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Hollander, Roberta B.; Feldman, Robert H. L. – Health Education (Washington D.C.), 1986
The work setting offers the health educator a unique opportunity for research. This article discusses advantages and disadvantages associated with health education research in the workplace and suggests ways the research efforts in this setting can be optimized. (DF)
Descriptors: Health Education, Occupational Safety and Health, Research Needs, Research Opportunities
Talty, John T. – Engineering Education, 1985
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health instituted a project in 1980 to encourage engineering educators to focus on occupational safety and health issues in engineering curricula. Progress to date is outlined, considering specific results in curriculum development, engineering society interaction, and formation of a teaching…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Engineering Education, Higher Education, Occupational Safety and Health
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Johnson, Pamela R.; Indvik, Julie – Public Personnel Management, 1997
Discusses causes and symptoms of depression and its effects in the workplace. Suggests what managers and employee assistance programs can do to address this major occupational health issue. (SK)
Descriptors: Costs, Depression (Psychology), Employee Assistance Programs, Employment Problems
Rosskam, Ellen; Baichoo, Pavan – World of Work, 1997
Ergonomics focuses on the prevention of injuries through proper design of equipment, workstations, and products. The adoption of an ergonomic philosophy in the workplace has demonstrable benefits. (JOW)
Descriptors: Employment Practices, Human Factors Engineering, Occupational Safety and Health, Prevention
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Farmer, Frank L.; Clarke, Leslie L.; Flocks, Joan D.; Bryant, Carol A.; Romund, Camilla S.; Albrecht, Stan L. – Journal of the Community Development Society, 2002
Two community-based projects employed social marketing to design and implement interventions to promote health. The Arkansas project involved key informant interviews, actuarial analysis, citizen and student surveys, and participant observation. The Florida approach included focus groups and provider, worker, and employer surveys. (Contains 25…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Health Programs, Health Promotion, Occupational Safety and Health
World of Work, 2002
Despite significant progress in efforts to abolish child labor, an alarming number of children are engaged in its worst forms. Although 106 million are engaged in acceptable labor (light work for those above the minimum age for employment), 246 million are involved in child labor that should be abolished (under minimum age, hazardous work). (JOW)
Descriptors: Child Labor, Foreign Countries, Labor Legislation, Occupational Safety and Health
Ritter, Anne – Personnel (AMA), 1989
Describes Multitasking Systems (MTS), an office services firm that employs only people with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection. It was established by an infectious disease specialist who observed that patients who remain employed do remarkably better than those who do not. (JOW)
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Employee Attitudes, Occupational Safety and Health, Work Environment
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Davis, Thomas S. – Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication, 1995
Argues that today's corporation must keep informed a wide range of individuals who have a stake in environment, health, and safety issues. Describes four elements of an effective communications program for doing so: electronic media to communicate technical information, environmental and safety audits, public communications with company…
Descriptors: Health Education, Higher Education, Occupational Safety and Health, Organizational Communication
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Merrell, Wayne L.; Zeimet, Denis E. – ATEA Journal, 1994
Lists 15 principles for working safely with equipment. Describes phases of an ergonomic hazards program to identify and prevent problems and causes of cumulative trauma disorders in the workplace. (SK)
Descriptors: Design, Human Factors Engineering, Occupational Safety and Health, Prevention
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Habeck, Rochelle V.; And Others – Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 1991
Explored empirical relationship between employer disability prevention and management practices and their workers' compensation claims experience. Data from 124 firms revealed high variability among firms within same industry and operating under same state workers' compensation statute. Findings support assumption that significant portion of…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Employers, Injuries, Occupational Safety and Health
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Seyler, Dian L.; Holton, Elwood F., III; Bates, Reid A.; Burnett, Michael F.; Carvalho, Manuel A. – International Journal of Training and Development, 1998
A study of trainees (n=88) in a competency-based occupational safety and health training program found that environmental factors (opportunities to use skills, peer/supervisor support, and supervisor sanctions) were most influential on motivation to transfer training. Training attitudes may be affected by prior experiences when the use of training…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Motivation, Occupational Safety and Health, Supervisors
Wilson, Robin – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2001
Describes how at the University of Maryland at College Park, language professors say mold growing in their offices is not only destructive to morale, but also endangers their health. (EV)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Health Conditions, Higher Education, Occupational Safety and Health
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Poole, Kathleen; Kumpfer, Karol; Pett, Marjorie – American Journal of Health Promotion, 2001
Examined the impact of participating in an incentive-based employee health promotion program on modifiable health risk factors over 4 years. Data from physiological and self-report measures indicated that modifiable health risks improved over time (smoking, physical activity, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and seat belt use). Cholesterol…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Employees, Health Behavior, Health Promotion
Goodman, Deborah, Ed. – Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2008
"SAMHSA News" is the national newsletter of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Published six times a year (bimonthly) by SAMHSA's Office of Communications, SAMHSA News contains information about the latest substance abuse and mental health treatment and prevention practices, recent statistics on mental health and…
Descriptors: Health Services, Mental Health Programs, Mental Health, Rural Areas
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Hiott, Ann E.; Quandt, Sara A.; Early, Julie; Jackson, David S.; Arcury, Thomas A. – Journal of Rural Health, 2006
Context: Pesticide exposure is an important environmental and occupational health risk for agricultural workers and their families, but health care providers receive little training in it. Objective: To evaluate the medical resources available to providers caring for patients, particularly farmworkers, exposed to pesticides and to recommend a…
Descriptors: Health Personnel, Health Services, Health Education, Instructional Materials
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