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PubMed2001

[Workload, gender and age among personnel with reported sudden lifting injuries].

INTRODUCTION: In 1996 the Danish Parliament passed a new Act on industrial injuries, including the so-called sudden lifting injuries. This type of lifting injury had been experienced in some industries in connection with lifting situations causing sudden pain in the back. Less frequently, other regions of the body may be affected. This study is a distribution of a sample of reported industrial injuries of this type in groups according to types of lifts. The study also includes a comparison with parameters from the Danish Work Environment Cohort Study. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The sample consisted of a total of 482 cases of back injuries. Of these, 346 cases were distributed according to six categories of manual lifting work and to age and gender. The rest, 136 cases, were excluded for technical reasons. RESULTS: In the distribution, 8% of the cases were in jobs with many heavy lifts, 66% of the cases were in jobs with moderate daily lifted weights or in jobs with only few or light lifts. Approximately 25% of cases concerned employees performing patient transfers. The distribution contained more men than the Danish Work Environment Cohort Study, and the persons in the cases were slightly older than this reference population. DISCUSSION: Altogether, this study points towards an occurrence of sudden lifting injuries among employees performing certain types of manual lifting work. The industrial injuries cases may have been subject to some selection.

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How to make the pitch for a part-time workload.

Are you planning on moving from full-time to part-time hours? You'll need a game plan to negotiate what you want, including establishing a timeline and agreeing on productivity expectations. If you can agree on a reasonable timeframe that doesn't inconvenience anyone or endanger important results or relationships, you have a high probability of getting your boss' okay. If you and the boss can't agree on what you must produce, don't consider part-time work unless you thrive on combat. Once you negotiate your new schedule, consider the issue of managing co-worker resentment. Here are the best hints for keeping co-worker envy and resentment at a manageable level: Don't be secretive; keep a low profile; attend all office frolics; and ask for a trial period.

Efficiency↗
PubMed2003

[Psychological stress and musculoskeletal disorders: psychobiological mechanisms. Lack of rest and recovery greater problem than workload].

Psychosocial stress is assumed to contribute to musculoskeletal disorders, particularly neck and shoulder pain. Experimental studies show that mental stress induces a significant increase in muscle tension in the trapezius muscle and several explanatory models have been proposed in order to understand the mechanisms linking low sustained muscle tension to musculoskeletal disorders. Recently, it has been demonstrated that the same motor units are activated by mental stress as by physical demands, which means that mental stress may keep low threshold motor units active also during breaks at work and off the job. In the modern society, lack of rest and recovery seems even more important for health than the magnitude of stress and physical demands during work.

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PubMed1992

[TOSS (time oriented score system): definition of the nurse/patient relations based on the timing of the workload. Validation during the stay. Gruppo Italiano Multicentrico di Ricerche in Terapia Intensiva (GIRTI)].

TOSS, together with severity of illness (SAPS) and intensity of processes (TISS), has been determined in 941 patients on the 9th day of ICU stay, to ascertain the validity of TOSS in the calculation of the nurse/patient ratio, not only at the time of admission to ICU but also during the stay. The mean values of all indexes measured on day 9 proved lower than those measured on day 1. When the patient population were divided into survivors and non survivors, the above finding held true for surviving patients, while only TISS showed such behavior in patients who eventually died. On the contrary, both TOSS and SAPS on day 9 were not significantly different from those on day 1. Moreover, overall TOSS and TISS were linearly correlated on both occasions; however, the slope of regression lines were significantly different for the two measurements. Specifically, TOSS grew less rapidly, as a function of TISS, on day 1 compared to day 9; this yields, at equal TOSS value, a lower TISS value on day 9 compared to day 1. Therefore, TOSS demonstrates to be a suitable index to determine the nurse/patient ratio, more reliable and straightforward to be measured than TISS.

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