The world at work: Hotel cleaners

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 360-364

  Hsieh, Yu Chin ^a   Apostolopoulos, Yorghos ^b,c   Sönmez, Sevil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; GLASS; LATEX; SOLVENT;

ALLERGIC REACTION; BODY POSITION; BODY POSTURE; BULLYING; CHEMICAL ACCIDENT; CLEANING; FALLING; HOSPITAL WASTE; HOTEL CLEANER; HUMAN; HYPODERMIC NEEDLE; JOB STRESS; MENTAL STRESS; NONMEDICAL OCCUPATIONS; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; OVEREXERTION; PHYSICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; REVIEW; SEXUAL HARASSMENT; STRETCHING; WORKLOAD;

COMMERCE; FEMALE; HOUSEKEEPING; HUMANS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; PUBLIC FACILITIES; WORK;

EID: 84877618549     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2012-100986     Document Type: Review

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