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{"title":"Characteristics of needlestick and sharps injuries of the hands in the operating room among orthopedic surgeons in Japan.","authors":"Akihiro Tsuchiya,&nbsp;Koji Wada,&nbsp;Keita Morikane,&nbsp;Toru Yoshikawa,&nbsp;Yumiko Hosomi,&nbsp;Bibha Dhungel,&nbsp;Hiroyuki Kunishima","doi":"10.2486/indhealth.2021-0194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2486/indhealth.2021-0194","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Among the reports on needlestick and sharps injuries (NSIs), many are orthopedic-related due to the frequent use of sharp devices such as pins and wires. This study aimed to identify high-risk instruments, the most common injury sites for each instrument, and the circumstances of NSIs of the hand during orthopedic surgeries in Japan. Incidents of exposure to blood or bodily fluids among physicians during orthopedic surgeries reported to the Japan-EPINet between 2000 and 2015 were included in this study. The four most common devices were identified and the associations among years of experience, equipment users, and injured sites were analyzed. We identified 666 cases of NSIs affecting orthopedic surgeons in the operating room. The instrument most frequently responsible for NSIs was suture needles, which were involved in 265 cases (39.7%). The second most common instrument was pins/wires, which was involved in 111 cases (16.6%). NSIs of the hands of orthopedic surgeons were frequently caused by suture needles used in all surgeries, but relatively often caused by orthopedic devices. Orthopedic surgeons must be aware that they are at risk of NSIs and must take appropriate measures and always be cautious when performing surgery, regardless of their years of experience.</p>","PeriodicalId":13531,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Health","volume":"61 2","pages":"151-157"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/b4/10/indhealth-61-151.PMC10079498.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9265102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A roadmap to improve usage items to enhance the operational effectiveness of occupational safety and health management expense in Korean construction.","authors":"Sejong Lim,&nbsp;Jeong-Hun Won,&nbsp;Junghoon Seo,&nbsp;Soyoung Jeon,&nbsp;Chang-Won Kim","doi":"10.2486/indhealth.2022-0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2486/indhealth.2022-0008","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Occupational safety and health management expense (OSHE) in construction industry is a statutory expense used for the purpose of preventing occupational accident and health disorders for construction workers, and the detailed usage standard is stipulated in the law and regulations governed by the Ministry of Employment and Labor in Korea. Previous studies focused on improvement of the accounting rate of OSHE and institutional improvement to secure usage transparency, but analysis showed that the review of improvement directions for usage items was insufficient. Considering recent trends, such as the increase in industrial demand to improve existing usage items and the introduction of various smart safety products incorporating the Fourth Industrial Revolution technology, it is expected that it will be necessary to review ways to improve the usage items to enhance the operational efficiency of OSHE. Accordingly, this study collected opinions from various stakeholders, and presented a roadmap to improve usage items of OSHE through importance-performance analysis (IPA) based on the data. This study is expected to meet the needs demanded by industry, and to be utilized as a reference for policy preparation to enhance the safety of construction sites.</p>","PeriodicalId":13531,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Health","volume":"61 2","pages":"158-170"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/99/88/indhealth-61-158.PMC10079505.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9629070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Is decision-making influenced by interactions between extended wakefulness and weak emotional stressors? An experimental study.","authors":"Ritsuko Nishimura,&nbsp;Kazuki Menrai,&nbsp;Mayu Kajihara,&nbsp;Shoichi Asaoka","doi":"10.2486/indhealth.2021-0260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2486/indhealth.2021-0260","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, we aimed to determine whether 21-hour continuous wakefulness decreases performance in the Iowa Gambling Task and examine the effect of the interaction between a weak emotional stressor and prolonged continuous wakefulness on the decision-making process, as measured by the Iowa Gambling Task. Approximately half of 38 healthy college students were in the sleep deprivation condition (they performed the task at 4:30 a.m.); the remainder were in the daytime condition (they performed the task during the day). The participants in each sleep condition were further divided into non-exposed and exposed to an emotional stressor via a social exclusion procedure before the task, with the Iowa Gambling Task score as the dependent variable. In the sleep deprivation condition, performance in the final block of the task was significantly worse in the group with an emotional stressor than the group without. There was no main effect of sleep conditions or emotional stressors on the task performance in either block. The results of this study suggest that even 21 hours of continuous wakefulness, which can occur in daily work life, may prevent appropriate learning in people exposed to an emotional stressor, even if the stress caused due to it is low.","PeriodicalId":13531,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Health","volume":"61 2","pages":"92-101"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/dd/5a/indhealth-61-092.PMC10079499.