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Workers’ health and safety in the heat: current practice in Australian workplaces 高温下工人的健康和安全：澳大利亚工作场所的现行做法

Policy and Practice in Health and Safety Pub Date : 2020-05-19 DOI: 10.1080/14773996.2020.1765610

Susan Williams, B. Varghese, A. Hansen, S. Hanson-Easey, P. Bi, D. Pisaniello

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引用次数: 4

The development and trial of systematic visual search: a visual inspection method designed to improve current workplace risk assessment practice 系统视觉搜索的开发和试验:一种旨在改进当前工作场所风险评估实践的视觉检查方法

Policy and Practice in Health and Safety Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/14773996.2019.1708615

V. Hrymak, J. D. de Vries

引用次数: 5

Using in-Vehicle Data Monitors to Reduce Risky Driving among Sales Representatives 使用车载数据监视器减少销售代表的风险驾驶

Policy and Practice in Health and Safety Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/14773996.2019.1667094

M. Sullman

引用次数: 2

Why copied or transposed safety, health and well-being legislation and standards are impracticable and irrelevant in developing economies 为什么在发展中经济体中，复制或改变安全、健康和福利立法和标准是不切实际和无关紧要的

Policy and Practice in Health and Safety Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/14773996.2019.1667095

N. Umeokafor

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引用次数: 7

Relationship of travel distances on total evacuation time among secondary students in Malaysia 马来西亚中学生出行距离与总疏散时间的关系

Policy and Practice in Health and Safety Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/14773996.2019.1708636

Hairul Nazmin Nasruddin, M. R. Baharudin, Anita Abdul Rahman, Mohd Razif Mahadi, S. B. MOHD NOOR, Mohd Reduan Mahmood

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引用次数: 0

Nudging construction workers towards better sun-safety behaviour: summary of the evidence for practitioners 推动建筑工人采取更好的防晒行为:从业人员的证据摘要

Policy and Practice in Health and Safety Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/14773996.2019.1708614

A. Nioi, C. Wendelboe-Nelson, S. Cowan, M. Cherrie, S. Rashid, H. Cowie, Alice Davis, P. Ritchie, T. Lansdown, J. Cherrie

引用次数: 4

Prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders in firefighters and its association with insomnia 消防员肌肉骨骼疾病的患病率及其与失眠的关系

Policy and Practice in Health and Safety Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/14773996.2019.1708613

M. Abbasi, S. Jalilolghadr, M. Soltanabadi, Z. Yazdi

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引用次数: 5

The experience of healthcare staff of incident reporting with respect to venous blood specimen collection practices’ 医务人员静脉血标本采集实践事故报告的经验

Policy and Practice in Health and Safety Pub Date : 2019-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/14773996.2019.1640963

Lina Gyllencreutz, Ida Pedersen, Elisabeth Enarsson, B. Saveman, Karin Bölenius

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引用次数: 1

‘All theory is gray … but forever green is the tree of life’ “所有的理论都是灰色的……但生命之树永远是绿色的。”

Policy and Practice in Health and Safety Pub Date : 2019-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/14773996.2019.1662220

P. Waterson

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引用次数: 0

Workplace health and safety (WHS) implications for farmers hosting unconventional gas (UG) exploration & production 工作场所健康和安全(WHS)对从事非常规天然气(UG)勘探和生产的农民的影响

Policy and Practice in Health and Safety Pub Date : 2019-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/14773996.2019.1649903

Shay Dougall

引用次数: 1