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Incidence of cardiovascular disease in a cohort of mine workers exposed to ultrafine aluminum powder in Ontario, Canada 加拿大安大略省接触超细铝粉的矿工群组中心血管疾病的发病率。
IF 2.7 3区 医学
American journal of industrial medicine Pub Date : 2024-08-23 DOI: 10.1002/ajim.23646
Andrew Zarnke PhD, Sarah Rhodes PhD, Nathan DeBono PhD, Colin Berriault MA, Sandra C. Dorman PhD
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Authors' response to “Resting diffusing capacity and severity of radiographic disease predict gas exchange abnormalities with exercise in former US coal miners” 科恩等人回应。
IF 2.7 3区 医学
American journal of industrial medicine Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI: 10.1002/ajim.23649
Robert A. Cohen, Leonard H. T. Go, Lee Friedman, Lauren M. Zell-Baran, Cecile S. Rose, Kirsten S. Almberg
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Re: Cohen et al. Resting diffusing capacity and severity of radiographic disease predict gas exchange abnormalities with exercise in former US coal miners Re:Cohen等人.静态弥散能力和放射病的严重程度可预测前美国煤矿工人运动时的气体交换异常。
IF 2.7 3区 医学
American journal of industrial medicine Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI: 10.1002/ajim.23648
Albert Miller MD
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Pre-task planning for construction worker safety and health: Implementation and assessment. 建筑工人安全与健康的任务前规划:实施与评估。
IF 2.7 3区 医学
American journal of industrial medicine Pub Date : 2024-08-10 DOI: 10.1002/ajim.23647
Babak Memarian, Sara B Brooks, Jean Christophe Le
{"title":"Pre-task planning for construction worker safety and health: Implementation and assessment.","authors":"Babak Memarian, Sara B Brooks, Jean Christophe Le","doi":"10.1002/ajim.23647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ajim.23647","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Compared to other industry sectors, construction workers experience a disproportionately high rate of occupational injuries and fatalities. As research findings suggest, most of these incidents could be prevented if hazards were proactively recognized and properly addressed. In the construction industry, pre-task planning (PTP) is a preventive process intended to describe each step of work, identify associated safety and health hazards, and recommend controls to eliminate or mitigate the hazards before work begins. Despite its importance, the construction industry lacks comprehensive guidelines to design and implement PTP in a consistent and effective manner. To fill this gap, this study pursued two objectives: (1) identify shortcomings in current PTP practices and explore recommended solutions from practitioners' perspectives and (2) translate research findings into an applied tool to help practitioners assess and improve the quality of their PTP process.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>To fill the gap, 28 construction safety and health professionals and 104 workers were interviewed, and seven onsite PTP sessions were directly observed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Shortcomings of current PTP practices as well as recommended solutions were categorized as (1) planning and implementation, (2) all-trades coordination, (3) engagement and buy-in, (4) training and logistics, (5) workforce diversity and the language barrier, and (6) PTP content accessibility.</p><p><strong>Discussion/conclusions: </strong>An effective PTP process should be based on workers' direct involvement and input on task requirements and hazards. It needs to be regularly updated to reflect the changing work conditions. In addition to task-related information, to increase workers' awareness, PTP should paint a holistic view of the project and other trades' scopes.</p>","PeriodicalId":7873,"journal":{"name":"American journal of industrial medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141911378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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COVID-19 deaths in dental occupations and other healthcare occupations among U.S. decedents in 2020 COVID-19 2020 年美国死者中牙科职业和其他医疗保健职业的死亡人数。
IF 2.7 3区 医学
American journal of industrial medicine Pub Date : 2024-08-09 DOI: 10.1002/ajim.23645
Brie Hawley Blackley MS, PhD, Ethan D. Fechter-Leggett DVM, MPVM, Talia Alexander MS, Fotinos Panagakos DMD, PhD, Tammy Chipps DDS, Jean M. Cox-Ganser PhD
{"title":"COVID-19 deaths in dental occupations and other healthcare occupations among U.S. decedents in 2020","authors":"Brie Hawley Blackley MS, PhD,&nbsp;Ethan D. Fechter-Leggett DVM, MPVM,&nbsp;Talia Alexander MS,&nbsp;Fotinos Panagakos DMD, PhD,&nbsp;Tammy Chipps DDS,&nbsp;Jean M. Cox-Ganser PhD","doi":"10.1002/ajim.23645","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ajim.23645","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Background</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Early studies during the COVID-19 pandemic suggested dental occupations were among the highest risk for exposure to SARs-CoV-2 because of multiple factors increasing exposure, including close proximity to unmasked patients and performance of aerosol-generating procedures. However, to date, few studies have investigated COVID-19 deaths in United States dental occupations, and compared COVID-19 deaths among healthcare occupations.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>We analyzed 2020 mortality data collected by the National Center for Health Statistics' National Vital Statistics System. Multivariable logistic regression was used to generate odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals for COVID-19 as the underlying cause of death in relation to occupation in working-age decedents (≤65 years), after adjusting for age, sex, race/ethnicity, education, and medical conditions associated with severe COVID-19.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Dental occupations did not have significantly higher risk for COVID-19 death when compared to all other occupations combined. Among healthcare occupations with frequent, direct patient- or client interactions, LPNs and LVNs, and speech and language pathologists had significantly elevated adjusted ORs for COVID-19 death when compared to dentists, dental hygienists, or dental assistants. Similarly, nurse practitioners had significantly higher ORs for COVID-19 mortality than dentists or dental hygienists, and approached significance when compared to dental assistants. Conversely, massage therapists and other health diagnosing and treating practitioners had significantly lower adjusted ORs for COVID-19 death compared with dental occupations.