Top Research Papers on Occupational Health and Safety

This research provides foundation for construction project practitioners to adopt more socially oriented approaches towards promoting learning-rich organizational contexts to overcome variation in the OHS and move beyond the current plateau reached in safety statistics.

This Viewpoint discusses the importance of preventive measures and supplies to reduce workplace COVID-19 transmission and calls for the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration to take action.

This paper presents the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health's Future of Work Initiative, and suggests an integrated approach to address worker safety, health, and well-being; introduces priority topics and subtopics that confer a framework for upcoming future of work research directions and resultant practical applications.

Bibliometric and content-based analysis methods are used to review the previous attempts in related fields and present the current research status in this field and clarify the major limitations and challenges from both technical and practical perspectives, in turn suggesting the direction of future research.

The developed HOHSRAM is verified to be beneficial for safety professionals by providing them with an inclusive ranking system, improving the well-being of the involved CWs.

Examples of workplace productivity wearables for asset tracking, augmented reality, gesture and motion control, brain wave sensing, and work stress management highlight the ground‐level benefits of real‐time visibility about frontline workers, work environment, distributed assets, workforce efficiency, and safety compliance.

Adverse events were identified in nearly one in four admissions, and approximately one fourth of the events were preventable, underscore the importance of patient safety and the need for continuing improvement.

Impact of environmental exposure to heavy metals on female fertility is a well-known fact, and the underlying mechanisms must be explained and periodically updated, given the growing evidence on the influence of increasing environmental heavy metal load onFemale fertility.

Science-based evidence informing the policy about the efficaciousness and possible adverse effects of these measures are urgently needed, as there is a lack of both data and insight into the mechanisms of the pandemic.

This study explores the relationship between the adoption of industrial robots and workplace injuries. Using establishment-level data on injuries, we find that a one standard deviation increase in our commuting zone-level measure of robot exposure reduces work-related annual injury rates by approximately 1.2 cases per 100 workers. US commuting zones more exposed to robot penetration experience a significant increase in drug- or alcohol-related deaths and mental health problems. Employing longitudinal data from Germany, we exploit within-individual changes in robot exposure and document that a ...

It is argued for a need to include artificial intelligence developers and systems safety engineers in assessments of moral accountability for patient harm and to move from a static to a dynamic model of assurance, accepting that considerations of safety are not fully resolvable during the design of the artificial intelligence system before the system has been deployed.

The findings show that mental health crises are apparent in a non‐negligible minority of conversations with users; companion AIs are often unable to recognize, and respond appropriately to, signs of distress; and consumers display negative reactions to unhelpful and risky chatbot responses, highlighting emerging reputational risks for generative AI companies.

This review provides an update on the effects of Cd exposure on the soil-plant system, food safety, and human health, focusing on the various mechanisms involved in cellular or molecular alterations.

The construction industry is known both for its significance in economic growth and its hazardous nature. The accidents on construction sites not only cause fatalities but also affect project performance severely in term of delayed completion, cost overruns, reduced quality and eventually low productivity. Statistically, poor safety performance is the main cause of the accident on sites due to the number of influencing factors. To improve safety performance, it is inevitable to investigate potential factors involved in safety management. This is a working paper and examines the relative import...

MXenes are a novel family of two-dimensional (2D) materials that are fast gaining popularity due to their versatile characteristics. The surfaces of these materials are often functionalized by negatively charged terminal groups, such as O, OH, and F during their synthesis, and it has been hypothesized that regulating the surface terminators enables to control the material characteristics. However, there is still a large gap between computational and experimental investigations regarding comprehending the surface functional groups. Surfaces with mixed terminations are consistently synthesized i...

In modern days, rapid urbanisation, climatic abnormalities, water scarcity and quality degradation vis-à-vis the increasing demand for food to feed the growing population necessitate a more efficient agriculture production system. In this context, farming with zeolites, hydrated naturally occurring aluminosilicates found in sedimentary rocks, which are ubiquitous and environment friendly, has attracted attention in the recent past owing to multidisciplinary benefits accrued from them in agricultural activities. The use of these minerals as soil ameliorants facilitates the improvement of soil’s...

The aim of the review was to present information related to lactic acid bacteria, the new classification and perspectives on industrial applications with a special emphasis on food safety and human health.

How ethnic minority populations are conceptualised in the international literature, and the implications of this in shaping of the findings are established; the evidence of patient safety events arising among ethnic minority healthcare consumers internationally; and the individual, service and system factors that contribute to unsafe care are established.

The aim of the present review is to compare the contents of essential minerals as well as potential toxic minerals in 14 main edible seaweeds that have availability of biomass from harvest and aquaculture to establish their safety in foods and contributions to the Recommended Dietary Allowance and adequate intake values.

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