Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Occupational diseases"”.
-
“They sent me home to die” – occupational diseases and the gold mining industry in post-apartheid South Africa
… the inadequacy of the legislative mechanism for occupational disease and injury, the potential of the Trust in providing for meaningful compensation must fall under scrutiny. The role that compensation plays in the broader context of remedial justice will therefore be analysed to consider where …
-
Compliance with international standards on compensation for occupational injuries and diseases by Zimbabwe and South Africa
… the ILO regarding the issue of compensation for occupational injuries and diseases. The terms workers compensation and employment injury benefits are frequently used interchangeably.¹³ Workers compensation is the older term, generally used originally to refer to schemes which provide benefits in …
-
A Study on the Relationship between Fire fighters’ Stress and Condition of Their Health
… perceive stress (P<.001), and those who have an occupational disease, diseases, and other disease findings indicate higher stress perception than those who don’t(P<.001). 4. With respect to the relation with condition of their health, it was revealed that those who exhibited otorhinolaryngologic, …
-
Padrões de desenvolvimento e suas consequências no processo saúde/ doença na classe trabalhadora: o caso do complexo industrial portuário de SUAPE
… aggravations to work, focusing on accidents and occupational diseases, arising from new industrial situation Northeast in the last decade. And to what extent this situation has been a way to discuss the terms that support the new development discourse, focusing on labor and social issues, also …
-
Diretrizes para implementação e elaboração de PPRA em unidade de desparafinação a solvente
… refinery, the prevention of the appearance of occupational diseases is a difficult task to of being gotten. One of the ways to provide larger safety to the workers is to eliminate or to control the work environmental risks. In Brazil, the legislation obliges the companies elaborate and keep a …
-
Caracterização da comunidade quilombola pesqueira do município de Cachoeira: uma análise sobre aspectos sociodemográfico, saúde e trabalho, Bahia, Brasil
… everyday life that potentiate the emergence of occupational diseases. Objective: To identify and describe the socioedemographic profile, the labor history of the fishing activity and the comorbidities that most affect the health of these artisanal / seafood fishermen. Methodology: This is a …
-
Application of the Traditional Epidemiological Model to Predict Occupational Injury Rates in Manufacturing Industries
… Model of disease causation in modeling occupational injury rates and the presence of occupational illness in the manufacturing industry. More specifically, this research involved use of the agent, host, and environment constructs of the Traditional Epidemiological Model to examine the …
-
Identification, elimination and reduction of barriers to the effective use of respiratory personal protective equipment
… (RPE) in the workplace to reduce and prevent occupational inhalation disease. Respiratory Protective Equipment (RPE) is widely used in industry, health, emergency response, military settings and many other applications and are in daily use by thousands of people in Australasia. The equipment …
-
Basotho and the mines : towards a history of labour migrancy, c.1890-1940
… Part III, by using the case of infectious and occupational diseases, and prostitution and commercial beer-brewing, traces and analyses the impact of the migrant labour system on Lesotho. The thesis shows how the spread to Lesotho of such diseases as syphilis and tuberculosis was directly linked …
-
Exploring occupational irritant hand dermatitis amongst healthcare workers in NHS Grampian.
Occupational irritant hand dermatitis (OIHD) is emerging as an important risk caused by or made worse by work. OIHD can cause significant and long-term health issues, and can impact on an individual's employment. Healthcare workers (HCWs) are amongst the occupations with the highest incidence rates …
-
The Relationship Between Work-Life balance of Workers and Occupational Injury and Diseases
최근의 산업구조와 근로환경의 변화로 개인 생활과 일의 경계가 모호해지면서 일과 일 이외의 영역에서 균형을 의미하는 일-생활 균형에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있으며, 특히 맞벌이 부부의 증가 및 여성의 사회적 진출 등을 바탕으로 기업의 생산성 제고, 인력 확보, 복지 차원 등의 다양한 과제로 연구되고 있다. 일-생활 균형이 주요 사회 정신적 위험 인자로 인식되면서 스트레스로 인한 영향의 연구가 활발히 이루어지고 있으나, 육체적 질병이나 직업성 손상과의 연구는 제한적이며, 우리나라에서 역시 산업 안전 보건 분야에서의 일-생활 균형 연구는 …
-
The Invisible Story: Underground Health Narratives of Women in Mining
… being exposed to highly contagious and resistant diseases that are associated with mining, which could potentially adversely affect their day-to-day lives, wellbeing and family relations. At its most analytical, it utilises Nixon’s concept of ‘slow violence’ by carefully charting the challenges …
-
A comparative analysis of instructional techniques toward long-term positive ergonomics transformation for the early career sonographer
The past two decades have demonstrated sonographer work-related musculoskeletal disorder (WRMSD) rates between 80.0 to 90.4%. A surprising revelation made by sonographers was that educators were not perceived as the primary providers of ergonomics instruction. For these reasons, a mixed methods …
-
The epidemiology of work-related musculoskeletal disorders in beauty therapists working within the hotel spa industry in the eThekwini municipality
Submitted in partial compliance with the requirements for the Master’s Degree in Technology: Chiropractic, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2017.
-
Prevalencia de síntomas osteomuculares en operadores de vehículos mecánicos del sistema integrado de transporte masivo en la ciudad de Pereira, Colombia 2016
Es alto el número de consultas que diariamente se atienden como consecuencia de lesiones osteomusculares que presentan los conductores del Sistema Integrado de Transporte Masivo, lo que conlleva a ausentismos, agotamiento, desmotivación, estrés, afectando no sólo a los trabajadores sino a las …
-
Disability Self-Assessment and Upper Quarter Muscle Balance in Females
<p><strong>Background and Purpose.</strong> This study compared upper quarter muscle balance of working female dental hygienists and non-dental hygiene females who had no history of upper quarter pathology. The upper quarter was operationally defined as the shoulder and neck region; and muscle …