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9620352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The past and future of industrial hygiene in Japan.","authors":"Jun Ojima","doi":"10.2486/indhealth.61_200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2486/indhealth.61_200","url":null,"abstract":"involving the control of hazardous factors, such as harmful airborne chemical substances and physical factors, that workers encounter in their workplace and the prevention of health problems caused by such factors using science and engineering knowledge and techniques. This definition and purpose closely resemble those for industrial hygiene in other countries. However, the Japanese occupational health system has a unique administrative principle called the “three-management strategy”. Considering that industrial hygiene falls under occupational health, it is also required to follow this principle. The “three-management strategy” is the philosophy that workers’ health should be ensured by completing the following three matters: · Work management: Reducing the load on individual workers by optimizing their work hours, workload, work methods, work cycles, and work posture. Ensuring that workers wear the necessary protective equipment. · Working environment control: Assessing the risk of harmful substances, such as organic solvents, dust, heavy metals, and several physical factors, in the working environment. Controlling and eliminating them as best as possible using a ventilation system, etc. · Health care: Preventing health problems of workers by determining their health conditions through health checkups and implementing appropriate measures and health guidance based on the results of the checkups. The current Japanese industrial hygiene system is mainly responsible for providing the information and technologies necessary for work management and working environment control. Therefore, regardless of propriety, the Japanese industrial hygiene system tends to focus more on supporting administrative measures rather than basic scientific research. The “administrative control level” is one example of such characteristics of the Japanese industrial hygiene system and is one of the benchmarks for evaluating the risk of worker exposure. However, it is not the direct reference for personal exposure that many other countries have adopted. The correct definition of “administrative control level” is “the reference for evaluating the effectiveness of working environment control”, which is based on the notion that lowering the environmental concentration will consequently lower personal exposure. Thus, in principle, area sampling is adopted instead of personal sampling when measuring the concentration of hazardous chemical substances in working environments throughout Japan. The following outlines the brief history of industrial hygiene in Japan from its substantial birth to present-day circumstances. Many research subjects have now been added to the Japanese industrial hygiene, such as heat, noise, vibration, ionizing radiation, high-pressure gas, and hazardous rays. At the beginning, however, the most important issue for Japanese industrial hygiene was countermeasures against exposure to organic solvents, which prompted the addition of dust control to the iss","PeriodicalId":13531,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Health","volume":"61 2","pages":"89-91"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/5e/92/indhealth-61-089.PMC10079497.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9580028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The impact of corporate culture on industrial accidents in high-risk industries: a cross-sectional survey.","authors":"Jooman Noh,&nbsp;Seongjin Lee,&nbsp;Hong Chong Cho","doi":"10.2486/indhealth.2021-0252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2486/indhealth.2021-0252","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The rate of industrial accidents in Korea is two to three times higher than those in advanced countries such as Germany. These accidents are mainly concentrated in high-risk industrial areas. Using the ninth wave of the Occupational Safety and Health Company Survey by the Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute (OSHRI), we analyzed the influence of corporate culture on the occurrence of occupational accidents in high-risk industries using negative binomial regression. We found that older workers and foreign workers had a positive effect on the accident rate, while female workers had a negative effect on the accident rate. In addition, it was found that the health and safety management organization also reduced occupational accidents. Corporate culture and workplace environment significantly reduced industrial accidents among workers. This suggests that internal elements of an organization such as corporate culture and working environment can have an impact in reducing the occurrence of industrial accidents.</p>","PeriodicalId":13531,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Health","volume":"61 2","pages":"102-111"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/d5/1e/indhealth-61-102.PMC10079504.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9614778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Stress and the gig economy: it's not all shifts and giggles.","authors":"Sadia Hafeez,&nbsp;Charlotte Gupta,&nbsp;Madeline Sprajcer","doi":"10.2486/indhealth.2021-0217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2486/indhealth.2021-0217","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Gig work is a type of contingent work which has increased markedly in recent times, and is characterised by uncertainty, unpredictability, and instability of both schedules and income earned. Gig workers are also likely to work for multiple platforms and/or employers. These work characteristics mean that performing gig work is associated with higher rates of stress than the general population (Madden et al. Pers Rev 2017). However, it is not currently known which strategies gig workers use to cope with this stress - including which strategies are likely to be effective. The aim of this study was to understand the relationship between coping strategies, number of employers and stress in gig workers. An online survey was completed by 49 gig workers. Validated questionnaires were administered to measure coping strategies (Brief COPE) and stress (Perceived Stress Scale-14). Approach coping strategies (active, planning, and social support) were associated with reduced stress (p<0.05), whereas the avoidant coping strategy of self-blame was associated with increased stress (p<0.05). No differences in stress were seen between gig workers with one employer and those with multiple employers. Findings suggest that some coping strategies may lower stress in gig workers, though long-term outcomes should be considered in future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":13531,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Health","volume":"61 2","pages":"140-150"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/9d/bf/indhealth-61-140.PMC10079501.