Dive Brief:
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has released a free Worker Well-Being Questionnaire to help employers, workers, researchers, practitioners and policymakers better understand and target interventions to improve workers’ welfare.
The questionnaire measures well-being at the company, industry and workforce levels and looks at factors ranging from workplace culture to safety climate.
In addition to individual firms employing it within their own ranks, occupational safety professionals, public health experts and policymakers can use the questionnaire to monitor changes in worker well-being in relation to economic conditions, societal trends or changing governmental or organizational policies. Researchers and organizational consultants can also use it to assess the state of a working population before, during and after an intervention.
Abstract
Many countries across the globe utilized medical and non-medical facemasks as non-pharmaceutical intervention for reducing the transmission and infectivity of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). Although, scientific evidence supporting facemasks’ efficacy is lacking, adverse physiological, psychological and health effects are established. Is has been hypothesized that facemasks have compromised safety and efficacy profile and should be avoided from use. The current article comprehensively summarizes scientific evidences with respect to wearing facemasks in the COVID-19 era, providing prosper information for public health and decisions making.
Keywords:Physiology, Psychology, Health, SARS-CoV-2, Safety, Efficacy
Introduction
Facemasks are part of non-pharmaceutical interventions providing some breathing barrier to the mouth and nose that have been utilized for reducing the transmission of respiratory pathogens[1]. Facemasks can be medical and non-medical, where two typ
Both personal factors and the time of day play a role in neck strength and endurance, according to a new study.
The researchers found that while poor neck and head postures are the primary determinants of neck pain, body mass index, age, and the time of the day also influence the neck’s ability to perform sustained or repeated movements.
With roughly 80% of jobs being sedentary, often requiring several hours of sitting stooped in front of a computer screen, neck pain is a growing occupational hazard. Smartphones and other devices have also caused people to bend their necks for prolonged periods. But the new research suggests bad posture is not solely to blame.
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Worcester officials say findings of investigation into Firefighter Christopher Roy’s death will lead to improvements on top of training, staffing already boosted
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Worcester officials say the recent results of a federal investigation into Firefighter Christopher Roy’s death and an ongoing independent assessment of the fire department will lead to improvements on top of the boosted training and staffing already implemented over the last two years.
Investigators with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) recently found that a lack of risk assessment, issues with incident management and command safety and inadequate staffing were contributing factors in Roy’s tragic December 2018 death in an alleged arson fire. Roy became trapped on the second floor of 7 Lowell St. after the fire spread from the basement.