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The Effects of Nurses' Personal and Professional Characteristics on Needle Stick Injuries 护士个人及职业特征对针刺伤的影响
Archives of Occupational Health Pub Date : 2021-12-08 DOI: 10.18502/aoh.v5i4.7976
Masoud Askari Majdabadi, S. Mousavi, Saeid Yazdanirad, Sogand Pirhadi, Seyyedeh Shadi Hosseini, Mohammad Beiruti, Hossein Rezaei, Fateme Khoshpasand, Faranak Najarian
{"title":"The Effects of Nurses' Personal and Professional Characteristics on Needle Stick Injuries","authors":"Masoud Askari Majdabadi, S. Mousavi, Saeid Yazdanirad, Sogand Pirhadi, Seyyedeh Shadi Hosseini, Mohammad Beiruti, Hossein Rezaei, Fateme Khoshpasand, Faranak Najarian","doi":"10.18502/aoh.v5i4.7976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18502/aoh.v5i4.7976","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Nurses face many professional dangers such as needle stick injuries. This study investigated the effects of nurses' personal and professional characteristics on needle stick injuries. \u0000Methods: The present cross-sectional study was performed on 200 nursing staff in a hospital. The sampling method was the classified method. Participants were asked to complete a researcher-made questionnaire on personal characteristics (age, work experience, gender, marital status, and educational level) and job (work department, number of shifts per month, and type of work shift). Also, the number of their needle stick events was extracted from their medical records. \u0000Results: The prevalence of needle sticks was 45.5%. Based on individual characteristics, the mean age and work experience of people with a history of needle stick are significantly lower than people without a history of needle stick (P <0.03). There was a significant relationship between needle stick history and educational level (P <0.00). However, there was no significant difference between the two groups without and with a history of needle stick in terms of marital status (P = 0.11) and gender (P = 0.13). Based on job characteristics, there were significant relationships between the history of needle stick with the variables of type of work shift (P = 0.00) and the number of shifts per month (P <0.00). \u0000Conclusion: Some personal and professional characteristics effective in needle sticking were identified. These findings can be used as a guide to prioritize individuals to take precautionary measures against needle sticking.","PeriodicalId":32672,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Occupational Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45448432","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}
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Assessing Safety Culture and its Relationship with Mental Load and Job Stress in the National Gas Company 国家燃气公司安全文化评价及其与心理负荷和工作压力的关系
Archives of Occupational Health Pub Date : 2021-12-08 DOI: 10.18502/aoh.v5i4.7978
P. Sepehr, M. Jabbari, Marzieh Erfani Fard, Sh. Rezapour, K. Samimi
{"title":"Assessing Safety Culture and its Relationship with Mental Load and Job Stress in the National Gas Company","authors":"P. Sepehr, M. Jabbari, Marzieh Erfani Fard, Sh. Rezapour, K. Samimi","doi":"10.18502/aoh.v5i4.7978","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18502/aoh.v5i4.7978","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Accidents may occur for varying reasons, including unsafe behaviors, which originate from the safety culture of the organization. Job stress and mental load may also be contributory to accidents. This study aimed to assess safety culture and its relationship with mental load and job stress in a national gas company in Iran. \u0000Methods: This is a cross-sectional study conducted over a period of one year. This study used the NASA-TLX task load index, a standard questionnaire approved by the American National Institute of Mental Health to measure job stress, and the standard Health and Safety Executive safety culture questionnaire. All personnel was counted, and the total number of employees was 122. Statistical methods of t-test, correlation coefficient, and averaging have been used. Data were collected and analyzed in SPSS software and Microsoft Excel software. \u0000 Results: The average mental load of employees was 61.51, i.e., moderate level. The average job stress and employee safety culture were 180.43, i.e., high level, and 331.34, i.e., desired level. The mental load was assessed as moderate, safety culture was optimal, and job stress was high. A significant relation was found between safety culture and mental load (correlation coefficient: -0.278; p = 0.03). Besides, the mental load was significantly related to job stress (correlation coefficient=0.293; p =  0.2). \u0000Conclusion: Controlling stress and reducing the mental load in sensitive work environments is important and can lead to a higher level of safety culture in the organization.","PeriodicalId":32672,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Occupational Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42905317","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}
