With tourism and hospitality representing the largest economic sector in the world,1 and more than 4.8 million rooms in accommodation establishments in the USA alone,2 hotel cleaners comprise a significant occupational segment. Regardless of geographic variation, hotel cleaners are predominantly women, immigrants and minorities working under adverse conditions such as long hours, ergonomic strain, chemical exposure, poor pay, low job control, job insecurity and a wide array of other physical and mental health risks.3–5 Such exposure has produced disproportionately high health disparities among service occupations, including repetitive strain injury, musculoskeletal disorders, allergies and psychological distress; hotel cleaners are both highly underserved and understudied as an occupational segment.6–8 In this paper, we will provide an overview of the plethora of work hazards encountered by hotel cleaners, and propose effective measures to reduce these hazards in order to improve hotel cleaners' occupational safety and health.
Source : Yu-Chin (Jerrie) Hsieh, Yorghos Apostolopoulos, Sevil Sönmez. The world at work: hotel cleaners. Occup Environ Med 2013;70:360-364. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/oemed-2012-100986
L'Institut national du cancer (INCa) met en ligne un guide de ressources documentaires sur la prévention primaire des cancers professionnels : Cancers Pro Doc. Il propose une sélection de documents publiés au cours des dix dernières années. Ceux-ci proviennent de sites institutionnels ou d'organismes reconnus (instituts de recherche, ministères, agences, organismes internationaux etc.).
Source : http://www.e-cancer.fr/prevention/travail-et-cancers/ressources-documentaires
Une campagne nationale de sensibilisation, sous forme d'émission TV, informe sur les risques pour la santé des personnes exposées à l'amiante, les techniques d'intervention et les exigences réglementaires. Trois messages sont relayés :
• l'amiante, qu'est ce que je risque ?
• l'amiante, où je le trouve ?
• l'amiante, si je ne suis pas formé je n'interviens pas.
Source : Le site web dédié à la campagne nationale http://www.amiantereponsedexpert.fr/
Cette brochure a pour objectif d'apporter à l'ensemble des acteurs de la prévention, ainsi qu'aux décideurs, un éclairage sur les questions que pose le lean vis-à-vis des aspects de santé et de sécurité au travail.
En particulier, elle entend donner des repères pour identifier ce qui, dans une organisation de type lean, peut entraîner des situations à l'origine d'accidents, de troubles musculosquelettiques (TMS) ou de risques psychosociaux (RPS).
Des pistes d'action sont également proposées pour aborder les aspects de santé et de sécurité au travail.
Source : http://www.inrs.fr/accueil/produits/mediatheque/doc/publications.html?refINRS=ED%206144
Les actions de prévention sont déclinées selon six axes dans une démarche globale et participative. Pour chaque axe, les outils élaborés et publiés par l'INRS sont référencés pour aider les acteurs dans la mise en place des actions.
Ce document donne donc une vue d'ensemble de la démarche et situe tous les outils précédemment publiés dans cet ensemble.
Source : http://www.inrs.fr/accueil/dms/inrs/CataloguePapier/ED/TI-ED-6148/ed6148.pdf
25/04/2013-Tableaux des maladies professionnelles
Pour son édition 2013, la journée mondiale pour la santé et la sécurité veut inciter les acteurs de la prévention à lutter contre les maladies liées au travail. En proposant une base de données qui permet l’accès aux tableaux des maladies professionnelles français, l’INRS participe activement à ce défi.
Source : http://www.inrs.fr/accueil/header/actualites/guide-electronique-tableau-maladie-professionnelle.html
http://www.inrs-mp.fr/mp/cgi-bin/mppage.pl?
The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration unveiled a new bilingual English-Spanish booklet, "Falling Off Ladders Can Kill: Use Them Safely." The short guide, part of OSHA's national campaign to prevent fatal falls — the leading cause of death in construction — provides clear, easy-to-follow information about ladder hazards and how to use ladders safely, featuring illustrations and plain language writing. The falls prevention campaign now enters its second year and OSHA is working with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the National Occupational Research Agenda on outreach.
Source : http://theatresafetyblog.blogspot.ca/2013/04/osha-campaigns-for-ladder-safety.html
In reflecting on his career, Archie Cochrane once said that he felt it was a pity that he was mainly remembered for his work on randomised controlled trials (RCTs). He actually felt more proud of the research he had done on behalf of workers in British coal mines.[1] Based on his work, dust levels in coal mines have been lowered considerably, reducing the risk of pneumoconiosis. There have been improvements in many other occupational safety and health (OSH) statistics, such as injury rates and exposures to chemical agents,[2] but there are also OSH problems for which the statistics have not shown a decline. Occupational hearing loss is still reported among the most frequent occupational diseases in many countries. Around the world, workers and employers struggle with problems such as disability related to back pain and other musculoskeletal problems. And in health care, we still cannot fully protect workers from the risks of contracting infectious diseases from their work [...]
