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{"title":"[Health-promoting work design for telework in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic].","authors":"Natascha Mojtahedzadeh, Elisabeth Rohwer, Julia Lengen, Volker Harth, Stefanie Mache","doi":"10.1007/s40664-020-00419-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40664-020-00419-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The contact restrictions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic have led many companies to allow their employees to work from home for infection control reasons.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This literature review explores the question in what way health-promoting work from home can be excercised.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Working from home requires consideration of the same guidelines just like those for office and computer workstations. To prevent negative mental and physical stress reactions, an ergonomic workstation design is recommended. Furthermore, the organization of working time (structuring the working day, adhering to breaks and regeneration units, and avoiding disturbances and interruptions) is of great importance for a health-promoting work design at home.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Important components of a health-promoting work design are temporal, spatial and mental separation of work and private life. Employees and their individual needs must be taken into account when designing a health-promoting workplace at home; however, the responsibility for implementing health-promoting work design mostly lies solely with the employees due to the ad hoc change of workplace.</p>","PeriodicalId":43038,"journal":{"name":"Zentralblatt fur Arbeitsmedizin Arbeitsschutz und Ergonomie","volume":"71 2","pages":"69-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7790022/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38812401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"[Adaptation of infection protection measures in public services due to the COVID-19 pandemic].","authors":"Julia Pieter,&nbsp;Wibke Körner,&nbsp;Volker Harth,&nbsp;Alexandra M Preisser","doi":"10.1007/s40664-020-00418-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40664-020-00418-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The COVID-19 pandemic is changing the requirements for occupational health and safety in the workplace. The aim of the measures implemented nationwide is to reduce the spread of the virus. This applies to all areas of life, including the workplace. The \"public service\" includes many system-relevant occupational groups: police, fire brigade, judiciary, municipal cleaning, waterworks and administrative bodies at local and state levels. There is a broad diversity of activities in communal and federal state enterprises, especially with regard to internal organisation as well as personnel and spatial conditions. Direct interactions with people are often necessary. Maintaining the functionality of these structures is essential for public life. Education institutions and care facilities for children, people with handicaps and vulnerable groups, institutions for nursing and geriatric care as well as public transport are not covered in this statement due to their special work structures. These recommendations address the professionally accountable in the respective public service institutions. It deals with infection control measures at work in the public service, derived from the risk assessments of various settings. The measures presented can be implemented as part of an operational concept for temporary infection control measures. The aim is to provide general guidance on infection protection with respect to work situations in order to slow down the dissemination of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), to protect at-risk groups, and ensure the functioning of the aforementioned structures.</p>","PeriodicalId":43038,"journal":{"name":"Zentralblatt fur Arbeitsmedizin Arbeitsschutz und Ergonomie","volume":"71 2","pages":"56-62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40664-020-00418-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38812857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"[Social isolation among teleworkers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic].","authors":"Julia Christine Lengen,&nbsp;Ann-Christin Kordsmeyer,&nbsp;Elisabeth Rohwer,&nbsp;Volker Harth,&nbsp;Stefanie Mache","doi":"10.1007/s40664-020-00410-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40664-020-00410-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>During the peak times of the COVID-19 pandemic, which were characterized by contact restrictions, many companies initiated telework for their employees due to infection prevention.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>In this literature review working from home and therefore digital cooperation in a virtual team was investigated, focusing on the organization of occupational health promotion aspects in the context of prevention of social isolation.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The current occupational health psychology research identified appropriate and enriched information and communication media accompanied by sufficient and understandable technical support as basic prerequisites for the collaboration of location-independent teams. Also, a continuous socially supporting communication within the team and with the supervisor as well as health-promoting leadership have a positive impact on the employees' mental health. Additionally, individual (digital) health promotion interventions and flexible working hours are recommended.