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indicated that construction site between psychosocial that several psychosocial the quality of patient care and
managers should be trained working conditions and working conditions were safety and can impose high
and supported in encouraging sickness absence (SA) among associated with SA spells of costs, so occupational health
safe behaviours, as well as in employees, aged 15 to 30 any length, and that previous in this industry requires proper
interrupting risky behaviours. years, who entered the labour studies on long-term SA identification of hazards and

READ REPORT AT: market in Denmark between may be generalisable to managing related risks. In this
bit.ly/leadership- 2010 and 2018. Registers all lengths of SA among study, researchers attempted
safety-behaviours were used to follow 301,185 younger employees. to develop an easy-to-use
younger employees to assess READ REPORT AT: occupational health risk
TOPIC: Associations their job insecurity, quantitative bit.ly/conditions- assessment model with a
between psychosocial demands, decision authority, absence-assocations fuzzy approach to evaluate
working conditions and job strain, emotional demands risks more precisely, which
sickness absence and work-related physical TOPIC: Risk could be applied to a wide
TITLE: Psychosocial working violence for an average of assessment models variety of hazards. A fuzzy
conditions and sickness 2.6 years. Among women, TITLE: Development and inference system was designed
absence among younger being employed in occupations application of a fuzzy and applied to develop the
employees in Denmark: a with high versus low occupational health risk risk assessment model.
register-based cohort study emotional demands showed assessment model in the Researchers found that the
using job exposure matrices the strongest association healthcare industry developed model could be
PUBLISHED BY: Scandinavian with SA. Among men, being PUBLISHED BY: La Medicina applied as a practical model
Journal of Work, Environment employed in occupations with del Lavoro for evaluating occupational
and Health low decision authority showed SUMMARY: Workplace health risks.
SUMMARY: This study aimed the strongest association with hazards and their impacts on READ REPORT AT:
to investigate associations SA. Researchers also found the healthcare industry aff ect bit.ly/risk-assessment-models

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