Occupational Stress Indicator

Also commonly used are measures of work performance (Broadbent et al 1982 Houston and Allt 1997 Spurgeon and Harrington 1989), job satisfaction (Brook et al 1988 James and James 1989 Loher et al. 1985 Warr et al. 1979) and the Occupational Stress Indicator (Cooper et al... 

Cooper, C. L. et al. (1988). Occupational Stress Indicator Management Guide. Windsor, UK Hodder and Stoughton. 

Saunders, S.R. and Sawchuk, E.R. 1995 Biological indicators of labour and occupational stress Gender comparisons in a Nineteenth Century pioneer community. Paper presented at the American Association of Physical Anthropology Meetings, Oakland, California. 

Epidemiologic, experimental, and in vitro mechanistic data indicate that lead exposure elevates blood pressure in susceptible individuals. In populations with environmental or occupational lead exposure, blood lead concentration is linked with increases in systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Studies of middle-aged and elderly men and women have identified relatively low levels of lead exposure sustained by the general population to be an independent risk factor for hypertension. In addition, epidemiologic studies suggest that low to moderate levels of lead exposure are risk factors for increased cardiovascular mortality. Lead can also elevate blood pressure in experimental animals. The pressor effect of lead may be mediated by an interaction with calcium mediated contraction of vascular smooth muscle, as well as generation of oxidative stress and an associated interference in nitric oxide signaling pathways. 

Finally, it must be stressed that Hund s rules (and indeed the whole L-S coupling picture) do not generally apply well to heavy atoms. However, magnetic measurements confirm their approximate validity in the transition series Sc to Fe. The occupation of the 3d and 4s orbitals is indicated in the following scheme ... 

The occupational environment can be neutral, cold or hot. A combined action between the four environmental parameters (temperature, relative humidity, velocity and radiant heat) and the two individual parameters (clothing worn by the occupants and their activity) can lead to a thermal comfort, discomfort, or to a thermal stress situation (Parsons, 2013). The integration of these parameters can be done in a thermal index in a way that will provide a single value that is related to the effects on the occupants. Three types of indices can be identified empirical, rational and derived. According to Parsons (2000), rational indices are derived from mathematical models that describe the behavior of the human body in thermal environments. The analysis of these situations can be achieved using diverse techniques and comfort models, such as Computation Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and other numerical simulations (Murakami et ah, 2000). The human thermal software (Teixeira et al., 2010) is based on differential... 

This webinar will provide the attendee with the key elements in developing a "Best Practices Approach" to a heat stress program. The webinar explores why to measure for heat stress, program resources, key measurement indicators, heat stress symptoms, an occupational hygiene program model, key elements used to evaluate the workplace and your program for maximum effectiveness and the most common types of instrumentation used to measure heat stress and heat strain. 

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