{"title":"[Disinfection in the food industry: generation of total chlorinated haloacetic acids as a consequence of industrial hygiene malpractice].","authors":"Borja Garrido Arias","doi":"10.12961/aprl.2024.27.04.01","DOIUrl":"10.12961/aprl.2024.27.04.01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101300,"journal":{"name":"Archivos de prevencion de riesgos laborales","volume":"27 4","pages":"347-353"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143607715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brian Johan Bustos-Viviescas, Carlos Enrique García Yerena, Javit Enrique Luna Manjarres
{"title":"[Can artificial intelligence help prevent suicide in healthcare workers?]","authors":"Brian Johan Bustos-Viviescas, Carlos Enrique García Yerena, Javit Enrique Luna Manjarres","doi":"10.12961/aprl.2024.27.04.02","DOIUrl":"10.12961/aprl.2024.27.04.02","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101300,"journal":{"name":"Archivos de prevencion de riesgos laborales","volume":"27 4","pages":"354-356"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143607706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[What happens after breast cancer treatment? A perspective from the consequences in working life].","authors":"Jennifer Angie Fernández Chávez","doi":"10.12961/aprl.2024.27.04.03","DOIUrl":"10.12961/aprl.2024.27.04.03","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101300,"journal":{"name":"Archivos de prevencion de riesgos laborales","volume":"27 4","pages":"357-359"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143607728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Mental health in healthcare professionals after Covid-19].","authors":"Beatriz Talavera-Velasco","doi":"10.12961/aprl.2024.27.04.09","DOIUrl":"10.12961/aprl.2024.27.04.09","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An interview with Beatriz Talavera-Velasco.</p>","PeriodicalId":101300,"journal":{"name":"Archivos de prevencion de riesgos laborales","volume":"27 4","pages":"435-439"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143607724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Night work and endometrial cancer].","authors":"Laura Costas","doi":"10.12961/aprl.2024.27.03.10","DOIUrl":"10.12961/aprl.2024.27.03.10","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Interview with Laura Costas.</p>","PeriodicalId":101300,"journal":{"name":"Archivos de prevencion de riesgos laborales","volume":"27 3","pages":"330-333"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143607694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sofía Romero Gil, Marina Morcillo Martin, Paula Pereira Velicia, Kelly González Anselmo, José María Ramada, Fernando G Benavides
{"title":"[A case of COVID-19 in a healthcare professional is recognized in the first instance as an occupational disease].","authors":"Sofía Romero Gil, Marina Morcillo Martin, Paula Pereira Velicia, Kelly González Anselmo, José María Ramada, Fernando G Benavides","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101300,"journal":{"name":"Archivos de prevencion de riesgos laborales","volume":"27 3","pages":"301-302"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143607657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Relationship between certain uses of artificial intelligence and psychosocial risk factors in European work environments].","authors":"Raúl Payá Castiblanque, Alejandro Pizzi","doi":"10.12961/aprl.2024.27.03.02","DOIUrl":"10.12961/aprl.2024.27.03.02","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>To examine the relationship between the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to assess and monitor job performance and exposure to psychosocial risk factors, as well as associated adverse health effects in the European work environment.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Cross-sectional study using microdata from the 2022 \"Occupational Safety and Health in Post-Pandemic Workplaces (Flash Eurobarometer)\" survey (EU-OSHA) with 27252 participants. After selecting 12 dichotomous dependent variables (psychosocial risks and adverse health effects) and the presence of AI and its various uses to supervise and evaluate workers performance as independent variables, we calculated the crude and adjusted (aOR) odds ratios by sociodemographic covariates and their corresponding 95% confidence intervals (95%CI).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>When AI is used to monitor or control individual performance, it increases time pressure and work overload (ORa=1.5;95%CI:1.3-1.7), reduces autonomy or influence over work processes (ORa=2.2;95%CI:2.1-2.3), and erodes communication or cooperation within the organization (ORa=1.5;95%CI:1.4-1.6). It also increases the probability of reporting stress, depression or anxiety (ORa=1.5; 95%CI:1.4-1.5) and accidents or injuries (ORa=1.7; 95%CI:1.6-1.8).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>AI as a \"digital supervisor\" increases exposure to psychosocial risk factors and the likelihood of health damage. This highlights the importance of considering worker well-being along with economic efficiency when implementing AI in work organizations. These results can guide labor policies to balance process optimization with healthy work environments through social dialogue.</p>","PeriodicalId":101300,"journal":{"name":"Archivos de prevencion de riesgos laborales","volume":"27 3","pages":"233-249"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143607699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychosocial risks and mental health of health and social care workers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.","authors":"Nadia Vilahur Chiaraviglio","doi":"10.12961/aprl.2024.27.03.01","DOIUrl":"10.12961/aprl.2024.27.03.01","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Certainly, our perception of the world we live in has changed since COVID-19 irrupted in our lives in March 2020. Many of our certainties in the European continent were shaked by the unequivocal evidence of our vulnerability as individuals and our lack of preparedness as a society to manage a health emergency of unknown boundaries, despite having one of the most well-developed health systems across the globe. Much has been said about COVID-19, but never as I can remember, so much has been said about