Workplace Safety
Mostrando 25-36 de 46 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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25. Risco, vigilância e segurança sanitária: desafios à proteção da saúde. / Risk, surveillance and sanitary safety: challenges to health protection.
The phrase sanitary safety has often been mentioned in international forums, especially as related to the emerging sanitary crises. The meaning attached to such a phrase has remained obscure, as it has usually been understood as a notion. This dissertation is aimed at analyzing the notion of sanitary safety brought into the Brazilian sanitary surveillance up
Publicado em: 2006
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26. "Parada cardiorrespiratória em unidades de internação: vivências do enfermeiro" / "Cardiac arrest in medical admission unit: nurse experiences"
The cardiac arrest is an unexpected alternative in several moments, comprising a serious threaten to peoples lives, mostly of those who suffer an unwitnessed collapse and those hospitalized patients in critical state. In this study, under the light of quality research, making use of critical incident technique, 30 nurses of medical admission units of a uni
Publicado em: 2006
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27. Occupational violence complications in a hospital urgency service en Londrina - Paraná. / "Problemas de violência ocupacional em um serviço de urgência hospitalar da cidade de Londrina-Paraná"
Violence at the workplace has presented itselt as a worrying factor amongst many hospitals around the world. The aim of this study was to characterize occupational violence complications noticed by medical and nursing teams workers in a hospital urgency service. It is a descriptive and transversal study with a quantitative data approach set at the urgency wa
Publicado em: 2005
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28. UMA ABORDAGEM COMPARATIVA DAS AÇÕES EM SEGURANÇA E SAÚDE NO TRABALHO ENTRE EMPRESAS CERTIFICADAS E NÃO CERTIFICADAS PELO SISTEMA DA QUALIDADE ISO 9000
This dissertation presents a comparison between the actions in occupational health and safety of the two organizations certified by the quality system, ISO 9000 series, and two organizations non certified, through a methodology named case study. The organizations were selected with basis in information obtained by the Federal System of Labour Inspection (SFI
Publicado em: 2005
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29. Compostos carbonílicos no ar em ambientes de trabalho de carvoarias na Bahia.
The goals of the present work were: to present an analytical methodology applicable to the determination of carbonyl compounds (CC) in vapor phase, in area and personal samples collected in charcoal company workplaces; to determine the CC profile in air inhaled by charcoal workers; and to quantify the CC in vapor phase in air of workplaces and breathing zone
Publicado em: 2005
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30. Satisfação e insatisfação no ambiente de trabalho e suas formas de expressão: o caso dos servidores técnico-administrativos da Universidade Federal do Ceará / Satisfaction and dissatisfaction in the workplace and its forms of expression: the case of technical and administrative staff of the Federal University of Ceará
This study was meant to investigate the discrepancy observed among the theories of the organizational behavior which search for better work for the individuals as well as what happens, in practice, with the employees that carry out technical-administrative activities at the Federal University of Ceará. The investigation, tried to identify the factors which
Publicado em: 2005
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31. Occupational health and safety management system for construction companies. / Sistema de gestão da segurança e saúde no trabalho para empresas construtoras.
The excessive number of accidents related to the construction sector and the huge worldwide disasters broadcast by the media make the companies believe that being competitive and profitable is not enough. As such, they also shall demonstrate an ethical and responsible attitude towards health and safety in their workplace, besides dealing with environmental c
Publicado em: 2004
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32. Reducing Hazardous Cleaning Product Use: A Collaborative Effort
Workplace hazards affecting vulnerable populations of low-wage and immigrant workers present a special challenge to the practice of occupational health. Unions, Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (COSH) groups, and other organizations have developed worker-led approaches to promoting safety. Public health practitioners can provide support for these
Association of Schools of Public Health.
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33. Workplace Health Protection and Promotion through Participatory Ergonomics: An Integrated Approach
A multidisciplinary team of researchers at the Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace (CPH-NEW) developed an evidence-based approach to address three recognized challenges to workplace programs designed to improve employee health: establishing employee ownership, integrating with work organization, and sustainability. The two main in
Association of Schools of Public Health.
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34. A Conceptual Framework for Integrating Workplace Health Promotion and Occupational Ergonomics Programs
Musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, and mental health are all associated with the physical and psychosocial conditions of work, as well as with individual health behaviors. An integrated approach to workplace health-promotion programs should include attention to the work environment, especially in light of recent findings that work organization influences so-ca
Association of Schools of Public Health.
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35. Chemical dependency and drug testing in the workplace.
Urine testing for drug use in the workplace is now widespread, with the prevalence of positive drug tests in the work force being 0% to 15%. The prevalence of marijuana use is highest, and this can be reliably tested. Though it is prudent to rid the workplace of drug use, there is little scientific study on the relationship of drug use and workplace outcomes
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36. Occupational health education in the United Kingdom workplace: looking backwards and going forwards? The Industrial Health Education Society at work 1922-40.
Education on occupational medicine is a neglected area in the United Kingdom in terms of resources and staffing. Education on occupational health and safety is even more neglected and education in the workplace on occupational health is most neglected of all. 1944 saw the demise of the Industrial Health Education Society. This society had been established wi