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The prevention of burnout can only be achieved
on both individual and organizational levels. Employees who experience less
burnout were found to have higher self esteem, feel more sufficient, and to be
less affected by their environment. Alongside these, individuals resistant to
burnout were stated to be individuals with hobbies, strong social relations,
and the ability to draw social support from the people in their environment. In
the light of these findings, prevention efforts on an individual level can be
realized through ensuring self-esteem, regulating relations to others,
providing hobbies, teaching to say no, and the provision of skills such as
stress management. This can be achieved through groups working at the same or
different occupational field receiving psychological support (for example,
relaxation techniques, stress management, psychodrama). Occupational burnout is
an important problem that needs to be understood and prevented where the fields
of organizational and clinical psychology need to work in cooperation.

"The Challenge: Highway and street construction workers (SIC 1611) and other workers on highway construction sites are at risk of death or serious injury when working near passing motorists, construction vehicles, and equipment. From 1992-2000, 910 worker fatalities occurred in work zones; 91% (n=826) were vehicle- or equipment-related. Of the 797 cases for which vehicle type was known, 490 (61%) were associated with a construction vehicle, 256 (32%) with a traffic vehicle, and 51 (6%) with both. Pedestrian workers were as likely to be struck by a construction vehicle (n=258) as by a passing traffic vehicle (n=250). Approach: Project staff planned and facilitated out a 3-day workshop in December 1998. The 60 attendees represented key stakeholders, including the Federal Highway Administration, National Safety Council, Deere & Company, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, 3M, Jefferson Group, OSHA, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, International Union of Operating Engineers, Reflexite, Laborers = Health and Safety Fund of North America, and Industrial Safety Equipment Association. Workshop preparations included conceptualizing topic areas (safety of pedestrian workers, safety of equipment operators, planning for safe work, and night work), obtaining a contracted literature review, and developing "white papers" to serve as background for discussions at the workshop. Scientific and technical literature was synthesized with input received at the workshop to develop the 2001 NIOSH document Building Safer Highway Work Zones. Public comment was obtained through a Federal Register notice and direct requests to stakeholders. Results: The primary product of this research was a NIOSH document, Building Safer Highway Work Zones, which addresses a broad range of interventions to prevent worker deaths and injuries associated with vehicles and equipment. Some injury prevention approaches discussed in the document are directly related to construction operations (e.g., work zone layout, flagger safety, illumination of the work space, and use of temporary traffic control devices), while others focus on management practices that can affect worker safety (e.g., incorporating safety elements into the bidding process, pre-planning for traffic control inside the work space, and coordination between multiple contractors on the same site). The document also offers case studies suitable for worker training sessions or safety talks. Impact: A primary impact of this work is greater recognition, particularly among the government and construction industry groups that build and oversee the Nation's roads, that construction vehicles pose a substantial safety risk to pedestrian workers. At this project's inception, the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), the federal guideline for temporary traffic control, required that only flaggers wear high-visibility clothing. A measure that all workers in work zones wear high-visibility clothing appeared in Building Safer Highway Work Zones and in later comments on proposed rulemakings. The 2003 MUTCD revision incorporated this NIOSH measure. Building Safer Highway Work Zones continues to be a resource for the highway construction industry and has been reprinted a number of times, with almost 19,000 copies distributed to date. A number of commercial insurers distribute it to clients engaged in highway construction, and it has been adapted into training modules geared to highway workers."- NIOSHTIC-2 ; "Lead researcher: Stephanie Pratt, CDC/NIOSH/DSR." ; At head of title: "A Project from the first 10 years of NORA." ; On first page: Logo for the Research to Practice at NIOSH initiative (r2p). ; "The findings and conclusions in this report have not been formally disseminated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health should not be construed to represent any agency determination or policy." ; "Created: 9/8/06/Modified: 11/2/10" - file properties ; Also available via the World Wide Web as an Acrobat .pdf file (118.1 KB, 2 p.).

