Publications

Publication • Published year 2013

Work-related psychosocial and mechanical risk factors for work disability: a 3-year follow-up study of the general working population in Norway

Objectives This study examines the impact of work-related psychosocial and mechanical risk factors for work disability in the general wor...

Tom Sterud

Publication • Published year 2013

Energy Cost of the Trondheim Firefighter Test for Experienced Firefighters

Aim. The aim of this study was to measure aerobic demands of fire fighting activities including exercise in the heat. Methods. Twenty-two...

Erna Dianne Von Heimburg; Jon Ingulf Medbø

Publication • Published year 2013

A brief safety climate inventory for petro-maritime organizations

The first aim of this two-study paper was to report psychometric properties of a brief 11-item measure of safety climate adapted to petro...

Morten Birkeland Nielsen; Jarle Eid; Sigurd William Hystad; Bjørn Sætrevik; Evelyn Saus-Rose

Publication • Published year 2013

Performance on a work-simulating firefighter test versus approved laboratory tests for firefighters and applicants

Aim: Firefighters must meet minimum physical demands. The Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority (NLIA) has approved a standardised treadm...

Erna Dianne Von Heimburg; Jon Ingulf Medbø; Mariann Sandsund; Randi Eidsmo Reinertsen

Publication • Published year 2013

Does the threshold for reporting musculoskeletal pain or the probability of attributing work-relatedness vary by socioeconomic position or sex?

Objective: To examine the effect of sex and socioeconomic position (SEP) on individuals’ perceptions of pain and its work-relatedness. ...

Ingrid Alethe Sivesind Mehlum; Petter Kristensen; Kaj Bo Veiersted; Morten Wærsted; Laura Punnett

Publication • Published year 2013

Fatalities in High Altitude Mountaineering: A Review of Quantitative Risk Estimates

Fatalities in high altitude mountaineering: A review of quantitative risk estimates. High Alt Med Biol 14:346–359, 2013.—Quantitative est...

Stephan Weinbruch; Karl-Christian Nordby

Publication • Published year 2013

A comparison of two physical ability tests for firefighters

Smoke diving is physically demanding, and firefighters must therefore meet certain minimum physical requirements. The aim of this study w...

Asgeir Mamen; Harald Oseland; Jon Ingulf Medbø

Publication • Published year 2013

Relationships between work environment factors and workers’ well-being in the maritime industry

Background: The aim of this study was to determine whether physical and psychosocial work factors are related to the levels of job satis...

Morten Birkeland Nielsen; Kjersti Bergheim; Jarle Eid

Publication • Published year 2013

Phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate 5-kinase (PIKfyve) is an AMPK target participating in contraction-stimulated glucose uptake in skeletal muscle

PIKfyve (FYVE domain-containing phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate 5-kinase), the lipid kinase that phosphorylates PtdIns3P to PtdIns(3,5)P...

Yang Liu; Yu-Chiang Lai; Elaine V. Hill; Donatienne Tyteca; Sarah Carpentier; Ada Ingvaldsen; Didier Vertommen; Louise Lantier; Marc Foretz; Franck Dequiedt; Pierre J. Courtoy ...

Publication • Published year 2013

Are national levels of employee harassment cultural covariations of climato-economic conditions?

Conflict in a workgroup turns into harassment if a group member is persistently confronted with negative acts with few possibilities to r...

Evert Van De Vliert; Ståle Einarsen; Morten Birkeland Nielsen