Source : Verbeek J, Morata TC, Ruotsalainen J, Vainio H. Prevention of occupational diseases: implementing the evidence [editorial]. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2013 30 April;4:ED000056. dx.doi.org/10.1002/14651858.ED000056
http://www.thecochranelibrary.com/details/editorial/4608821/Prevention-of-occupational-diseases-implementing-the-evidence.html
Exposition à l'amiante - Réglementation 2013 en questions-réponses
Le Ministère du Travail a mis en ligne un guide questions-réponses qui apporte des précisions nécessaires à la mise en oeuvre du décret du 4 mai 2012 et de ses arrêtés d'application. Le sujet vous paraîtra moins complexe après consultation du questions-réponses accessible en PDF depuis le site dédié.
Le guide sur le site www.travailler-mieux.gouv.fr
Source : http://www.travailler-mieux.gouv.fr/Amiante-un-Questions-Reponses.html
Slip-related falls are a significant health problem, particularly on icy walking surfaces. Pervious concrete, a material allowing rapid exfiltration of melted ice from the walking surface, may help reduce slipping risk. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to compare slipping characteristics of traditional and pervious concrete walking surfaces in icy conditions using kinetic biomechanical analyses. We hypothesized that pervious concrete, in comparison to traditional concrete, would be characterized by less severe ice-related alteration of friction during gait. Healthy young participants performed gait trials on traditional and pervious concrete surfaces during dry and icy conditions. Ground reaction forces were used to determine maximal magnitude and timing of loading phase normal force, shear force, and normalized friction usage, defined as the ratio of shear to normal force normalized to static coefficient of friction. Pervious concrete, in comparison to traditional concrete, exhibited smaller ice-related increases in normalized friction usage. While ice-related delays in achieving peak friction were observed on traditional concrete, icy conditions did not have an impact on maximal shear force magnitude or timing on pervious concrete. Our results indicate a larger margin between friction forces used during walking and those that would cause a slip, suggesting that pervious concrete may be a more slip-resistant alternative to traditional concrete in icy conditions. The findings reported here may lead to pavement design recommendations for the use of pervious concrete in areas of high pedestrian traffic and elevated slipping risk.
Source : Gregory W. King, Adam P. Bruetsch, John T. Kevern, Slip-related characterization of gait kinetics: Investigation of pervious concrete as a slip-resistant walking surface, Safety Science, vol. 57, August 2013, p. 52-59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2013.01.023
L'organisme suisse de prévention Suva propose une série de vidéos et de ressources interactives destinées à sensibiliser les salariés sur les risques liés à l'utilisation des machines à bois (scies, dégauchisseuse, toupie...). Un programme d'exercice permet aussi aux opérateurs de tester leurs connaissances sur les mesures et les réglages de sécurité de ces équipements.
Source : http://www.suva.ch/fr/startseite-suva/service-suva/lernprogramme-suva/holzbearbeitung-suva.htm?WT.seg_1=rss&WT.rss_f=RSS_FR_News&WT.rss_a=Menuisiers+-+Machines+%E0+travailler+le+bois&WT.rss_ev=r
Des employeurs de plus en plus nombreux choisissent aujourd'hui d'intégrer la prévention dans la gestion globale de leur entreprise en mettant en place un management de la santé et de la sécurité au travail. Cette approche peut favoriser une amélioration continue et durable de la santé et de la sécurité. Mais pour être réellement efficace, elle impose de respecter certains principes clés.
Source : http://kiosque.inrs.fr/lettre/archives/001/001_070.html
Commissioned by the UK based Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), the objectives of this research were to:
- carry out a literature review to gather information on good safety rule management
- produce guidelines on what constitutes good practice
- develop an intervention plan that safety practitioners could use to improve their own management of safety rules.
The research team carried out a literature search on the basis of 27 key words, in all relevant combinations, and tapped into 25 databases. This revealed an initial trawl of 301 relevant papers in the period since 1986. After reading the abstracts, the team reduced the number to 180.
The team produced a scientific review of the literature to present what can be concluded from experience-based and theoretical studies of rule-making and rule management from the diverse literature of safety science and related psychological, sociological and organisational fields. The literature review provided the theoretical 'state of the art' on rule use and management. The research team distilled this into a framework, consisting of nine steps, showing the generic process of rule management. The team presented preliminary results to researchers at conferences, and at a workshop of senior safety practitioners, whose comments and suggestions were incorporated in all sections of the final report. Based on these discussions, the team developed guidelines for use by safety practitioners. These outline good practice in each step, as a stimulus for reviewing an organisation's rule management. The team also developed a brief intervention plan to help safety practitioners and consultants review and benchmark rule management systems. The intervention plan is included at the end of the guidance.
Safety rules and procedures: the evidence base by Health and Safety Technology and Management Ltd and University of Ballarat (2012)
http://www.iosh.co.uk/books_and_resources/published_research.aspx#Rules
The ubiquitous plastic bucket - it shows-up unannounced, hangs around like an unwanted house-guest, and finally spills it guts and gets thrown in the trash.
Source : http://theatresafetyblog.blogspot.ca/2013/03/bucket-bails-break-bones.html
Générées par de multiples applications industrielles, les champs électromagnétiques sont susceptibles d'altérer la santé des travailleurs exposés. Afin d'aider les entreprises à évaluer et à prévenir ces risques, l'INRS publie en coopération avec l'INERIS une nouvelle brochure à visée opérationnelle (de référence ED 6136).
Source : http://www.inrs.fr/accueil/header/actualites/brochure-risque-champ-electromagnetique.html
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