Sawmills represent an occupational environment with high risk of exposure to wood dust and multiple wood-associated chemicals and microbi...
Anne Straumfors; Komlavi Anani Afanou
1. Physical and chemical properties 2. Methods and problems of analysis 3. Production and uses 4. Environmental levels and exposure 5...
Jan Olav Aaseth; Balazs Berlinger
Bodil Aamnes Mostue; Stig Winge; Anne Marie Lund Eikrem; Hans Magne Ulrik Gravseth
Det har vært forbudt å bruke asbest i byggemateriale siden 1985, men fortsatt finnes det mye asbestholdige byggematerialer igjen i privat...
Pål Graff; Torunn Kringlen Ervik; Stine Eriksen Hammer; Jon Hovik; Ole Martin Synnes; Nils Petter Skaugset
Både i Europa og Norge er arbeidsmiljøet løftet fram som et viktig virkemiddel for å sikre et bærekraftig arbeidsliv hvor flest mulig kan...
Berit Bakke; Eirik Magnus Meek Degerud; Hans Magne Ulrik Gravseth; Therese Nordberg Hanvold; Eva Kristin Løvseth; Beate Mjaaland; Tom Sterud; Helene Øygardslia
Bakgrunn: Hurtig teknologisk og samfunnsmessig utvikling ledsages av endringer i måter arbeid utføres på. Fjernarbeid hjemmefra har i pri...
Lise Fløvik; Lars-Kristian Lunde; Jolien Vleeshouwers; Håkon Andre Johannessen; Live Bakke Finne; Benedicte Mohr; Ingrid Løken Jørgensen; Jan Olav Christensen
To explore the challenges and opportunities the Nordic work environment will face in the future, we conducted a Delphi study, i.e. a surv...
Jan Olav Christensen; Jolien Vleeshouwers; Live Bakke Finne; Kathrine Sørensen; Lene Rasmussen; Jesper Kristiansen
Background: Workplace bullying is an important and prevalent risk factors for health impairment, reduced workability and lowered efficien...
Kari Einarsen; Morten Birkeland Nielsen; Jørn Hetland; Olav Kjellevold Olsen; Lena Zahlquist; Eva Gemzøe Mikkelsen; Justine Koløen; Ståle Einarsen
Contraction-induced adaptations in skeletal muscles are well characterized in vivo, but the underlying cellular mechanisms are still not ...
Tomaz Mars; Katarina Mis; Marija Meznaric; Sonja Prpar Mihevc; Jan Vid; Fred Haugen; Boris Rogelj; Arild Rustan; G. Hege Thoresen; Sergej Pirkmajer; Natasa Nikolic
In the last decade, increasing incidence of type 1 diabetes (T1D) stabilized in Finland, a phenomenon that coincides with tighter regulat...
Aidan McGlinchey; Tim Sinioja; Santosh Lamichhane; Partho Sen; Johanna Eva Bodin; Heli Siljander; Alex M. Dickens; Dawei Geng; Cecilia Carlsson; Daniel Duberg; Jorma Ilonen ...
Objectives The aims of this position paper are to (i) summarize research on precarious employment (PE) in the context of occupational hea...
Theo Bodin; Çiğdem Çağlayan; Anne Helene Garde; Marco Gnesi; Johanna Jonsson; Sibel Kiran; Bertina Kreshpaj; Taina Leinonen; Ingrid Alethe Sivesind Mehlum; Evangelia Nena; Cecilia Orellana ...
In a recent count of cohort studies in Europe capturing information on occupation and/or occupational exposures, we estimated that there ...
Manolis Kogevinas; Vivi Schlünssen; Ingrid Alethe Sivesind Mehlum; Michelle C. Turner
Objectives To determine whether nurses working consecutive night shifts, or short transitions between shifts (quick returns (QRs)), yield...