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The Impact of Organizational Culture on Safety-conscious Considering the Mediating Role of Employees' Job Satisfaction: A Case Study 考虑员工工作满意度中介作用的组织文化对安全意识的影响:个案研究
Archives of Occupational Health Pub Date : 2021-12-08 DOI: 10.18502/aoh.v5i4.7977
G. Shirali, B. Kohnavard, Payam Amini, B. Jafari, S. A. Jazayeri
{"title":"The Impact of Organizational Culture on Safety-conscious Considering the Mediating Role of Employees' Job Satisfaction: A Case Study","authors":"G. Shirali, B. Kohnavard, Payam Amini, B. Jafari, S. A. Jazayeri","doi":"10.18502/aoh.v5i4.7977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18502/aoh.v5i4.7977","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Employees' awareness about safety is a required element to develop a safe behavior so that it allows designing programs to improve safety performance at work. Therefore, the present study attempts to examine the effects of organizational culture on personal safety level with employees' satisfaction as a mediation variable. \u0000Methods: This descriptive-analytical and cross-sectional study was conducted with 229 steel industry workers using a standard questionnaire. The questionnaire had 47 items arranged in two sections, including demographics and job information as section one and organizational culture, personnel safety awareness, and employees' satisfaction as section two. Data analyses were done using SPSS and LISREL, and the relationships between the variables were determined using a structural equations model. \u0000Results: The mean score of satisfaction and personnel safety awareness was equal to 54.58 and 8.65, respectively. The highest mean score of organizational culture dimensions was obtained for patriarchy vs. matriarchy (33.2), and the lowest mean score was obtained for individualism vs. collectivism (16.08). Organizational culture was notably and positively affected by individualism vs. collectivism, avoiding uncertainty, and distance from power. In addition, there was a significant relationship between the total mean score of the dimensions of the organizational culture questionnaire and work wards (P<0.001). \u0000Conclusion: The study showed that organizational culture has a direct relationship with personnel safety awareness and job satisfaction. These results point out that the human factor has the most important role in preventing occupational accidents. Accordingly, businesses and employers should establish and disseminate organizational culture in their organizations.","PeriodicalId":32672,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Occupational Health","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41971229","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}
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Exploring the Viewpoint of Oil Industry Employees about Factors Affecting the Success of Standard Operating Procedures 石油行业员工对影响标准作业程序成功因素的看法探讨
Archives of Occupational Health Pub Date : 2021-09-12 DOI: 10.18502/aoh.v5i3.7162
Iman Shaban, A. Farshad, R. Yarahmadi, M. Mansourian, Seyedeh Melika Kharghani Moghadam, Kamaladdin Abedi, H. Ebrahimi
{"title":"Exploring the Viewpoint of Oil Industry Employees about Factors Affecting the Success of Standard Operating Procedures","authors":"Iman Shaban, A. Farshad, R. Yarahmadi, M. Mansourian, Seyedeh Melika Kharghani Moghadam, Kamaladdin Abedi, H. Ebrahimi","doi":"10.18502/aoh.v5i3.7162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18502/aoh.v5i3.7162","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Different factors affect the success of standard operational procedures (SOPs). This study was conducted to explore the viewpoints of employees of Tehran Oil Refining Company about factors affecting the usability of SOPs. \u0000Methods: This qualitative study was a conventional content analysis research conducted on the oil refining company employers 2020, using  the semi-structured interviews. The data were analyzed by content analysis method using MAXQDA software. \u0000Results: The results showed that the employees had a positive perception toward the standard operating procedures and most of them used these procedures to improve work performance and reduce accidents. Also, from the viewpoint of the employees, organizational factors (desirable organizational culture, continuous supervision and evaluation and assurance of accurate implementation of instructions, and continuous personnel training), individual factors (positive perception of the personnel about the organization goals, rules obedience of the personnel, positive experiences of personnel from the implementation of instructions in the past), and environmental factors (environmental dynamics and their related SOP dynamics, desirable but formal relationships of managers and supervisors with personnel as well as optimal and standard work schedule) had a positive effect on the applicability of these procedures. \u0000Conclusion: The findings of this study showed that the employees, consider standard operating procedures of organizational, individual, and environmental factors effective in using standard operating instructions. Therefore, to increase the applicability of these procedures, the employees should consider their opinions.","PeriodicalId":32672,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Occupational Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46390457","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}
