Dec 30, 2024 · OEM is an international peer reviewed journal that publishes high quality research relating to the full range of chemical, physical, ergonomic, biological and psychosocial hazards in the workplace and to environmental contaminants and their health effects.

Results After restriction to probable and definite exposure, and application of a 5 year lag, 12.5% of cases and 11.8% of controls were ever exposed to asbestos (OR=1.1, 95% CI 0.9–1.3). For duration of exposure, there was no increase in risk of overall prostate cancer in the lower tertiles of exposure but risk was elevated in the upper tertile (OR=1.6, 95% CI 1.2–2.2).

Objectives To investigate employment in an occupation or industry and specific occupational exposures in relation to ovarian cancer risk. Methods In a population-based case–control study conducted in Montreal, Canada (2011–2016), lifetime occupational histories were collected for 491 cases of ovarian cancer and 897 controls. An industrial hygienist coded the occupation and industry of each ...

Introduction. Shift work is an essential element of modern labour which has been used increasingly in a broad variety of occupational settings in recent years.1 From an economic point of view, shift work is fundamental to ensure cost efficiency by operating machinery continuously in numerous industries.2 Furthermore, public, and private services (eg, healthcare and law enforcement) rely ...

Objectives While most individuals physically injured at work will make a complete medical recovery, a portion of workers will experience persistent pain following their injury. This study estimated persistent pain prevalence and its association with health and return-to-work outcomes 18 months following the incidence of a disabling work-related injury. Methods We studied 1131 workers disabled ...

Introduction Job exposure matrices (JEM) for physical workload, developed in several European countries, have been utilized to examine associations between physical work demands and ill-health. However, it is unclear whether the exposure measures in these JEMs could be internationally generalizable. The aim was to construct a European JEM (EuroJEM) for physical workload to be used in ...

In this recent issue, new and interesting results regarding the effects of occupational exposure on carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) are presented.1 The data were from a nationwide cohort study that included more than two million persons born in Denmark (the largest study conducted on CTS) and used a job-exposure matrix to evaluate occupational exposures. The large size of the database was well ...

Objective It is postulated that increased load from pinch and grasp in occupational tasks increases the risk of thumb carpometacarpal (CMC1) osteoarthritis (OA). We sought to characterise the relationship between doctor-diagnosed CMC1 OA and occupation in a large working population. Methods We performed a matched case–control study using a Swedish healthcare register. We identified residents ...

Methods A quasi-Poisson regression model coupled with a distributed lag non-linear model was employed, using OHCA and meteorological data between 1 January 2007 and 31 December 2019. Reference temperature was chosen to be the temperature of minimum risk (21.4°C). Heatwaves were defined as daily average temperatures at or above a heat threshold (90th, 95th, 98th, 99th percentile of the yearly ...

2023 was the hottest year on record; 2024 is set to be even hotter. The rise in climate change-driven occupational heat stress is putting the health and livelihoods of workers at grave risk.1 2 The number of workers suffering the consequences of excessive heat is alarming. An International Labor Organization (ILO) report in 2024 has shown that at least 71% of the global working population are ...