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The under-recognition of occupational risk related to solar ultraviolet radiation exposure and skin cancers
Full text linkEditorial: Environmental or occupational exposure to optical radiation: Risk evaluation, health effects and prevention - tangible innovation for public and occupational health?
No full textPREVENTION OF EXPOSURE TO RADIATION RISKS: CURRENT UPDATES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR WORKERS' HEALTH
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1616b Questionnaire based evaluation of the whole-life history of solar uv radiation exposure in a group of patients in italy
Full text linkPrevention of Health Risks Related to Occupational Solar Ultraviolet Radiation Exposure in Times of Climate Change and COVID-19 Pandemic
Full text linkOccupational exposure to solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation is a recognized work-related risk, as is associated with the induction of long-term adverse health effects such as Non-Melanoma Skin Cancers and cataracts. Recent research provided new data suggesting an increased risk of specific forms of malignant melanoma, i.e., Lentigo Maligna Melanoma, for outdoor workers, while the relation of cumulative exposure to solar radiation with ocular diseases, such as uveal melanoma and macular degeneration, is still debated. Nowadays, one of the main focuses of prevention activities is the organization of multicomponent sun safety initiatives, which are proved to be effective, particularly when including technologies that are able to directly interact with individuals, such as phone apps, such as the recently released SunSmart Global UV App. Nevertheless, we should not forget that we are living in an era of profound changes, and phenomena such as climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic have an impact on all aspects of our lives, including how and when we perform, as well as the perception of, outdoor activities. In the future, this may result in possible changes in the scenario of occupational and leisure-time solar radiation exposure-related health risks
Occupational Health and Safety in the Healthcare Sector
Full text linkHealthcare workers are exposed to several different occupational risk factors, and they pay
an important tribute in terms of occupational diseases and work-related injuries. Currently, the
COVID-19 pandemic has focused the attention on the problem of the infectious risk, which is certainly
among the risks typically expected and specifically recognized for the health personnel, but also other
occupational risks should not be overlooked, as, e.g., the risks associated with work-organization
factors and with the exposure to chemical and physical agents. The health consequences associated
with the exposure to all these factors have relevant impacts in terms of induced diseases, DALYs,
sickness absence from work and costs for the health systems.
According to these premises, this reprint has collected manuscripts addressing topics related
to the prevention of the occupational risks in the healthcare sector, including original articles and
reviews on the prevention of work-related illnesses and injuries of the health personnel, as well as
on the evaluation of the risks in the healthcare workplaces, and on the topics of risk perception and
of the knowledge and attitudes of the workers towards the preventive procedures and the use of
protections. The themes of the prevention of occupational infectious risk, biomechanical overload
of the musculoskeletal system and work-related psychosocial factors are specifically discussed in the
papers collected
COVID-19, long-COVID and return-to-work a questionnaire to investigate the experience of the occupational physicians from an Italian region
No full textOccupational risk related to natural optical radiation exposure and skin cancers
Full text linkSkin tumors are the most frequent neoplasms worldwide in Caucasian subjects, and UV exposure is one of the most relevant risk factors in their etiology. Cumulative UV exposure is strongly associated with an increased occurrence of both basal and squamous cell carcinomas (i.e. Non melanoma skin cancers - NMSC), while for malignant melanoma the role of UV radiation as risk factors seems more related to intermittent and intense exposures, able to induce repeated sunburns, at young ages. Considering the occupational risk, currently UV radiation, part of the solar radiation (SR) spectrum, is one of the major risks in all jobs including outdoor activities (outdoor work - OW): many studies show high levels of solar UV exposure during OW, nevertheless to date the European, and Italian, legislation on occupational risks prevention does not include specific requirements for SR compleexposure at work, as occupational exposure limits values or workers' health surveillance. This is not coherent with the strong associations showed in scientific literature in particular between the occurrence of NMSC and a history of OW. Accordingly, considering the high exposure levels, the large number of outdoor workers and the strong associations with NMSC, we'd expect a relevant number of occupational skin cancers (OSC) to be reported every year to the national workers' compensation authorities in European countries. Nevertheless, in Italy, as in other European countries, the number of reported UV-induced OSC is much lower than the expected number of OSC, with less than 40 cases reported on average in Italy in last years compared to about a thousand of expected cases incident in outdoor workers per year. An increasing in the reporting of OSC would certainly be important, for the purpose of a better recognition of the real dimension of the phenomenon, and to stimulate the implementation of adequate preventive strategies, in order to guarantee an improved protection of outdoor workers and a more appropriate prevention of the adverse health effects related to solar UV exposure
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