Prevention of COVID-19 by legislation and guidelines is largely unsupported by evidence and appears to rely on Rules of Thumb in infection control procedures in healthcare.
Research
Elsevier are to be congratulated for making COVID-19 research freely available in an easy to access website. The impact is global.
COVID-19 Publishers are making access to COVID-19 research free
The opportunity to view workplaces remotely with additional sound and instrument data streams is just just around the corner.
Street View and Occupational Hygiene
Keeping up with advances in the understanding of occupational diseases is difficult for occupational hygienists, as most of these advances are outside the scope of occupational hygiene.
Occupational Asthma
The Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists has just released the final version of its position paper Adjustment of Workplace Exposure Standards for Extended Work Shifts. Other AIOH publications and position papers are availble here: AIOH Position papers Adjustment of Workplace Exposure Standards for Extended Work Shifts Asbestos Diesel Particulate and […]
Exposure Standards for Extended Shifts
The National Academies Press is a great source of in-depth reports on many issues. Many of the reports can be downloaded as free PDF files. The pre-publications of the report Certifying Personal Protective Technologies: Improving Worker Safety advances the very broad area of certification to ensure a minimum level of protection […]
PPE Certification
Hovding, a company in Malmo, Sweden has developed an “invisible” helmet that is worn as a collar around the neck and inflates to protect the head and neck. I don’t know how tear and scuff resistance it has or what it will cost. The device uses MEMs accelerometers and will be available […]
Invisible Self-Inflating Helmet
A large study into brain tumours and mobile phones by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) INTERPHONE Study Group has just been published “Brain tumour risk in relation to mobile telephone use: results of the INTERPHONE international case–control study” in the International journal of epidemiology Advance Access published […]
Mobile phones and brain tumours
I have just finished a paper on smell for the AIOH2008 conference in Perth in December. One of the references I wanted was Gilbert, A. (2008). What the Nose Knows:
eBooks
The risk of brian tumors from mobile phones may be increased by a factor of four, if a new study