Protecting Workers
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13. Physical exercises for the improvement of quality of life and work capacity and for the prevention of pain and fatigue, among factory workers / Exercicios fisicos na melhoria da qualidade de vida e da capacidade de trabalho e na prevenção da dor e da fadiga, entre trabalhadores de fabrica
Nowadays, pain and fatigue are the workers largest complaints, negatively influencing their work capacity and their quality of life. In the present study, the role of the physical exercise is discussed as a protecting and preventive agent in relation to those complaints. The objective of this work is to investigate the relationship among the practice of phys
Publicado em: 2007
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14. Humor e estresse no trabalho: fatores psicossociais estressores e benéficos no trabalho dos operadores de telemarketing / Humor and stress at work: psychosocial stressors and protecting factors at work of telemarketers
Aim. Taking into account the two-dimensional nature of stress-related psychosocial factors (CASSEL, 1974), the study aimed at identifying the interrelation of negative (stressors) and protecting (beneficial) such factors in the work of a group of telemarketing operators, and the potential of humor as a \ psychosocial resource\ in face of stress at work, as a
IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia. Publicado em: 03/05/2005
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15. Atividade antiulcerogencia do oleo essencial e da fração rica em alfa-bisabolol, obtidos de especies do genero Eremanthus
The species of the gender Eremanthus, are known popularly as lamps and wood lamps and found in several savannah areas. Your essential oil is very used by the industry of cosmetics, being produced in Brazil and exported for several countries. For being used as cicatrizant by workers involved in your production, this oil was selected for studies of antiulcerog
Publicado em: 2000
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16. Protecting Poultry Workers from Exposure to Avian Influenza Viruses
Emerging zoonotic diseases are of increasing regional and global importance. Preventing occupational exposure to zoonotic diseases protects workers as well as their families, communities, and the public health. Workers can be protected from zoonotic diseases most effectively by preventing and controlling diseases in animals, reducing workplace exposures, and
Association of Schools of Public Health.
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17. Protecting the workers: the medical board and the asbestos industry, 1930s-1960s.
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18. Interference with the pacemakers of two workers at electricity substations.
Pacemaker function was tested in two electricity substation workers exposed to high tension electric fields. High intensity electric fields induced reversion to the interference mode, producing in one case competitive rhythm and in the other inappropriately slow pacing which resulted in asymptomatic pauses of up to 2.5 s. A suit designed to shield the body f
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19. Protective efficacies of live attenuated and formaldehyde-inactivated Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus vaccines against aerosol challenge in hamsters.
Although two investigational vaccines are used to immunize humans against Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis virus, neither had previously been tested for protective efficacy against aerosol exposure. Live attenuated vaccine (TC-83) protected all hamsters challenged by either aerosol or subcutaneous routes with 4.7 to 5.2 log10 PFU of virulent Venezuelan eq
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20. The effects of immunisation upon the natural history of pertussis. A family study in the Cardiff area.
During an outbreak of pertussis in the Cardiff area in 1974, 229 children with the disease were studied to assess the effect of immunisation upon its natural history and severity. The typical clinical features of pertussis, such as paroxysmal cough, whooping, vomiting, cyanosis, and irregular breathing, were less prevalent in both the immunised and the older
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21. `Vineyard sprayer's lung': a new occupational disease
The mildew of the vineyards is prevented by the use of sprays with a solution of copper sulphate neutralized with hydrated lime. The inhalation of this solution while spraying may give rise to predominantly interstitial pulmonary lesions which may lead to respiratory insufficiency. These lesions, which were experimentally reproduced in guinea-pigs, have a we