Intelligent Wearable Occupational Health Safety Assurance System of Power Operation.

To improve the capacity of emergency control over on-site operation risk and effectively guarantee safety of operators in a complicated environment, a wearable safety assurance system framework for power operation is proposed. The framework centres on a wearable information processing gateway for single man and provides standardized access for vital signs monitoring, human-machine interaction and other equipment in a form of wireless ad hoc network. Using wearable vital signs monitoring equipment, the physiological parameters such as heart rate, body temperature and blood pressure can be monitored in real time. By extracting physiological parameters and SVM machine learning method, the operator's health condition is judged. Practical application shows that the wearable safety assurance system can evaluate the life status of workers in complex environment in real time, and can detect the risk of personal safety accidents caused by abnormal physical condition in the process of operation in advance.

Workplace safety concerns in medico-legal death investigations related to COVID-19.

The personnel involved in the management of COVID-19 affected dead bodies, including law enforcement personnel at the scene of crime, personnel involved in transportation of the dead bodies, forensic practitioners, autopsy pathologists, mortuary personnel, as well as the family members of the dead, etc. are at risk of exposure to SARS-CoV-2 infection. Post-mortem examination is a high-risk procedure, considering that it involves aerosol generating procedures, and exposure to body fluids. The safety of the forensic practitioners and support staff in the management of suspected or confirmed COVID-19 deaths hence, is of extreme importance, especially in the absence of pre-autopsy testing for COVID-19 and due to non-availability of adequate first-hand medical history of the deceased. This communication aims to highlight the current practices and advises certain guidelines in ensuring occupational health and safety in view of these risks in medico-legal death investigations.

Scoping Global Aquaculture Occupational Safety and Health.

Objectives: In 2017 the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Committee on Fisheries committed to prioritize occupational safety and health issues in aquaculture (AOSH). An international team was established to synthesize OSH knowledge concerning more than 19 million, often vulnerable, aquaculture workers found globally.Methods: The study was conducted as a desktop scoping exercise using both peer-reviewed and gray literature and the knowledge and expertize of an international panel. Collated information used a standard proforma. Panel members developed draft national and regional AOSH profiles outlining occupational hazards contributing to occupational injuries, diseases, and known solutions. These were work-shopped and refined after gathering additional information and used to compile the first global scoping review report on AOSH.Results: Synthesized results revealed multiple hazards, significant global knowledge gaps and some successful and unsuccessful global, national and industry-specific AOSH policies, practices and standards along the primary supply chain, in marine and freshwater contexts. Some constructive initiatives by the International Labor Organization (ILO) and FAO, industry, labor and civil society groups in a range of employment and geographical settings and across diverse populations of workers were identified.Conclusion: Global commitment to AOSH should be given the same focus as product quality, biosecurity, food safety and environmental sustainability in the sector. This needs development and implementation of integrated AOSH actions appropriate for diverse settings especially in low and middle-income countries encompassing greater uptake of international codes, better risk assessment and OSH management, adoption of technological innovations, effective OSH regulation and enforcement, adequate resources, training and information.

Uma leitura da crise da atividade de prevenção: paradoxos atuais e desafios futuros / A reading of the crisis of prevention activities: current paradoxes and future challenges

Introduction: The activity of occupational health and safety professionals is in a paradoxical situation considering, among other aspects, the productivity context, which gives low priority to safety and health, the limitation imposed by the hegemonic conceptual references in the field, the limitation of these professionals' power to act and the highly conflicting and complex character of the occupational world. Objective: In essay form, the article, in dialog with the literature of the field, proposes to reflect on the impasses and challenges of the prevention field. Method: The reflections are based on the experience of the authors both in the practical area as also in research, teaching and extension activities in the field of health surveillance and workers' safety. Results: Even though this field of activity has been recognized as a specialized and legal area for more than 40 years in the country, the magnitude of the data concerning occupational and industrial accidents reveals the limitations and difficulties that these professionals face, and justifies the importance of the analysis of current practices in order to understand the contradictions that lie at the root of the difficulties to achieve prevention. Conclusion: Citizens could pressure corporations to improve their safety practices and concepts. State can also be pressured to create new safety policies.

Introdução: A atividade dos profissionais que atuam no campo da prevenção em saúde e segurança do trabalhador encontra-se diante de situação paradoxal tendo em vista, entre outros aspectos, o contexto produtivista que deixa em segundo plano a segurança e a saúde, a limitação das referências conceituais hegemônicas no campo, as limitações do poder de agir destes profissionais e a própria natureza conflituosa e complexa do mundo do trabalho. Objetivo: Na forma de ensaio, o artigo, em diálogo com a literatura do campo, se propõe a refletir sobre os impasses e desafios da atividade de prevenção. Método: As reflexões se baseiam na experiência dos autores seja no campo prático como em atividades de pesquisa, ensino e extensão na área de vigilância em saúde e segurança do trabalhador. Resultados: Embora a atividade de prevenção tenha sido reconhecida como campo de atuação legal e especializada há mais de 40 anos no país, a magnitude dos dados relativos aos acidentes ocupacionais e industriais mostra limites e dificuldades que esses profissionais enfrentam e justifica a importância da análise das práticas correntes em busca de entender as contradições que estão na origem das dificuldades para o alcance do objeto da prevenção. Conclusão: A sociedade pode cobrar das organizações trabalho seguro e saudável, criando pressão para que mudem suas práticas e conceitos, ou pode pressionar também o Estado para que sejam criadas políticas públicas em relação à segurança.