"The Workers' Compensation Data Use Workshop was convened to discuss opportunities for collaboration in the analysis of WC data in order to help reduce the risks of occupational injuries and illnesses. Stakeholders from private insurance carriers, insurance associations, self-insured corporations, academic institutions and government agencies participated. Presentations described differences among state laws, proper interpretation of common industry terms, proprietary interests in insurance data, public release of internal analyses, and methods for linking WC data with other health and employment data." - NIOSHTIC-2 ; Foreword -- Introduction -- Background -- Acknowledgements -- Welcoming Remarks -- Using Workers' Compensation Data for Occupational Injury and Illness Prevention -- Safety & Health Assessment and Research for Prevention (SHARP) Program -- Reducing Occupational Injury - The Value and the Challenge of Determining the Burden -- A Brief History of Economists' Research on the Effect of Workers' Compensation on Safety and Health -- The Contribution of Workers' Compensation Research to Public Health -- Reconciling Workplace Injury and Illness Data Sources -- Methodological Challenges in the Liberty Mutual Workplace Safety Index: Working Towards a Future Model -- Harmonizing Existing Databases Counting Workplace Injuries and Illnesses -- Overview of an Insurance Carrier's Service Sector Data -- Workers' Compensation Data Utilization in Injury Prevention Research at the Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety -- Using Employer Records-Pitfalls and Opportunities -- Multi-Agency Data Matching to Detect Suspected Uninsured Employers: Research Impacts Policy -- State-based Occupational Injury and Disease Surveillance -- Managing Prevention with Leading and Lagging Indicators in the Workers' Compensation System -- Benchmarking and Performance Measurement for Governments -- Self-Insured Experience with Workers' Compensation -- Using Workers' Compensation Data: The Move from Lagging to Leading Indicators -- Past, Present, and Future Uses of Some Workers' Compensation Data -- Differences among State Workers' Compensation Laws and Regulations -- National Averages of Employee Benefits and Employer Costs for Workers' Compensation -- Learning from Workers' Compensation Claims Triangles -- Identifying and Tracking Trends in Workplace Injuries and Illnesses-Opportunities and Challenges in Using Workers' Compensation Rating Bureau Data -- Identifying Vulnerable Populations in Workers' Compensation Data: Limited English Proficiency Workers and Temporary Agency Workers -- How to Make Interventions Work: An Insurance Perspective Narrative to Accompany "Barriers to Reporting" -- Comparing Lost Work Days under Workers' Compensation and Short-term Disability, Evidence from IBI's Disability Benchmarking Data -- Linking Workers' Compensation and Employment Security Data for Occupational Health and Safety Surveillance -- Reconfiguring a Workers' Compensation Database for Epidemiologic Analysis -- The Use of Workers' Compensation Data to Identify and Track Workplace Risk and the Effectiveness of Preventative Measures -- Data Linkage for Prevention: Traumatic Injuries in Construction -- Summary of Workshop Discussion: Occupational Health and Safety Surveillance Using Workers' Compensation Data -- Workshop Participants -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Using Workers' Compensation Data for Occupational Injury & Illness Prevention ; David F. Utterback and Teresa M. Schnorr, editors. ; "May 2010, revised August 2010." ; "In September 2009, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) partnered with the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) and the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries, Safety and Health Assessment and Research for Prevention (SHARP) program to sponsor a workshop on the use of workers' compensation data for occupational safety and health surveillance. Workshop participants came from academia, insurance companies and associations, self-insured corporations, labor unions, and state and federal government." - p. iv ; Also available via the World Wide Web. ; Includes bibliographical references.