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>These multifactorial approaches to measures derived from the literature are suggested for companies with employees working predominantly from home to reduce work-related adverse health effects from the crisis, especially with respect to social isolation and to promote their employees' health.</p>","PeriodicalId":43038,"journal":{"name":"Zentralblatt fur Arbeitsmedizin Arbeitsschutz und Ergonomie","volume":"71 2","pages":"63-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40664-020-00410-w","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38559598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"[Job-related satisfaction and health perception of dance teachers].","authors":"Mike Schmidt,&nbsp;Daniela Ohlendorf,&nbsp;Rüdiger Reer,&nbsp;David A Groneberg,&nbsp;Eileen M Wanke","doi":"10.1007/s40664-020-00420-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40664-020-00420-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The dance teacher's own body is considered to be the central working instrument within the movement mediation. Up to now there is a lack of knowledge about the subjective perception of one's own occupationally associated health and satisfaction as well as the identification of occupational characteristics that are detrimental to health.</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>Within the framework of a questionnaire-based cross-sectional survey, a cohort of dance teachers in Germany were investigated about dimensions of their own health and general job satisfaction in connection with their profession as a dance teacher. Likert scales were primarily used for these assessments. Additionally, general anthropometric and sociodemographic characteristics were recorded. Beside examining the overall cohort, gender-specific differences were tested. The statistical analysis included <i>n</i> = 232 dance teachers (male 51/female 181) aged 43.1 ± 11.0 years.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The general state of health was rated as satisfactory (26.1%) to very good (14.7%) by 85.3% of those surveyed. Of the dance teachers 59.2% even rated their health as good (35.3%) to very good. There was a high degree of satisfaction with their own professional practice for 80% of the participants. Most of the dance teachers felt that they were able to deal with the physical (75.7%) and psychological demands of their profession (70.3%). In addition to fears about the future (51.5%), the main burdensome professional characteristics on dance teachers' self-perception were organizational aspects of work (lack of time for family and friends in 28.4%) and economic aspects (income insecurity in 61.0% and lack of old age security in 65.7%).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The profession as a dance teacher is accompanied by a high level of general satisfaction and a positive perception of one's own state of health. A confirmation of these positive results by injury and illness statistics is still pending. In addition, an improvement in work organization and economic aspects would be desirable.</p>","PeriodicalId":43038,"journal":{"name":"Zentralblatt fur Arbeitsmedizin Arbeitsschutz und Ergonomie","volume":"71 3","pages":"109-117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40664-020-00420-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25325139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"[Prevention and management of COVID-19 outbreaks on merchant ships].","authors":"Dorothee Dengler,&nbsp;Thomas von Münster,&nbsp;Ann-Christin Kordsmeyer,&nbsp;Lukas Belz,&nbsp;Natascha Mojtahedzadeh,&nbsp;Jan Heidrich,&nbsp;Elisabeth Hewelt,&nbsp;Martin Dirksen-Fischer,&nbsp;Matthias Boldt,&nbsp;Volker Harth,&nbsp;Marcus Oldenburg","doi":"10.1007/s40664-021-00440-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40664-021-00440-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>A pandemic is a particular medical challenge for seafarers traveling without a physician on board. At the same time the global fight against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has to rely on resilient merchant shipping in order to maintain the flow of goods. For infection prevention and management on board, those responsible need a portfolio of protective measures that can be used on ships.</p><p><strong>Research questions: </strong>The overview examines the question of which technical, organizational and personal protective measures can be used on a merchant ship in order to prevent or cope with COVID-19 outbreaks on board.</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>Guidelines, information and occupational health and safety standards from the maritime setting, but also from many other work areas, were examined in order to facilitate a variable use by those responsible (e.g. according to ship size, equipment, weather, operating status, work requirements, contact with external persons, medical problems).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A handout was compiled that contains specific technical, organizational and personal protective measures for crews, explaining their use in a maritime context. Possible safety barriers, options to combine them and an appropriate timing are explained in a target group-oriented manner.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>A great variety of protective measures derived from occupational medical literature and the experience of the port medical service in Hamburg can also be implemented on the high seas. In pandemic times, merchant ships should be equipped with foresight (e.g. with rapid diagnostic tests) and those responsible should be authorized to use effective infection control measures adapted to the situation on board. Seafarers should receive priority vaccination offers regardless of their national origin.