workers, and occupational safety and health, for once, hit the headlines. Healthcare workers - physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, paramedical workers and alike were applauded daily, in Spain. The new heroes of our times, fulfilling the Hippocratic Oath, providing care to those more in need, while taking health risks of uncertain nature to themselves and their closest relatives. Health and social care workers were frontline workers not only because of their closeness to the virus, but because of the distress and moral dilemmas they faced while seeing people die in isolation or having to choose between one respirator, and too many patients. The pandemic was officially declared over by WHO in May 2023, and the world has been eager to return to normality, to overcome, to forget. However, adverse effects on the mental health and wellbeing of health and social care workers, one of the largest and steadily growing occupational sectors in the EU, are likely to persist. Health and social care workers across the EU consistently reported poor work conditions and high rates of work-related stress in mid 2022, in as much as 56% of the workforce in the sector, as well as a higher prevalence of mental health problems, compared to professionals in any other sector of activity. There appears to be a concerning trend of increasing exposure to work-related psychosocial risk factors within this sector, with amplified job-demands and limited job resources peaking during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of us may experience another pandemic, arising under the current scenarios of climate alterations leading to disease vectors spreading in new areas, the return of old ones, and aggravated human transmission pathways. While we cannot fully predict what the next epidemic could be or how it will hit us, what can be said with high certainty is that caring for those who care, will undoubtedly increase our preparedness as a society in the face of future health emergencies and crises. Safeguarding the mental health of workers in the health and social care sector will help retaining a critical workforce by improving their working conditions and wellbeing. It will ensure a better quality of care and patient safety, and ultimately increase the resilience of our health systems in the face of future outbreaks. Public bodies such as the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) are currently focusing their research efforts on further understa","PeriodicalId":101300,"journal":{"name":"Archivos de prevencion de riesgos laborales","volume":"27 3","pages":"229-232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143607702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Dystonia. Professional contingency in musicians. About a case].","authors":"María Teófila Vicente Herrero","doi":"10.12961/aprl.2024.27.03.05","DOIUrl":"10.12961/aprl.2024.27.03.05","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Dystonia is a motor disorder that causes involuntary contractions of muscles through repeated movements. Wind and string players are particularly vulnerable to this disease, with orofacial and dominant upper limb involvement. Its origin is multifactorial, with ergonomic, psychosocial and organizational risks standing out as occupational risks. The Spanish legislation does not include musician's dystonia in the list of occupational diseases. The determination of contingency is complex in order to establish the principles of causality and temporality required by the Mutual Social Security Collaborators and by the National Institute of Social Security. The process frequently ends up in the Courts of Justice. Scientific evidence and jurisprudential doctrine provide documentary support that facilitates decision-making and opens the door to the future incorporation of musicians' dystonia into the list of occupational diseases in our country.</p>","PeriodicalId":101300,"journal":{"name":"Archivos de prevencion de riesgos laborales","volume":"27 3","pages":"290-295"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143607689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pablo Gutierrez, Jesus Alegre-Quintana, Liliana Agustini-Paredes
{"title":"[Design and validation of an instrument to measure the level of worker participation in an Occupational Health and Safety Management System].","authors":"Pablo Gutierrez, Jesus Alegre-Quintana, Liliana Agustini-Paredes","doi":"10.12961/aprl.2024.27.03.03","DOIUrl":"10.12961/aprl.2024.27.03.03","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Occupational health and safety is affected by various internal and external factors, most importantly the human factor. The objective of this study was to design and validate a questionnaire to measure the level of worker participation in occupational health and safety management systems.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>To design the questionnaire, Peruvian regulations and recommendations from international institutions, among others, were consulted. The qualitative validation was based on expert judgment, using the content validity coefficient (CVC). For quantitative validation, we conducted a reliability analysis using Cronbach's alpha coefficient, correlation analysis of the questions, and construct validity analysis using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We designed a 25-item questionnaire with a CVC of 0.94. The quantitative validation was performed at the Industrial Engineering College of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, resulting in the elimination of 5 questions based on results of the reliability, construct and exploratory factor analyses. In the confirmatory factor analysis, the remaining 20 questions had factor loadings greater than 0.50, and a repeat reliability analysis yielded a Cronbach's alpha of 0.949.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This validated questionnaire will allow the determination of the degree of participation in occupational safety and health in companies, as well as the ability to assess needs and impact of implemented improvements.</p>","PeriodicalId":101300,"journal":{"name":"Archivos de prevencion de riesgos laborales","volume":"27 3","pages":"250-268"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143607686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}