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Incidence of Occupational Accidents and Contributing Factors among Male Workers in an Electrical Distribution Company in Istanbul, Turkey 土耳其伊斯坦布尔一家配电公司男职工职业事故发生率及影响因素
Archives of Occupational Health Pub Date : 2021-09-12 DOI: 10.18502/aoh.v5i3.7158
Zehra Kocyigit-Cakir, Ozlem Ozkan
{"title":"Incidence of Occupational Accidents and Contributing Factors among Male Workers in an Electrical Distribution Company in Istanbul, Turkey","authors":"Zehra Kocyigit-Cakir, Ozlem Ozkan","doi":"10.18502/aoh.v5i3.7158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18502/aoh.v5i3.7158","url":null,"abstract":"Background: This study aimed to determine the incidence of occupational accidents among male workers in an electric power distribution company and to analyze the contributing factors. \u0000Methods: This prospective cohort study was conducted on 158 male workers from an electricity distribution company in Istanbul (Turkey) between October 2014 and June 2015 in two phases. In the first phase, the data were collected with the face-to-face interviews based on a questionnaire related to the occupational accidents and working conditions in the past year. Then, each worker was followed-up for four months for the occupational accident incidence. The data were analyzed using SPSS software. The degree and magnitude of association between dependent and independent variables were determined by Phi (Φ) and Cramer's V coefficient. \u0000Results: The incidence rate of self-reported occupational accidents was 47.5% in the past year. The incidence was found to be higher for those aged over 41 (51.7%, p=0.02), work in lighting and overhead line units (71.0% and 47.2%, p=0.04), have occupational disease (66.7%, p=0.01), and have witnessed any occupational accident in the electricity sector (66.1%, p<0.001). The incidence rate was moderately associated with the working unit (Cramer’sV=0.25), witnessing any occupational accident (Φ=0.29), and occupational disease (Φ=0.21). It was higher for those with shift work (52.0%; p=0.29) and with job insecurity (51.8%, p=0.11). The incidence rate of occupational accidents based on four-month follow-up was 0.53 person-year. The most frequent type of accident was explosion (14.3%), and the majority of the accidents resulted in injuries (78.6%). \u0000Conclusion: The incidence of occupational accidents among male workers in the electricity distribution company was higher than the national average. The accidents were significantly related to the working conditions.","PeriodicalId":32672,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Occupational Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43314938","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}
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Association between Socioeconomic Factors and Hearing Loss in Working Population 社会经济因素与劳动人口听力损失的关系
Archives of Occupational Health Pub Date : 2021-07-10 DOI: 10.18502/aoh.v5i3.7165
A. Biabani, M. Zokaei, M. Falahati, Shahla Ziamanesh
{"title":"Association between Socioeconomic Factors and Hearing Loss in Working Population","authors":"A. Biabani, M. Zokaei, M. Falahati, Shahla Ziamanesh","doi":"10.18502/aoh.v5i3.7165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18502/aoh.v5i3.7165","url":null,"abstract":"Background: This study aimed to investigate the association between demographic, social, and economic factors of employees and hearing loss. \u0000Methods: In this cross-sectional study, the required data were extracted from the periodic medical examination of 987 workers in an automotive industry. Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney tests were used to study the associations. The data were analyzed in the SPSS software. \u0000Results: In this study, most of the subjects were in the age group of 30-49 years and also had less than 10 years of working experience. In terms of education level, most of them had a diploma. The relationship between work experience and hearing loss indicated profound hearing loss among a workers with 10 to 20 years of work experience. According to age, the subjects over the age of 55 years had the highest prevalence of hearing loss (p = 0.04). \u0000Conclusion: Age and work experience, education, income, and type of job are among the factors that could predict the at risk population for hearing loss.","PeriodicalId":32672,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Occupational Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49104282","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}
