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It is worth 10 million working hours a year to have your toilet paper folded?
From our experience the toilet paper is folded in the bathrooms in rooms in branded hotels. We aimed to study the total time yearly spent in the world on folding hotel toilet paper. (Source: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology)
Source: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology - December 12, 2016 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Rickard Ljung, Hedvig Ljung and Harald Ljung Source Type: research

Hydrofluoric acid burns in the western Zhejiang Province of China: a 10-year epidemiological study
This study aimed to investigate the epidemiological characteristics of HF burns within this region. (Source: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology)
Source: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology - December 7, 2016 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Yuanhai Zhang, Jianfen Zhang, Xinhua Jiang, Liangfang Ni, Chunjiang Ye, Chunmao Han, Komal Sharma and Xingang Wang Source Type: research

A diagnostic bias might be a much simpler explanation for the apparently elevated risk for nasopharyngeal cancer with respect to formaldehyde
In 2009, a working group of the International Agency for Research on Cancer classified formaldehyde as carcinogenic to humans (Group 1) and concluded that formaldehyde causes cancer of the nasopharynx (NPC) an... (Source: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology)
Source: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology - December 5, 2016 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Matthias M öhner and Andrea Wendt Source Type: research

Hepatitis C among healthcare personnel: secondary data analyses of costs and trends for hepatitis C infections with occupational causes
Hepatitis C infection is a global public health issue. Chronic hepatitis C infection is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. The aim of this study is to describe the costs for occupationally-ca... (Source: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology)
Source: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology - November 24, 2016 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Claudia Westermann, Madeleine Dulon, Dana Wendeler and Albert Nienhaus Source Type: research

Prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection in healthcare workers at a hospital in Naples, Italy, a low-incidence country
Healthcare workers (HCWs) are at higher risk than the general population of contracting tuberculosis (TB). Moreover, although subjects with latent TB infection (LTBI) are asymptomatic and are not infectious, t... (Source: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology)
Source: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology - November 24, 2016 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Monica Lamberti, Mariarosaria Muoio, Antonio Arnese, Sharon Borrelli, Teresa Di Lorenzo, Elpidio Maria Garzillo, Giuseppe Signoriello, Stefania De Pascalis, Nicola Coppola and Albert Nienhaus Source Type: research

Prevalence and predictors of musculoskeletal pain among Danish fishermen – results from a cross-sectional survey
Fishermen work in a physically challenging work environment. The aim of this analysis was to estimate the prevalence and predictors of musculoskeletal pain among Danish fishermen. (Source: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology)
Source: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology - November 15, 2016 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Gabriele Berg-Beckhoff, Helle Østergaard and Jørgen Riis Jepsen Source Type: research

Use of moulded hearing protectors by child care workers - an interventional pilot study
Employees of a multi-site institution for children and adolescents started to wear moulded hearing protectors (MHPs) during working hours, as they were suffering from a high level of noise exposure. It was agr... (Source: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology)
Source: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology - November 8, 2016 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Peter Koch, Johanna Stranzinger, Jan Felix Kersten and Albert Nienhaus Source Type: research

Alternative drugs go global: possible lead and/ or mercury intoxication from imported natural health products and a need for scientifically evaluated poisoning monitoring from environmental exposures
With increases in globalization, cultural remedies from Chinese, Ayurvedic, Arab and other traditions have become more available to international consumers, offering unfamiliar “Natural Health Products” (NHP),... (Source: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology)
Source: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology - November 8, 2016 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Lygia Therese Budnik, Xaver Baur, Volker Harth and Axel Hahn Source Type: research

Work-related injuries among farmers: a cross-sectional study from rural Nepal
This study aims to identify patterns and factor... (Source: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology)
Source: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology - October 26, 2016 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Devendra Bhattarai, Suman Bahadur Singh, Dharanidhar Baral, Ram Bilakshan Sah, Shyam Sundar Budhathoki and Paras K. Pokharel Source Type: research

Imbalances in the German public health system - numbers of state-certified occupational physicians and relation to socioeconomic data
State-certified occupational physicians who work as civil servants in the Federal Republic of Germany are key players in the German Public Health system. They control i.e. the legal compliance in occupational ... (Source: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology)
Source: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology - October 12, 2016 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Christoph Gyo, Michael Boll, D örthe Brüggmann, Doris Klingelhöfer, David Quarcoo and David A. Groneberg Source Type: research

Fungal cell wall agents and bacterial lipopolysaccharide in organic dust as possible risk factors for pulmonary sarcoidosis
Composition of organic dust is very complex, involving particles of microbial, animal and plant origin. Several environmental exposure studies associate microbial cell wall agents in organic dust with various ... (Source: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology)
Source: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology - September 21, 2016 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Sanja Stopin šek, Alojz Ihan, Barbara Salobir, Marjeta Terčelj and Saša Simčič Source Type: research

Total and respirable dust exposures among carpenters and demolition workers during indoor work in Denmark
Within the construction industry the risk of lung disorders depends on the specific professions probably due to variations in the levels of dust exposure, and with dust levels depending on the work task and jo... (Source: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology)
Source: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology - September 20, 2016 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Lilli Kirkeskov, Dorte Jessing Agerby Hanskov and Charlotte Brauer Source Type: research

Gendermetrics.NET: a novel software for analyzing the gender representation in scientific authoring
Imbalances in female career promotion are believed to be strong in the field of academic science. A primary parameter to analyze gender inequalities is the gender authoring in scientific publications. Since th... (Source: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology)
Source: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology - September 15, 2016 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Michael H. K. Bendels, D örthe Brüggmann, Norman Schöffel and David A. Groneberg Source Type: research

Improved method for measurement of multi-walled carbon nanotubes in rat lung
Previously, we have developed and reported the method of measuring multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) in the lung from rats exposed to MWCNT intratracheally. The present research was performed to improve the... (Source: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology)
Source: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology - September 15, 2016 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Makoto Ohnishi, Masaaki Suzuki, Masahiro Yamamoto, Tatsuya Kasai, Hirokazu Kano, Hideki Senoh, Ichiro Higashikubo, Akihiro Araki and Shoji Fukushima Source Type: research

Holi colours contain PM10 and can induce pro-inflammatory responses
At Holi festivals, originally celebrated in India but more recently all over the world, people throw coloured powder (Holi powder, Holi colour, Gulal powder) at each other. Adverse health effects, i.e. skin an... (Source: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology)
Source: Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology - September 10, 2016 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Katrin Bossmann, Sabine Bach, Conny H öflich, Kerttu Valtanen, Rita Heinze, Anett Neumann, Wolfgang Straff and Katrin Süring Source Type: research