Maria Katsifaraki; Kristian Bernhard Nilsen; Jan Olav Christensen; Morten Wærsted; Stein Knardahl; Bjørn Bjorvatn; Mikko Härmä; Dagfinn Matre
Objective: To investigate whether low molecular organic biomarkers could be identified in blood samples from vibration exposed workers ...
Per Vihlborg; Pål Graff; Annika Hagenbjörk; Jenny Hadrévi; Ing-Liss Bryngelsson; Kåre Eriksson
Background Meta-analyses have shown firefighters to be at an increased risk of several cancer types. Occupational carcinogen exposure ma...
Jarle Jakobsen; Ronnie Babigumira; Marie Danielsen; Tom Kristian Grimsrud; Raymond Olsen; Cecilie Rosting; Marit Bragelien Veierød; Kristina Kjærheim
BACKGROUND: A large population study with adequate data on confounders is required to determine whether asymmetric hearing loss (AHL) is...
Lisa Aarhus; Bo Lars Engdahl
Background Testing of vibration perception threshold (VPT) at the fingertips as a quantitative measure of tactile sensitivity is a common...
Thomas Clemm; Karl Færden; Bente Ulvestad; Lars-Kristian Lunde; Karl-Christian Nordby
An increased risk of developing colorectal cancer has been associated with exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and alteratio...
Silje Modahl Johanson; Jonathan R. Swann; Özgün Candan Onarman Umu; Mona Aleksandersen; Mette Helen Bjørge Müller; Hanne Friis Berntsen; Karin Elisabeth Zimmer; Gunn Charlotte Østby; Jan Erik Paulsen; Erik Ropstad
It has been suggested that the association between self-reported occupational noise exposure and vestibular schwannoma (VS) found in seve...
Lisa Aarhus; Kristina Kjærheim; Sanna Heikkinen; Jan Ivar Martinsen; Eero Pukkala; Jenny Selander; Mattias Sjöström; Øivind Skare; Kurt Straif; Ingrid Sivesind Mehlum
There is a plausible association between shift work and cardiovascular disease (CVD), which may be due to disruption of the circadian rhy...
Lars-Kristian Lunde; Øivind Skare; Asgeir Mamen; Per Anton Sirnes; Hans Christian Dalsbotten Aass; Reidun Øvstebø; Elisabeth Martinsen Goffeng; Dagfinn Matre; Pia Nielsen; Hanne Siri Amdahl Heglum; Stine Eriksen Hammer ...
Objectives Sawmill workers have an increased risk of adverse respiratory outcomes, but knowledge about exposure–response relationships i...
Anne Straumfors; Marine Corbin; Dave McLean; Andrea t' Mannetje; Raymond Olsen; Komlavi Anani Afanou; Hanne Line Daae; Øivind Skare; Bente Ulvestad; Helle Laier Johnsen; Wijnand Eduard ...
Currently, monitoring of persistent organic pollutant (POP) content in various biological and environmental matrixes in the Arctic is an ...
Dmitry Lakhmanov; Yulia Varakina; Andrey Aksenov; Tatiana Sorokina; Nikita Sobolev; Dmitry Kotsur; Elena Plakhina; Valery Chashchin; Yngvar Thomassen
Objective The aim of this study was to determine the impact of three different office designs (cellular office, shared office, and open-p...
Morten Birkeland Nielsen; Stein Knardahl
Background: A substantial proportion of cancer driver genes (CDG) are also cancer predisposition genes. However, the associations between...
Yuzhuo Wang; Olga Y. Gorlova; Ivan P. Gorlov; Meng Zhu; Juncheng Dai; Demetrius Albanes; Stephen Lam; Adonina Tardon; Chu Chen; Gary E. Goodman; Stig E. Bojesen ...
Objective This study examines under which conditions being an observer of bullying can be detrimental to health and well-being. It was h...
Morten Birkeland Nielsen; Michael Rosander; Stefan Blomberg; Ståle Einarsen