Health and safety protection for chemical industry employees in a rotating shift system: Program design and acute injury and illness experience at work

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 221-231

  Ott, M Gerald ^b   Oberlinner, Christoph ^a   Lang, Stefan ^a   Hoffmann, Gerhard ^a   Nasterlack, Michael ^a   Pluto, Rolf Peter ^a   Trauth, Bernd ^a   Messerer, Peter ^a   Zober, Andreas ^a  

^a BASF SE   (Germany)

^b BASF CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPLOYEE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MENTAL STRESS; MONITORING; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PROPHYLAXIS; WORK SCHEDULE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; GERMANY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE;

EID: 67449100596     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e318192bd0f     Document Type: Article

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