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Assessment of hand-arm vibration syndrome in Polish workers: results from a questionnaire study.

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International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics Pub Date : 2025-03-12 DOI: 10.1080/10803548.2025.2471669

Elżbieta Łastowiecka-Moras

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Postural factors contributing to reaching speed and accuracy.

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International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics Pub Date : 2025-03-10 DOI: 10.1080/10803548.2025.2466919

Nicole J Chimera, Sarah Bohunicky, Cheryl Glazebrook, Trisha Scribbans

{"title":"Postural factors contributing to reaching speed and accuracy.","authors":"Nicole J Chimera, Sarah Bohunicky, Cheryl Glazebrook, Trisha Scribbans","doi":"10.1080/10803548.2025.2466919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10803548.2025.2466919","url":null,"abstract":"Objectives. Occupational reaching tasks performed with faulty postures may contribute to inefficient movement patterns that could lead to injury. Understanding relationships between posture and muscle activation during reaching tasks may elucidate movement patterns that increase occupational injury risk in workers. This study assessed whether postural factors and muscle activation predict forward reaching movement performance and accuracy. Methods. Predictor variables of forward shoulder posture (FSP), pectoral length, upper (UT), middle (MT) and lower trapezius (LT) and pectoralis major (PM) muscle activation, and UT:PM, MT:PM, and LT:PM co-activation during forward reaching were analysed for 56 individuals. Sequential linear regression equations assessed reaching variance. Results. For females, FSP, UT activation, and UT:PM co-activation explained 36% of reaction time (RT) variance, and MT:PM co-activation explained 14% of endpoint accuracy variance. For males, MT:PM co-activation explained 17% of movement time (MvT) variance, and FSP, MT:PM co-activation and MT explained 23% of accuracy variance. Conclusion. Increased co-activation was a predictor of movement performance; however, performance outcome variables differed between males (MvT) and females (RT). Muscle co-activation coupled with FSP and posterior shoulder muscle activation resulted in differences in predicting reaching performance variance. Practitioners might consider evaluating these muscle activation and postural factors in occupational reaching tasks.Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT04944745.","PeriodicalId":47704,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics","volume":" ","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143587696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Awareness of rights and responsibilities in occupational accidents and diseases: scale development, construct validity and reliability study.

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International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics Pub Date : 2025-03-10 DOI: 10.1080/10803548.2025.2465157

Umut Solmaz, Orhan Koçak

{"title":"Awareness of rights and responsibilities in occupational accidents and diseases: scale development, construct validity and reliability study.","authors":"Umut Solmaz, Orhan Koçak","doi":"10.1080/10803548.2025.2465157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10803548.2025.2465157","url":null,"abstract":"Objectives. This study aimed to develop a measurement tool to assess employees' awareness of their rights and responsibilities before and after a potential occupational accident and disease. Methods. The study used a quantitative research method and was conducted with factory workers in the production sector in Sakarya province between April and December 2023. Firstly, scope validity was performed to develop the scale. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was then conducted for construct validity. The scale's reliability was determined using the Cronbach α internal consistency coefficient. In CFA, all goodness-of-fit indices confirmed the acceptable fit of the model: root mean square error of approximation (rmsea) = 0.080, normalized fit index (NFI = 0.925), comparative fit index (CFI = 0.950), standardized root mean square residual (SRMR = 0.044), χ2 fit index (χ2 / df = 2.800), Tucker-Lewis index (TLI = 0.944). Conclusion. The occupational accident and disease awareness scale is a valid and reliable instrument for assessing employees' awareness of rights and responsibilities in occupational accidents and diseases.","PeriodicalId":47704,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics","volume":" ","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143587689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Handgrip strength and endurance in female healthcare professional workers.

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International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics Pub Date : 2025-03-10 DOI: 10.1080/10803548.2025.2470010

Trajkov Marija, Milošević Miloš, Kukić Filip, Šimpraga Ljiljana, Dopsaj Milivoj, Ćuk Ivan

{"title":"Handgrip strength and endurance in female healthcare professional workers.","authors":"Trajkov Marija, Milošević Miloš, Kukić Filip, Šimpraga Ljiljana, Dopsaj Milivoj, Ćuk Ivan","doi":"10.1080/10803548.2025.2470010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10803548.2025.2470010","url":null,"abstract":"Objectives. The first aim of this study was to examine the differences between dominant and non-dominant hand and finger muscle contractile abilities. The secondary aim was to assess the relationship between variables used in assessing healthcare workers' hand and finger muscle contractile abilities. Methods. The study included 129 healthcare women who performed handgrip strength and endurance tests. Quantitative data on the maximum force, time to maximum force, time to maximum rate of force development, the rate of force development and the time of endurance in force, expressed as the force impulse, were measured. Results. The t test for paired samples showed significant differences between dominant and non-dominant hands in maximum force and rate of force development. The factorial analysis revealed three main components. Contractile force included maximum force and rate of force development, neural speed included time to maximum force and time to rate of force development, while neuro-muscular endurance included endurance of the non-dominant and dominant hands. Conclusion. The results of this research show that it is essential to continue to assess variables from all three components of the resulting model in future research and clinical practice, regardless of the hand tested.","PeriodicalId":47704,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics","volume":" ","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143587691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Evaluating the performance of the outer layer of extreme heat protective clothing using different woven structures.

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International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1080/10803548.2025.2468156

Rochak Rathour, Md Jawad Ibn Amin, Md Azharul Islam, Apurba Das, Ramasamy Alagirusamy

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Water vapour transmission behaviour of the outer layer of multilayer thermal protective clothing.