"On October 28, 1999, leaders from industry, government, labor, professional and trade organizations, and academia met in Detroit to share best practices for preventing work-related hearing impairment. The symposium highlighted an array of proven strategies and new advancements for protecting workers' hearing. The symposium was sponsored by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), the National Hearing Conservation Association (NHCA), and the Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences Department of Wayne State University. Additional support for this program was provided by the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Michigan Industrial Hygiene Society, the American Industrial Hygiene Association, the National Safety Council, the Institute of Noise Control Engineering, and the Douglas A. Fraser Center for Workplace Issues." - p. 1 ; Introduction -- Keynote -- The Handicap resulting from noise-induced hearing impairment / Alice Suter -- -- Session I: Hearing Loss Prevention Program -- Evaluation Audit, Effectiveness, and Evaluation Measures -- Ford's annual report to the United Auto Workers (UAW)-Ford National Joint Committee on Health and Safety / Henry B. Lick -- Web-based self-audit protocol and effectiveness measures in the military / Doug Ohlin -- NIOSH criteria document effectiveness measures / John Franks -- The Contribution of focus groups in evaluation of hearing conservation program (HCP) effectiveness / Mary Prince -- -- Session II: Regulation, Surveillance, and Enforcement in Hearing -- Loss Prevention -- Project sensor: hearing loss surveillance / Ken Rosenman -- Strategic planning for reduction of noise-induced hearing loss in Michigan / Doug Kalinowski -- Pending revision to CFR 1904 recordkeeping rule / Jim Maddux -- Breakout Session I: Noise Measurement and Noise Control -- Organizing a noise control engineering program / Robert Anderson -- Noise control on a budget / Stephen I. Roth -- _ -- Breakout Session II: The Role of Audiometric Data Management in Hearing Loss Prevention -- Audiometric data: use it, don't lose it! / Thomas Simpson -- The Role of audiometric data management in hearing loss prevention: audiometric data management / John Franks -- Audiometric data collection and management / Theresa Schulz -- -- Breakout Session III: Hearing Protection Issues -- The Performance of hearing protection devices / Elliott H. Berger -- Insert-type hearing protector attenuation measurements on end-users in the steel industry / Kevin Michael -- -- Breakout Session IV: Employee Training and Motivation for Effective Hearing Loss Prevention -- Preventing noise-induced hearing loss in construction workers: a video-based training program / Sally L. Lusk, -- Why training needs change / Carol J. Merry ; Also available via the World Wide Web as an Acrobat .pdf file (821 KB, 67 p.).

AbstractPortugal, with a relatively high fatality rate for occupational accidents, faces the challenge of reducing fatalities with limited funding. This research identifies significant predictors in Portugal and estimates probabilities of occurrence. The model, based on applied logistic regression, suggests that policy‐makers should focus prevention efforts on older workers; persons with permanent contracts; those employed by large enterprises or at workplaces in the trade or services sectors; and those exposed to deviations by overflow, overturn, leak, flow, vaporization or emissions that are likely to cause musculoskeletal disorders, wounds, fractures or traumatic amputations.

This article is a description of the current situation in France with regard to occupational cancer: research, prevention, and occupation. Toxicologic experiments are carried out using (italic)in vitro(/italic) and (italic)in vivo(/italic) tests, particularly using transgenic mice. Several epidemiologic studies have been conducted over the last decades: population-based case-control studies; mortality studies and cancer incidence studies carried out in historical cohorts of workers employed in the industry; and case-control studies nested in occupational cohorts. French ethical aspects of toxicologic and epidemiologic studies are described. The results thus obtained are used to establish regulations for the prevention and the compensation of cancers attributable to occupational exposure. This French regulation for prevention of occupational cancer involves several partners: (italic)a(/italic)) the states authorities, including labor inspectors, responsible for preparing and implementing the labor legislation and for supervising its application, particularly in the fields of occupational health and safety and working conditions; (italic)b(/italic)) the Social Security Organisation for the analysis of present or potential occupational risks based on tests, visits in plants, complaints or requests from various sources, and statistics. These activities are performed within the framework of the general French policy for the prevention of occupational cancer. This organization includes the National Institute for Research and Safety, particularly involved in research in the various fields of occupational risks--animal toxicology, biologic monitoring, exposure measurements epidemiology, psychology, ergonomy, electronic systems and machineries, exposure to chemicals, noise, heat, vibration, and lighting; and (italic)c(/italic)) companies where the regulation defines the role of the plant manager, the occupational physician, and the Health, Safety and Working Conditions Committee (comprising the manager, employees' ...