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Our study highlights potential differences in work-related transmission of SARs-CoV-2 and subsequent COVID-19 deaths in healthcare occupations, and furthers a previously limited understanding of COVID-19 deaths in healthcare occupations in 2020, before COVID-19 vaccine availability. Our results indicate that dental occupations were not among the highest, nor lowest risk, healthcare occupations for COVID-19 deaths in 2020, despite their known risks of direct exposure.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":7873,"journal":{"name":"American journal of industrial medicine","volume":"67 10","pages":"920-932"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141905627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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A method to assess bullying and harassment as an upstream determinant of construction worker mental health. 作为建筑工人心理健康上游决定因素的欺凌和骚扰评估方法。
IF 2.7 3区 医学
American journal of industrial medicine Pub Date : 2024-08-08 DOI: 10.1002/ajim.23644
Cora Roelofs, Chris Rodman, Amber Trueblood, Chris T Cain
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Burden and social distribution of occupational psychosocial exposures in the United States workforce, 2022 2022 年美国劳动力职业社会心理暴露的负担和社会分布。
IF 2.7 3区 医学
American journal of industrial medicine Pub Date : 2024-08-06 DOI: 10.1002/ajim.23641
Shelley C. Stephan-Recaido MS, Trevor K. Peckham MS, MPA, PhD, Devan Hawkins PhD, Marissa G. Baker PhD
{"title":"Burden and social distribution of occupational psychosocial exposures in the United States workforce, 2022","authors":"Shelley C. Stephan-Recaido MS,&nbsp;Trevor K. Peckham MS, MPA, PhD,&nbsp;Devan Hawkins PhD,&nbsp;Marissa G. Baker PhD","doi":"10.1002/ajim.23641","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ajim.23641","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Objective</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>To characterize the burden and social distribution of occupational psychosocial exposures in the United States (US).</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>We merged 2022 US employment and demographic data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) with occupational characteristic data from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET), wage data from the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics Survey, and hours worked from the CPS, to estimate the number and proportion of US workers at risk of exposure to 19 psychosocial hazards. We additionally estimated the number and proportion of US workers over- or underrepresented in exposure burden.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Of the exposures examined, US workers were most commonly employed in occupations with high time pressure (67.5 million US workers exposed; 43.2% US workers exposed), high emotional labor (57.1 million; 36.6%), and low wages (47.8 million; 30.6%). The burden of exposures was uneven across sociodemographic strata, attributable to occupational segregation. The full data set is available online at https://deohs.washington.edu/us-exposure-burden.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusions</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Work-related psychosocial exposures are ubiquitous and should be considered in occupational and public health research, policy, and interventions to reduce the burden of disease and health inequities in the United States.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":7873,"journal":{"name":"American journal of industrial medicine","volume":"67 10","pages":"888-900"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141892664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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Occupational inequalities in mortality from cardiovascular disease, 2020–2021 2020-2021 年心血管疾病死亡率的职业不平等。
IF 2.7 3区 医学
American journal of industrial medicine Pub Date : 2024-08-06 DOI: 10.1002/ajim.23643
Devan Hawkins, Karina Thomas, Paul Landsbergis
{"title":"Occupational inequalities in mortality from cardiovascular disease, 2020–2021","authors":"Devan Hawkins,&nbsp;Karina Thomas,&nbsp;Paul Landsbergis","doi":"10.1002/ajim.23643","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ajim.23643","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Background</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In recent years previous declines in cardiovascular disease (CVD) have stalled. There are occupational risk factors for CVD mortality. This study seeks to examine inequalities in CVD mortality for working-age adults in the United States by occupation.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Death certificate data for CVD deaths were obtained from the National Center for Health Statistics. Occupation data from these death certificates were coded to major occupation groups. Using information about the number of workers employed in these occupations obtained from the American Community Survey, we calculated mortality rates and rate ratios (RRs), adjusted for covariates associated with CVD mortality.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>After adjusting for age, sex, race/ethnicity, and educational attainment, workers in 11 occupations had significantly elevated RRs: food preparation and serving; construction and extraction; arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media; life, physical, and social science; farming, fishing, and forestry; legal; protective services; building and grounds cleaning and maintenance; healthcare practitioners and technical; personal care and service; and community and social services.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusions</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Occupation appears to be a significant predictor of CVD mortality. Further research is needed to assess how occupational risk factors contribute to changing trends for CVD mortality. Interventions are needed to address workplace risk factors for CVD.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":7873,"journal":{"name":"American journal of industrial medicine","volume":"67 10","pages":"910-919"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141892665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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Association between longest-held occupation and mortality risk 从事职业时间最长与死亡风险之间的关系。