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Relationship between Dimensions of Safety Climate and Unsafe Behaviors of the Construction Industry Workers 安全气候各维度与建筑业工人不安全行为的关系
Archives of Occupational Health Pub Date : 2021-07-10 DOI: 10.18502/aoh.v5i3.7164
Sara Tabanfar, Reza Pourbabaki, Seyvan Sobhani
{"title":"Relationship between Dimensions of Safety Climate and Unsafe Behaviors of the Construction Industry Workers","authors":"Sara Tabanfar, Reza Pourbabaki, Seyvan Sobhani","doi":"10.18502/aoh.v5i3.7164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18502/aoh.v5i3.7164","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Construction industry has been ranked among the most dangerous industries worldwide due to the high number of accidents. The safety climate can be considered as a stimulus to reduce unsafe behaviors and thus reduction the accidents. This study was carried out to investigate the relationship between the dimensions of the safety climate and unsafe behavior of the construction workers in Tehran, Iran. \u0000Methods: The present study is a descriptive cross-sectional research on 90 construction workers. Unsafe behaviors recorded using the American National Standards Institute method and interviews with the workers. The Safety Climate was measured using the UK health care Safety Climate Questionnaire. The descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) were used to summarize the findings and the Pearson’s correlation coefficient was used to show the relationship between the variables. The SPSS software was used to analyze the data. \u0000Results: The mean and standard deviation of safety climate score and unsafe behavior were (3.98+ 0.27) and (45.93 + 17.3), respectively. There was a significant relationship between unsafe behaviors and staff knowledge (r = -0.31 and P = 0.004). We also found relationship between unsafe behavior and safety climate score (r = -0.21 and P = 0.043). \u0000Conclusion: The employees' knowledge was one of the most important components of workplace safety. Also, this component assigned itself the highest score, and increasing the score in this dimension of the safety climate can lead to reduction unsafe behavior. Finally, according to the results, as the safety climate among employees increases, unsafe behaviors will decrease, and productivity would be increase.","PeriodicalId":32672,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Occupational Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43449792","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}
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Ergonomic Design of Classroom Furnitures: Evaluation of Comfortability and Musculoskeletal Disorders 教室家具的人机工程学设计:舒适性和肌肉骨骼障碍的评估
Archives of Occupational Health Pub Date : 2021-07-10 DOI: 10.18502/aoh.v5i3.7159
K. A. Afrifah, M. Glalah
{"title":"Ergonomic Design of Classroom Furnitures: Evaluation of Comfortability and Musculoskeletal Disorders","authors":"K. A. Afrifah, M. Glalah","doi":"10.18502/aoh.v5i3.7159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18502/aoh.v5i3.7159","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Anthropometric studies are essential in furniture design to ensure comfortability and improved productivity of the users. \u0000Methods: Anthropometry of 407 from a population of 5601 students, and classroom furniture at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology were evaluated. Student’s comfortability and reported musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) in using the furniture were assessed with two questionnaires. Participants who volunteered for the study were randomly selected and had no previous history of MSDs. Descriptive statistics of the collected data were analyzed using SPSS software. \u0000Results: The participant's aged ranged from 17 to 28 years, and mostly were female (61%). The fitness between student’s anthropometry and classroom furniture included underneath table height for the imported plastic furniture and chair seat depth and width, as well as underneath table height for the locally manufactured wooden furniture. We observed high incidence of MSDs, including upper back (71.40%), lower back (58.30%), neck (51.90%), joint (39.10%), shoulder (32%), knee (25.20%), and wrist (22.60%) pain. The prevalence of MSDs were higher in women than men. The majority of the students were uncomfortable with using the furnitures, and only 6.6% reported comfortable experience. \u0000Conclusion: Recommended dimensions for ergonomically designed furniture have been proposed to reduce MSDs in the students. It would improves student’s health, and promote comfortability.","PeriodicalId":32672,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Occupational Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47948178","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}
