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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"workplace hazards"”.
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Personal Protective Clothing: Law Enforcement Officers’ Attitudes and Safety Behavior Assessments Toward High-Visibility Safety Apparel
… related fatalities are one of the most common workplace hazards in the law enforcement community. They accounted for approximately 44% of all fatalities within the law enforcement occupational field between 2002 and 2011. Although many law enforcement officers’ deaths are due to being struck by …
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Novel Energy Efficient Electrohydraulic Steer-By-Wire Technology
… and increased awareness to the environment and workplace hazards. A major breakthrough in the realm of high power motion control is pump displacement controlled (DC) actuation, which does away with hydraulic valves for motion control and uses a variable displacement pump as both a flow source …
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Enhancing Computational Thinking Skills of the Future Construction Workforce to Perform Sensor Data Analytics with End-User Programming Environment
… to struggle with declining productivity, workplace hazards, and a growing shortage of skilled workers. In response to these challenges, the construction industry is leveraging advanced sensing technologies and data-driven analytical methods that can significantly improve information …
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Multiscalar Toxicities: Mapping Environmental Injustice in and Beyond the Nail Salon
… temporal and spatial scales from bodies to workplaces to homes to communities as well as across generations. This work centers the nail salon a site of potential environmental and occupational health harms due to routine exposure to toxicants, labour exploitation, and verbal and other …
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Obstructive Lung Disease among tobacco farmers in Malawi
… and aim Tobacco farmers are exposed to toxic workplace hazards such as nicotine and pesticides in addition to known agriculture related hazards like dust, and ergonomic factors. Nicotine and pesticide exposure have been linked to the development of chronic respiratory diseases. This study was …
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The Influence of the physical underground workplace conditions on the production at a deep level gold mine
The general aim of this research study was to determine whether the physical underground conditions have an influence on the production output at a deep-level gold mine. This type of study has never been conducted within this particular environment, and, as such, a valuable contribution could be …