IF 2.7 3区 医学
American journal of industrial medicine Pub Date : 2024-07-31 DOI: 10.1002/ajim.23642
Abay Asfaw PhD, Anasua Bhattacharya PhD
{"title":"Association between longest-held occupation and mortality risk","authors":"Abay Asfaw PhD,&nbsp;Anasua Bhattacharya PhD","doi":"10.1002/ajim.23642","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ajim.23642","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Background</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Occupation is associated with a large part of daily activities, affecting lifestyle and social status. However, limited research exists on the association between longest-held occupation (LHO) and early mortality. We examine if LHO is associated with mortality risk among US adults 51 years of age and older.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Using Health and Retirement Study data from 1992 to 2020, we followed 26,758 respondents 51 years of age and older for up to 29 years. We used competing-risks analysis methodology to estimate the risk of mortality.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Across the average 20.5 follow-up years, women with LHO in the categories of machine operators (subhazard ratio [SHR]: 1.42), food preparation (SHR: 1.39), handlers and helpers (SHR: 1.35), and sales (SHR: 1.15), were more likely to die earlier than women with the LHO in the professional and technical support occupation, the reference occupation. Men with LHO in the categories of food preparation (SHR: 1.43), machine operators (SHR: 1.36), personal services (SHR: 1.34), handlers and helpers (SHR: 1.32), protective services (SHR: 1.31), clerical (SHR: 1.27), farming and fishing (SHR: 1.26), sales (SHR: 1.23), and precision production (SHR: 1.20) had elevated risks of mortality compared to men whose LHO was in the referent professional and technical support occupation.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusions</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Findings from this study provide comprehensive and current evidence that occupation can be one of the risk factors for adverse health outcomes and ultimately for early mortality.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":7873,"journal":{"name":"American journal of industrial medicine","volume":"67 10","pages":"901-909"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141858760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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 impact of regulatory workplace safety inspections on workers' compensation claim rates 监管性工作场所安全检查对工伤索赔率的影响。
IF 2.7 3区 医学
American journal of industrial medicine Pub Date : 2024-07-25 DOI: 10.1002/ajim.23640
Christopher B. McLeod PhD, Robert A. Macpherson PhD, Ailin He PhD, Benjamin C. Amick III, PhD, Mieke Koehoorn PhD, Emile Tompa PhD
{"title":"The impact of regulatory workplace safety inspections on workers' compensation claim rates","authors":"Christopher B. McLeod PhD,&nbsp;Robert A. Macpherson PhD,&nbsp;Ailin He PhD,&nbsp;Benjamin C. Amick III, PhD,&nbsp;Mieke Koehoorn PhD,&nbsp;Emile Tompa PhD","doi":"10.1002/ajim.23640","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ajim.23640","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Background</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Studies on the impact of workplace safety inspections on work injuries have found mixed effectiveness. Most studies are from the United States, examining Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) regulatory inspections in manufacturing firms with more than 10 employees. This study examines whether regulatory inspections in Alberta, Canada, result in reductions in workers' compensation claims rates for inspected firms relative to comparable non-inspected firms.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Firm and claim-level data from the Workers' Compensation Board of Alberta were linked with regulatory enforcement data from the Government of Alberta for construction, manufacturing, and transportation firms with at least one full-time employee for 37 consecutive months. A matched difference-in-differences study design was used to estimate changes in lost-time claim rates for work-related injuries and musculoskeletal diseases of inspected and comparable non-inspected firms between the year pre-inspection and 2 years, post-inspection, controlling for firm-level characteristics.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Inspections were not effective in reducing firm-level claim rates, with the exception of transportation firms with more than one inspection experiencing a 28% decrease in their claim rate in the second year post-inspection, relative to the change in non-inspected firms. In construction, inspected firms experienced a 12% increase in their claim rate in the first year post-inspection. No effect was observed in the manufacturing sector.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusions</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Regulatory workplace safety inspections in Alberta generally do not result in greater reductions in firm-level claim rates in the construction, manufacturing, and transportation sectors. Inspections alone may not be sufficient to induce compliance or hazard management changes that lead to reductions in firm-level injuries.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":7873,"journal":{"name":"American journal of industrial medicine","volume":"67 10","pages":"877-887"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ajim.23640","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141756688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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