Medication reporting in the workplace
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Many different types of medications can cause drowsiness, dizziness, confusion, and low blood pressure. These side effects can interfere with job performance and risk employee safety. Although many studies have evaluated the effects of medications on driving performance, very few have addressed the issue of medication use by employees in hazardous work environments. Therefore, a study was performed to determine if the use of medications by employees is related to job incidents, and to determine employee compliance with a program that requires medication use on the job to be reported. The study included 175 employees of the Utah Bacchus Works facility of Hercules Aerospace who worked in hazardous work areas with explosives, heavy equipment, power tools, or heavy machinery. Eighty-six of the workers had been involved in a total of 92 different work-related incidents (incident group), and 89 of the workers had not been involved in work-related incidents (control group). There were no significant differences in reported use of medication or in results of drug screening tests between the two groups. The workers in the incident group were younger and were more likely to have been employed by the company for less than one year than the workers in the control group. Only 19 percent of the employees who tested positive for medication use during a drug screening program had reported that they were using restricted medications. Medication use was not found to be directly related to job safety incidents, but being employed for less than one year was a risk factor for safety incidents. In addition, self-reporting of medication use was unreliable and did not reflect actual medication use. (Consumer Summary produced by Reliance Medical Information, Inc.)
Publication Name: Journal of Occupational Medicine
Subject: Health care industry
ISSN: 0096-1736
Year: 1991
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Preparing for Personal Protection
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The kidnapping and murder of executives in Spain have increased during the past decade. The need for personal protection has grown. A conglomerate of Spanish service companies has established the Eulen Institute to train individuals providing protection for executives. The institute facilities accommodate up to fifty individuals and has classrooms, gymnasiums and firing ranges. The training involves four objectives including the provision of a basis upon which personnel can be screened and the teaching of protection team tactics. Courses include ethics and professionalism as well as reconaissance and reaction procedures. Attack situations are simulated. Practical exercises are evaluated and critiqued.
Publication Name: Security Management
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0145-9406
Year: 1984
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Hole-istic remedy
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The 30 million pounds sterling redevelopment of Pepys estate in Deptford, south London, has included work on Daubeney Tower, a 26-storey block of 144 flats built in the mid-1960s. Architect AFH Shaw Sprunt redesigned the entrance to the block by forming three two-storey holes through its base. This gave it a clear ground-floor entrance and lightened up this part of the estate considerably.
Publication Name: Building
Subject: Construction and materials industries
ISSN: 0007-3318
Year: 1995
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