Correspondence to Professor Hsien-Ho Lin, Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, National Taiwan University, 17 Xu-Zhou Road, Rm706, Taipei 100, Taiwan; hsienho{at}ntu.edu.tw Objectives ...

Background Despite the fact that labour market flexibility has resulted in an expansion of precarious employment in industrialised countries, to date there is limited empirical evidence concerning its ...

Objective To identify, appraise and synthesise studies that have examined the degree to which new workers are at an elevated risk of work-related acute injuries and musculoskeletal (MSK) injuries.

Falling asleep while driving accounts for a considerable proportion of vehicle accidents under monotonous driving conditions. Many of these accidents are related to work--for example, drivers of ...

2 Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology Program, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 3 Department of Family Medicine and ...

Introduction Coal miners in Queensland Australia have a pre-employment medical and then medical every five years. In 2015, cases of coal workers’ pneumoconiosis (CWP) were identified among ...