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International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1080/10803548.2025.2456370

Sudhanshu Maurya, Rochak Rathour, Apurba Das, Ramasamy Alagirusamy

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Analyzing musculoskeletal risk prevalence among railway track maintainers: an analysis of health risk assessment in India.

IF 1.6 4区医学

International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1080/10803548.2025.2468157

Banibrata Das, Somnath Gangopadhyay

{"title":"Analyzing musculoskeletal risk prevalence among railway track maintainers: an analysis of health risk assessment in India.","authors":"Banibrata Das, Somnath Gangopadhyay","doi":"10.1080/10803548.2025.2468157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10803548.2025.2468157","url":null,"abstract":"Objectives. Railway track maintenance is one of the essential tasks for the Indian railway, where millions of workers have musculoskeletal disorders. The main aim of the present investigation is to determine the prevalence of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs). Methods. Nordic modified questionnaire studies and posture analysis were performed by the Ovako working posture analyzing system. Physiological stress assessment was carried out by recording the participants' heart rate and blood pressure. Results. The questionnaire study revealed that most of the railway track maintainers complained that the maximum discomfort (pain) felt was in the lower back region (90.3%) of the body, followed by the hands (76.4%), knees (76.0%), wrists (75.2%) and shoulders (68.2%). There was a significant change in heart rate reserve, net cardiac cost, relative cardiac cost and cardiovascular stress index between the railway track maintainers and controls. Conclusion. This study shows that railway track maintainers are constantly engaged in highly repetitive hand-intensive jobs, and by performing such strenuous jobs for several years suffer from discomfort in the upper and lower back regions of the body followed by a decrease in handgrip strength. All of these factors consequently may lead to the development of WMSDs.","PeriodicalId":47704,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics","volume":" ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143568531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The prevalence of work-related musculoskeletal system pain in teachers and its relationship with work stress.

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International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1080/10803548.2025.2465028

Habip Balsak, Fatma Ayhan, İbrahim Gün, Mehmet Veysi Velioğlu

{"title":"The prevalence of work-related musculoskeletal system pain in teachers and its relationship with work stress.","authors":"Habip Balsak, Fatma Ayhan, İbrahim Gün, Mehmet Veysi Velioğlu","doi":"10.1080/10803548.2025.2465028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10803548.2025.2465028","url":null,"abstract":"Objectives. The purpose of this research was to determine the prevalence and severity of entire-body musculoskeletal system pain (MSSP) in teachers and its association with work stress. Methods. The sample in this descriptive, cross-sectional research consisted of 437 teachers. Research data were collected using a sociodemographic information form, the Cornell musculoskeletal discomfort scale and the work stress scale (WSS). Data were analyzed using SPSS version 23. Results. The most prevalent MSSPs observed in the 20 body regions of the teachers in the study, a profession involving high work-related pain levels, were in the lumbar, neck and back regions. Each one-unit increase in teachers' WSS scores increased the likelihood of work-related lumbar pain by 6% (prevalance ratio [PR] 1.06; 95% confidence interval [CI] [1.04, 1.12]), of neck pain by 11% (PR 1.11; 95% CI [1.08, 1.16]) and of back pain by 8% (PR 1.08; 95% CI [1.05, 1.14]). A significant positive correlation was observed between MSSP scores in the 20 body regions and WSS scores. Conclusions. MSSP is a widespread occupational health problem, and work stress is a cause of significant MSSP in the body as a whole and particularly in the lumbar, neck and back regions.","PeriodicalId":47704,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics","volume":" ","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143568536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Analyzing exposure risks in warehousing due to the presence of phthalate contamination. 分析仓库中因邻苯二甲酸盐污染而产生的接触风险。

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International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics Pub Date : 2025-03-03 DOI: 10.1080/10803548.2024.2444141

Gladys Bonilla-Enriquez, Santiago-Omar Caballero-Morales

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Prevalence of chronic musculoskeletal pain among different occupational groups of a large German chemical company: results of a cross-sectional study.

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International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics Pub Date : 2025-03-03 DOI: 10.1080/10803548.2025.2461911

Bärbel Holzwarth, Stefan Webendörfer, Matthias Claus

{"title":"Prevalence of chronic musculoskeletal pain among different occupational groups of a large German chemical company: results of a cross-sectional study.","authors":"Bärbel Holzwarth, Stefan Webendörfer, Matthias Claus","doi":"10.1080/10803548.2025.2461911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10803548.2025.2461911","url":null,"abstract":"Objectives. This study aimed to examine the prevalence of chronic musculoskeletal pain among employees of a large German chemical company and how it varies depending on occupational group. Methods. Cross-sectional data were collected between 2019 and 2022 during a voluntary occupational health check-up, including a written questionnaire. Chronic musculoskeletal pain was defined as lasting at least 3 months in the past year. Occupational group was operationalized either by self-reported work area or by the International Standard Classification of Occupations 2008 (ISCO-08). Associations between occupational group and chronic musculoskeletal pain were analyzed using robust Poisson regression. Results. The final sample included 13,705 employees. The 12-month prevalence of chronic musculoskeletal pain was 18.6% for the whole sample, and 22.0, 21.9, 20.2 and 15.0% for employees in the work areas other, office, research/laboratory and production/craft, respectively. Regression analyses showed that the prevalence was 24.1% (p < 0.001) lower for employees in production/craft and 11.2% (p < 0.05) lower for employees in research/laboratory compared to office employees in the fully adjusted model. Conclusions. The high prevalence of chronic musculoskeletal pain underscores the importance of both the prevention and management of chronic musculoskeletal pain. Thereby, workplace-specific needs-based offerings could play an important role.","PeriodicalId":47704,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics","volume":" ","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143542880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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