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Sexismo; diesel e câncer de pulmão; livro denuncia estresse no trabalho como causa de mortes; vídeo sobre segurança no trabalho com cavalos
1. Sexism: it makes women sick
In a study recently published in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, researchers examined patterns of workplace discrimination and harassment in the U.S. and the consequences for physical and mental health. They had two goals: firstly to determine how pervasive these types of mistreatment were for women, as well as for men, and secondly to determine whether sexism, along with other forms of discrimination and harassment, contributed to health disparities between women and men.
The authors wrote: "Our results suggest that gender discrimination is responsible for around 9 to 10 percent of the gender gap in self-reported health. In other words, if we were to reduce the frequency of gender discrimination, we'd likely see a significant reduction in gender-based health inequality.
"Overall, our results suggest that sexism takes a toll on women's health and well-being. The high frequency with which women experience sexism – at work and elsewhere – underscores the importance of viewing it not only as a social justice issue, but also a public health issue."
Read more: Sexism isn't just unfair; it makes women sick, study suggests, The Conversation.
Catherine E. Harnois, João L. Bastos, Discrimination, Harassment, and Gendered Health Inequalities: Do Perceptions of Workplace Mistreatment Contribute to the Gender Gap in Self-reported Health? [Abstract] Journal of Health and Social Behaviour Article first published online: April 2, 2018.
2. Exposição a baixas concentrações de produtos da queima de óleo diesel e câncer de pulmão
Low diesel exhaust concentrations cause lung cancer
Canadian researchers from the Occupational Cancer Research Centre (Cancer Care Ontario) and other institutions, have reiterated urgent calls for employers to get rid of old diesel-powered machinery. They found that most lung cancers caused by occupational diesel engine exhaust (DEE) are the result of exposures to low concentrations of the substance - and warned that focusing interventions solely on reducing moderate or high DEE exposure will eliminate fewer than half of attributable lung cancer cases.
The researchers used Canadian census and labour force data and cancer registry statistics, and found 2.4 per cent of all lung cancers in Canada were caused by work-related DEE exposure, resulting in 456 deaths in 2011. They found that among the 1.61 million workers exposed to DEE at work from 1961 to 2001, half of the attributable lung cancer cases occurred in the 87 per cent who were exposed to low levels of DEE – about five micrograms per cubic metre (5ug/m3) – like motor vehicle drivers, railroad workers, firefighters and construction labourers.
Read more: Joanne Kim, et al, Burden of lung cancer attributable to occupational diesel engine exhaust exposure in Canada. [Abstract] Occupational and Environmental Medicine, online first April 2018, doi: oemed-2017-104950. More on Diesel. Source: OHS Alert
3. Lançado livro "Dying for a paycheck" ("Morrendo por um salário"): leitura sugerida
How your workplace is killing you
The modern workplace can inflict potentially fatal levels of stress on employees, a succession of studies have shown. Stanford University Jeffrey Pfeffer, author of Dying for a Paycheck, argues that these practices don't help companies – and warns governments are ignoring an emerging public health crisis.
In an online opinion piece for BBC Capital, the professor of organisational behaviour at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, links poor management practices to suicides, heart attacks and rampant work-related ill-health. "A paper I co-authored in a leading peer-reviewed journal estimated that there were 120,000 extra deaths annually in the US from harmful management practices, and that extra health-care costs were $190bn each year. That would make the workplace the fifth leading cause of death, worse than kidney disease or Alzheimer's," Pfeffer notes. "The workplace is making people sick and even killing them – and people should care. With rising health-care costs all over the world, the workplace has become an important public health problem."
The business professor concludes: "Few leaders seem to understand that when people come to work for them, those individuals have placed their physical and psychological well-being in the leaders' hands… People need to choose their employer not just for salary and promotion opportunities but on the basis of whether the job will be good for their psychological and physical health. Business leaders should measure the health of their workforce, not just profits. And governments concerned about the health-care cost crisis need to focus on the workplace, because workplace stress is clearly making people sick. None of this necessary – no one should be dying for a pay cheque."
BBC Capital. Dying for a Paycheck: How modern management harms employee health and company performance—and What We Can Do About It, HarperBusiness, March 2018.
Joel Goh, Jeffrey Pfeffer, Stefanos Zenios. The relationship between workplace stressors and mortality and health costs in the United States, [Abstract] Management Science, volume 62, issue 2, pages 608-628, 13 March 2016. Source: Risks 848
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Segurança ao trabalhar com cavalos (em inglês)
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