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Analysis of Occupational Accidents: A Data Mining Study 职业事故分析:一个数据挖掘研究
Archives of Occupational Health Pub Date : 2021-07-10 DOI: 10.18502/aoh.v5i3.7161
Vahideh Dadfarma, A. Soltanzadeh, S. Ghiyasi
{"title":"Analysis of Occupational Accidents: A Data Mining Study","authors":"Vahideh Dadfarma, A. Soltanzadeh, S. Ghiyasi","doi":"10.18502/aoh.v5i3.7161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18502/aoh.v5i3.7161","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: Despite efforts exerted in various areas of the industry to reduce occupational accidents, the frequency of these accidents is reported to be catastrophically high. Therefore, this study was designed and conducted to analyze occupational accidents during a 3-year period. \u0000Methods: The current study was a retrospective and descriptive-analytical study carried out in four regions of Tehran between 2019-2020. The data collection instrument consisted of 818 reports of the occupational accident recorded in the Department of Labor in Tehran. Feature selection (IBM SPSS Modeler software) and binominal multiple logistic regression analysis (IBM SPSS software) were utilized in this study. \u0000Results: The means of age and experience of injured workers were  found to be 34.55±11.55 and 14.12±9.87, respectively. The highest rate of occupational accidents belonged to construction workshops (52.4%), production (24.4 %) and other public and social services activities (11.1 %). Data mining and modeling of factors affecting these occupational accidents showed that the consequence of the accidents was affected by seven factors (p<0.05). The results showed that the work experience, type of activity, number of workers, accident time on the day, type of incidence and the causes of the accident remained in the final model and were significant with the consequence of the occupational accidents (p<0.05). \u0000Conclusion: The results indicated that different parameters can affect the occurrence of occupational accidents. Additionally, the consequences of these occupational accidents can be influenced by different parameters and factors.","PeriodicalId":32672,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Occupational Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45375836","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}
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Occupational Exposure to Nickel in the Ceramic Workers: Biological Monitoring and Respiratory Outcomes 陶瓷工人的职业性镍暴露:生物监测和呼吸结果
Archives of Occupational Health Pub Date : 2020-10-28 DOI: 10.18502/aoh.v4i4.4516
F. Kargar-Shouroki, S. Shahtaheri, A. Barkhordari, N. Halvani
{"title":"Occupational Exposure to Nickel in the Ceramic Workers: Biological Monitoring and Respiratory Outcomes","authors":"F. Kargar-Shouroki, S. Shahtaheri, A. Barkhordari, N. Halvani","doi":"10.18502/aoh.v4i4.4516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18502/aoh.v4i4.4516","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Nickel (Ni) compounds such as nickel oxide are used as pigments in ceramic industries. The toxicity of nickel can occur in the glaze preparation processes. This study aimed to ascertain whether exposure to Ni dust is associated with pulmonary response. \u0000Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed on 49 ceramic workers (exposed group) occupationally exposed to nickel dust, as well as 55 unexposed employees (referent group). Information about smoking habits, overtime work, length of employment, skin dermatitis, job title, use of respiratory protection equipment, ventilation system, age, and BMI index were collected through questionnaires. The parameters of pulmonary function were measured. Urine samples were taken from 49 workers at both pre- and post-shift (98 samples). The referent group was examined only once (55 samples). To determine the nickel, the samples were pre-concentrated by Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) and analyzed using  inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectroscopy (ICP-AES). \u0000Results: Urinary Ni value in the exposed workers was significantly higher than that in the referent group. All pulmonary function parameters in the exposed group were significantly lower than those of the referent group (P<0.001). Those using respiratory protection equipment also exhibited a significantly lower urinary Ni concentration than those not using respiratory protection equipment. \u0000Conclusion: These findings indicate that exposure to Ni in the ceramic industry is higher than the recommended biological exposure index and is associated with a significant decrement in the pulmonary function parameters.","PeriodicalId":32672,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Occupational Health","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43685907","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}
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