</p>","PeriodicalId":43038,"journal":{"name":"Zentralblatt fur Arbeitsmedizin Arbeitsschutz und Ergonomie","volume":"71 6","pages":"296-304"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40664-021-00440-y","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39363989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"[Classroom teaching at universities and colleges under the conditions of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic].","authors":"Alexandra M Preisser,&nbsp;Julia Pieter,&nbsp;Volker Harth","doi":"10.1007/s40664-020-00411-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40664-020-00411-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In order to maintain university teaching while observing the distance rules in accordance with the occupational health and safety standard of the German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS), special regulations and measures must be observed under the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic when students and teaching staff meet in large groups (lecture hall) and small teaching rooms (seminars, internships). The article gives detailed recommendations for the practical implementation of protective and preventive measures according to the STOP principle, which is customary in occupational health and safety: substitution, technical, organisational and personal protective measures. Responsibilities are named and also difficult situations where physical proximity is necessary (e.g. teaching medical examinations, joint laboratory work, sports and dance seminars) are analysed with regard to the necessary measures; recommendations are formulated.</p>","PeriodicalId":43038,"journal":{"name":"Zentralblatt fur Arbeitsmedizin Arbeitsschutz und Ergonomie","volume":"71 2","pages":"49-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40664-020-00411-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38563905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"[The effect of mobile air filter systems on aerosol concentrations in large volume scenarios against the background of the risk of infection of COVID-19. Can classroom teaching be resumed?]","authors":"M Oberst,&nbsp;T Klar,&nbsp;A Heinrich","doi":"10.1007/s40664-021-00435-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40664-021-00435-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>As a consequence of the corona pandemic, universities nationwide had stopped classroom teaching by the start of the summer semester 2020. As part of the second lockdown, in many states schools and day care centers were also closed or reduced to a minimum. In this context the effect of room air filters has already been discussed multiple times; however, mobile devices for air filtration are currently not recommended by the German Federal Environment Agency. The following investigation shows the real effects of mobile air filters on aerosol concentrations when used in lecture theaters, canteens or school learning centers.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The effects of a mobile air purifier (DEMA-airtech, Stuttgart, Germany) were measured in three large rooms (a lecture theater, a company canteen and a learning center of a grammar school). Aerosol and carbon dioxide concentrations were determined with devices from the company Palas (Karlsruhe, Germany).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>All three scenarios showed a relevant and permanent decrease in aerosol concentrations through the use of air filters. The effect partly even surpassed the effectiveness of simple ventilation by opening the windows.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>In addition to social distancing and wearing highly efficient face masks, the use air filters is recommended. This measure could enable classroom teaching to be resumed.</p>","PeriodicalId":43038,"journal":{"name":"Zentralblatt fur Arbeitsmedizin Arbeitsschutz und Ergonomie","volume":"71 5","pages":"205-212"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40664-021-00435-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10629041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Validität faseranalytischer Verfahren in der Diagnostik asbestbedingter Berufskrankheiten","authors":"X. Baur, J. Schneider","doi":"10.1007/s40664-020-00416-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40664-020-00416-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43038,"journal":{"name":"Zentralblatt fur Arbeitsmedizin Arbeitsschutz und Ergonomie","volume":"95 1","pages":"128 - 143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81946668","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":"Eine kritische Untersuchung arbeitsschutzbezogener Lehrinhalte in Lehrbüchern metalltechnischer Ausbildungsberufe","authors":"A. Kahl, Carolin Frank, R. Erlebach","doi":"10.1007/s40664-020-00414-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40664-020-00414-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43038,"journal":{"name":"Zentralblatt fur Arbeitsmedizin Arbeitsschutz und Ergonomie","volume":"18 1","pages":"86-96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91263310","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":"Tödliche Arbeitsunfälle im Handel und in der Warenlogistik","authors":"K. Schäfer, Jörg Mahlberg, Hans-Christoph Klockmann","doi":"10.1007/s40664-020-00415-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40664-020-00415-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43038,"journal":{"name":"Zentralblatt fur Arbeitsmedizin Arbeitsschutz und Ergonomie","volume":"201 2 1","pages":"97 - 108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75973915","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}