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- Eklund, Jörgen, et al.
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Sorting and disposing of waste at recycling centres : A users perspective
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Ingår i: Applied Ergonomics. - : Elsevier BV. - 0003-6870 .- 1872-9126. ; 41:3, s. 355-361
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper investigates Swedish recycling centres from the users' perspective. The aim was to describe the characteristics and experiences of the users and their activities when sorting and disposing of waste, and to identify improvements for the users. The typical recycling centre user is a recently retired man, living in a house with a garden, having travelled 5 km alone in his own car. The users requested longer opening hours and better information available at home and at the recycling centre. The major difficulty for the users is to understand which fraction their waste belongs to, and consequently into which container they should throw it. The most important sources of sorting information, in addition to experience from earlier visits, are signs and asking the personnel. Although the service at recycling centres is perceived positively by a majority of users. substantial improvements can still be made, and a number of such suggestions are given.
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- Engkvist, Inga-Lill
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Accidents leading to over-exertion back injuries among nursing personnel
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The overall aim of the present thesis was to contribute to the knowledge of occupational accidents leading to over-exertion back injuries among nursing personnel, which can be used for developing effective preventive strategies. Different combinations of factors and events were assumed to determine the type of accident process leading to an over-exertion injury. The first study used the Swedish Occupational Injury Register (ISA) to investigate the occurrence of reported accidents leading to back injuries among female assistant nurses in the working population during a two years period. In Study II standardised instruments for the systematic investigation of accidents were developed with the aim to collect the information necessary for effective accident prevention. The third study investigated factors involved in the accident process leading to back injury by using these instruments. Study IV identified and quantified work-related and non-work-related risk indicators for reported back injuries. Study V identified different patterns of risk indicators in the nurses' work situation and factors modifying the risk for back injuries in these situations. The source population was all nurses employed in the Stockholm County hospitals (totally 24,500 persons) and the observed periods were 12 months (Study III) and 36 months (Study IV-V), respectively. Assistant nurses had a high relative risk of accidents leading to over-exertion back injuries compared to other Swedish women, and also compared to registered general nurses. Most accidents occurred during patient transfer. Several factors contributing to the accident process were identified by the instruments. One important factor was deficiencies in the work environment, e.g. lack of space or lack of transfer devices, which entailed the nurse to perform patient transfers in a non-optimal way. Six types of accidents were defined by their pattern of factors contributing to the risk associated with the accident process. The strongest risk indicators for reporting a back injury were working in an orthopaedic ward, performing regular patient transfers and working full-time. The relative risk of patient transfer was lower among nurses who had received training in how to use the devices on their own ward, and who frequently used transfer devices. Further, six homogeneous groups of work conditions and their modifiers were identified, two of which were associated with an increased risk. These groups consisted of a high proportion of assistant nurses working full-time, on a rolling schedule and regularly performing patient transfers. A large proportion of the groups had had a prior injury. The three low-risk clusters were primarily characterised by part-time work. According to the results in this thesis, the most important measures for prevention of accidents leading to over-exertion back injuries are related to the work organisation and measures directed towards the environment.
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- Engkvist, Inga-Lill
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Back injuries among nurses - A comparison of the accident processes after a 10-year follow-up
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Ingår i: Safety Science. - : Elsevier BV. - 0925-7535 .- 1879-1042. ; 46:2, s. 291-301
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A prospective dynamic-population-based study was conducted to investigate whether factors involved in the accident process preceding over-exertion back injuries among nursing personnel had changed compared with 10 years earlier. The study covers all reported occupational over-exertion back injuries due to accident among nurses in the hospitals of Stockholm County during the years 1992-1993 and 2002-2003. The assumption was that several factors and events interact in the accident process causing a back injury. Detailed information about the accident process was obtained for each injury by interviews with the injured person. During the two study periods, interviews were conducted with 130 and 132 nurses, respectively. In both studies, most accidents occurred during ordinary planned patient transfers, and the distributions of the type of patient transfer were very similar. Mostly, draw sheets and walking belts were used as transfer equipment, although in about half of the cases, the patients had both physical and psychological limitations, which restricted their cooperation in the transfer. In 2002-2003, the nurses were older and had longer experience of the specific task they were doing, fewer had been given instructions on how to perform the specific task, they were more stressed and rated their RPE higher compared with nurses in 1992-1993. In 2002-2003, the injury more often led to sick leave and to longer sick leave, furthermore, the nurses more often sought medical care and more often took analgesics compared with 10 years earlier. There were no relation between age and if the injury led to a sick-leave or not or the length of sick-leave. © 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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