There is always a human health dimension to any major incident or disaster. A meeting organised by the US Institute of Medicine in New Orleans on June 22-23 2010 addressed these concerns. It was good to see the broader aspects of OHS covered, including stress and psychological aspects. It must […]
Yearly Archives: 2010
I was watching the World Cup last night and noticed the very noisy bee swarm noise from many vuvuzelas. It drowned out the crowd and made the commentry harder to hear. I did some preliminary research on the vuvuzela wiki
Vuvuzela noise at World Cup
I have been monitoring how reliable my websites are with a free subscription to Pingdom. They send me an email each time the site is not available and another when it is up again. Presently, its averaging a little over 99% – somewhat less than the “official” figure of 99.7%
Website Uptime with Pingdom
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
During a literacy project with 3 rural primary schools in Cambodia in October 2009, I saw several posters by the Australian Government on the walls of classrooms. The design of the mask is such that it would give the wearer very limited protection as the face mask would not seal […]
Face masks in Cambodia
Understanding the combined effects of physical and chemical agents is difficult. EU-OSHA, the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work has just released a 60 page literature review into ototoxicity Combined exposure to Noise and Ototoxic Substances.