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ReviewEnvironment international2018

Implications of applying cumulative risk assessment to the workplace.

Mary A Fox, Kristen Spicer, L Casey Chosewood, Pam Susi, Douglas O Johns, G Scott Dotson

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In one paragraph

Review in Environment international, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
6.2field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 45 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. COVID-19 Stressors on Migrant Workers in Vietnam: Cumulative Risk Consideration.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  8. A Cumulative Risk Perspective for Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Professionals.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Mary A FoxJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, Risk Sciences and Public Policy Institute, 624 N. Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. Electronic address: mfox9@jhu.edu.
Kristen SpicerMurray State University, Jesse D. Jones College of Science, 157D Industry and Technology Center, Murray, KY 42071, USA. Electronic address: kspicer@murraystate.edu.
L Casey ChosewoodCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Office for Total Worker Health®, Cent Bldg 2400, Room 4406, Atlanta, GA 30345, USA. Electronic address: ahx6@cdc.gov.
Pam SusiPennsylvania OSHA Consultation Program, 57 South Ninth Street, Third Floor, Indiana, PA 15701, USA. Electronic address: pam_susi@comcast.net.
Douglas O JohnsCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Respiratory Health Division, Morg Bldg H, Room 2919, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA. Electronic address: wix7@cdc.gov.
G Scott DotsonCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Education and Information Division, Cinc Bldg, Taft, Room 249, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · USJohns Hopkins University · USMurray State University · USNational Institute for Occupational Safety and Health · USOccupational Safety & Health Administration · US

Funding

Intramural CDC HHS CC999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multiple changes are influencing work, workplaces and workers in the US including shifts in the main types of work and the rise of the 'gig' economy. Work and workplace changes have coincided with a decline in unions and associated advocacy for improved safety and health conditions. Risk assessment has been the primary method to inform occupational and environmental health policy and management for many types of hazards. Although often focused on one hazard at a time, risk assessment frameworks and methods have advanced toward cumulative risk assessment recognizing that exposure to a single chemical or non-chemical stressor rarely occurs in isolation. We explore how applying cumulative risk approaches may change the roles of workers and employers as they pursue improved health and safety and elucidate some of the challenges and opportunities that might arise. Application of cumulative risk assessment should result in better understanding of complex exposures and health risks with the potential to inform more effective controls and improved safety and health risk management overall. Roles and responsibilities of both employers and workers are anticipated to change with potential for a greater burden of responsibility on workers to address risk factors both inside and outside the workplace that affect health at work. A range of policies, guidance and training have helped develop cumulative risk assessment for the environmental health field and similar approaches are available to foster the practice in occupational safety and health.

Indexed as

Occupational HealthRisk AssessmentWorkplaceHumansCumulative riskEmployerOccupational safety and healthRisk assessmentWorker

Identifiers

PMID29605675
PMCPMC6108318
OpenAlexW2795225884

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Registered trials

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