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) formulas were used to calculate the OSH rates. The analysis showed that 32.30% of the industrial employees suffered from occupational injuries. The average injury rate was 7566 per 100,000 workers, indicating a low OSH level in the Palestinian manufacturing industries. The leather industry was found as the most dangerous in terms of OSH, with an average safety performance factor (SPF) of 145.6 off days/accident. Pearson’s chi-square test (χ2) revealed a correlation between occupational accidents and injuries and the employees’ commitment and lost working days. An OSH framework was developed based on safety and sustainable development pillars to assure effective enforcement of the OSH law and prevent future occupational accidents and diseases.

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Development of a Conceptual Framework for Occupational Safety and Health in Palestinian Manufacturing Industries

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El‐Hamouz

Hasan

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“…Occupational diseases caused by occupational activities and working conditions ( 1 ). In fact, any disease occurs at early stage as a result of exposure to occupational (physical, chemical or biological) risk factors is an occupational disease ( 1 - 3 ).…”

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Occupational Disease Registries-Characteristics and Experiences

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Introduction:Due to growth of occupational diseases and also increase of public awareness about their consequences, attention to various aspects of diseases and improve occupational health and safety has found great importance. Therefore, there is the need for appropriate information management tools such as registries in order to recognitions of diseases patterns and then making decision about prevention, early detection and treatment of them. These registries have different characteristics in various countries according to their occupational health priorities.Aim:Aim of this study is evaluate dimensions of occupational diseases registries including objectives, data sources, responsible institutions, minimum data set, classification systems and process of registration in different countries.Material and Methods:In this study, the papers were searched using the MEDLINE (PubMed) Google scholar, Scopus, ProQuest and Google. The search was done based on keyword in English for all motor engines including “occupational disease”, “work related disease”, “surveillance”, “reporting”, “registration system” and “registry” combined with name of the countries including all subheadings. After categorizing search findings in tables, results were compared with each other.Results:Important aspects of the registries studied in ten countries including Finland, France, United Kingdom, Australia, Czech Republic, Malaysia, United States, Singapore, Russia and Turkey. The results show that surveyed countries have statistical, treatment and prevention objectives. Data sources in almost the rest of registries were physicians and employers. The minimum data sets in most of them consist of information about patient, disease, occupation and employer. Some of countries have special occupational related classification systems for themselves and some of them apply international classification systems such as ICD-10. Finally, the process of registration system was different in countries.Conclusion:Because occupational diseases are often preventable, but not curable, it is necessary to all countries, to consider prevention and early detection of occupational diseases as the objectives of their registry systems. Also it is recommended that all countries reach an agreement about global characteristics of occupational disease registries. This enables country to compare their data at international levels.

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A study of situational circumstances related to Spain’s occupational accident rates in the metal sector from 2009 to 2019

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A General Overview on Occupational Health and Safety and Occupational Disease Subjects

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Development of a Conceptual Framework for Occupational Safety and Health in Palestinian Manufacturing Industries

Development of a Conceptual Framework for Occupational Safety and Health in Palestinian Manufacturing Industries

Occupational Disease Registries-Characteristics and Experiences

A study of situational circumstances related to Spain’s occupational accident rates in the metal sector from 2009 to 2019

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