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9265098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Work-family conflict and withdrawal behavior among mainland China's IT employees: the mediating role of emotional exhaustion and moderating role of job autonomy.","authors":"Junyan Hou,&nbsp;Shu DA,&nbsp;Yuying Wei,&nbsp;Xichao Zhang","doi":"10.2486/indhealth.2021-0136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2486/indhealth.2021-0136","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Since the turn of the millennium, the information technology (IT) industry has been growing rapidly in mainland China. One of the significant characteristics of IT employees in mainland China during the past decades was that they tended to work more overtime, which might result in more work-family conflicts and higher turnover rates. Our study tested the mechanism of work-family conflict and work withdrawal behaviors using data from 389 IT employees in mainland China. Using the job demands-resources model and the conservation of resources theory, we examined the mediating effect of emotional exhaustion and the moderating effect of job autonomy. The results indicated that work-to-family conflict was negatively related with work withdrawal behaviors, whereas family-to-work conflict was positively related with work withdrawal behaviors. Moreover, we found the opposite moderating role of job autonomy, which enhanced the relationships between emotional exhaustion and work withdrawal behaviors. That is, the relationship was stronger among employees with higher job autonomy than among those with lower job autonomy. These findings indicate that work-family conflict relates to employees' psychological well-being and behavior, and that job autonomy might play a special role between work-family conflict and work withdrawal behaviors.</p>","PeriodicalId":13531,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Health","volume":"61 2","pages":"112-124"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/ab/50/indhealth-61-112.PMC10079500.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9261044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Work-interval system in Japan.","authors":"Masaya Takahashi","doi":"10.2486/indhealth.61_100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2486/indhealth.61_100","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13531,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Health","volume":"61 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/07/b5/indhealth-61-001.PMC9902262.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10658065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Walking the tightrope between work and home: the role of job/home resources in the relation between job/home demands and employee health and well-being.","authors":"Tianchang Ji, Jan DE Jonge, Toon W Taris, Norito Kawakami, Maria C W Peeters","doi":"10.2486/indhealth.2021-0276","DOIUrl":"10.2486/indhealth.2021-0276","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present study investigated the role of job/home resources in the relation between job/home demands and exhaustion, job satisfaction, work-home interference, and home-work interference during the COVID-19 pandemic. We explored the prevalence of job/home demands and resources during the COVID-19 pandemic, and examined whether working at different locations (i.e., working from home or at the office) affects how both job/home demands and resources are associated with employees' health and well-being. An online cross-sectional survey study using self-report questionnaires was carried out among the networks of the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH) association (N=153). The findings of this study illustrated that (1) cognitive job demands/resources and emotional home demands/resources were crucial in predicting employee health and well-being; (2) a conceptual match was detected between corresponding demands and resources; (3) subgroup analysis showed that employees were not heavily affected by the different working locations during the pandemic. In conclusion, this study confirms the positive role of job/home resources. We suggest that cultivating specific job/home resources and establishing an appropriate match between specific job/home resources and corresponding job/home demands is necessary to ensure employees' health and well-being in times of a pandemic.</p>","PeriodicalId":13531,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Health","volume":"61 1","pages":"24-39"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/62/3e/indhealth-61-024.PMC9902266.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10665369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Relationship among work-treatment balance, job stress, and work engagement in Japan: a cross-sectional study.","authors":"Kazunori Ikegami,&nbsp;Hajime Ando,&nbsp;Hisashi Eguchi,&nbsp;Mayumi Tsuji,&nbsp;Seiichiro Tateishi,&nbsp;Koji Mori,&nbsp;Keiji Muramatsu,&nbsp;Yoshihisa Fujino,&nbsp;Akira Ogami","doi":"10.2486/indhealth.2021-0250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2486/indhealth.2021-0250","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There is a drive to support workers in Japan undergoing medical treatment who wish to continue working, known as the work-treatment balance. This support for the work-treatment balance is expected to boost their mental health. This study examines the relationship among the work-treatment balance, job stress, and work engagement. This study was conducted in December 2020 in Japan, with 27,036 participants. We divided the participants into three groups by the receipt state of support for work-treatment balance: control group (do not need support), unsupported group, and supported group. The scores on the parameters of the job content questionnaire and the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES-3) were compared among groups using a multilevel regression with age-sex or multivariate-adjusted models. In the two models, the job control score of the unsupported group was significantly lower than that of the control group. The two social support scores of the supported group were significantly higher than those of the control group. The scores on the UWES-3 of the unsupported group were significantly lower than those of the control group. The support of work-treatment balance for workers could have a positive impact on their mental health.</p>","PeriodicalId":13531,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Health","volume":"61 1","pages":"56-67"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/e4/02/indhealth-61-056.PMC9902269.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10665375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}