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Evidence-based occupational health and safety interventions: a comprehensive overview of reviews.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 55 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Occupational Health of Health-Care Workers with Overnutrition: Scoping Review with Meta-Analysis.Nutrients · 2023Pooled it
- Computer programs used in the field of hospital pharmacy for the management of dangerous drugs: systematic review of literature.Frontiers in public health · 2023Pooled it
- The Effects of the Exogenous Melatonin on Shift Work Sleep Disorder in Health Personnel: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Influence of Nutrition, Food and Diet-Related Interventions in the Workplace: A Meta-Analysis with Meta-Regression.Nutrients · 2021Pooled it
- Scoping Review of Interventions to Prevent CKD of Unknown Origin in Working Populations.Kidney international reports · 2026Article
- Application of large language models as decision support tools in occupational health and safety management: a cohort study of industrial workers.Frontiers in public health · 2026Observational
- Pathological Processes Among Content Creators on Social Media: Scoping Review.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2025Article
- Voice as a Working Tool for Teachers: A Qualitative Study of Work-Related Perceptions and Impact.Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation · 2024Article
- Occupational injuries in orthopedic and trauma surgeons in Austria.Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery · 2024Article
- Effectiveness of Occupational Safety and Health interventions: a long way to go.Frontiers in public health · 2024Review
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- Occupational health and safety regulatory interventions to improve the work environment: An evidence and gap map of effectiveness studies.Campbell systematic reviews · 2023Article
- Methods to improve the translation of evidence-based interventions: A primer on dissemination and implementation science for occupational safety and health researchers and practitioners.Safety science · 2022Article
- Musculoskeletal symptoms and their associated risk factors among Saudi office workers: a cross-sectional study.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2021Article
- Workplace Organizational and Psychosocial Factors Associated with Return-to-Work Interruption and Reinjury Among Workers with Permanent Impairment.Annals of work exposures and health · 2021Article
- The hidden dangers of staying home: a London trauma unit experience of lockdown during the COVID-19 virus pandemic.Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England · 2021Observational
- Scientific evidence and guidelines in occupational medicine.La Medicina del lavoro · 2020Article
- Levels of Physical Activity and Prevalence of Musculoskeletal Disorders Among Physicians in Saudi Arabia Post COVID-19 Lockdown: An Epidemiological Cross-Sectional Analysis.Journal of primary care & community healthArticle
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Abstract
objectivesOccupational injuries and diseases are a huge public health problem and cause extensive suffering and loss of productivity. Nevertheless, many occupational health and safety (OHS) guidelines are still not based on the best available evidence. In the last decade, numerous systematic reviews on behavioural, relational and mixed interventions to reduce occupational injuries and diseases have been carried out, but a comprehensive synopsis is yet missing. The aim of this overview of reviews is to provide a comprehensive basis to inform evidence-based decision-making about interventions in the field of OHS.
methodsWe conducted an overview of reviews. We searched MEDLINE (Ovid), the Cochrane Library (Wiley), epistemonikos.org and Scopus (Elsevier) for relevant systematic reviews published between January 2008 and June 2018. Two authors independently screened abstracts and full-text publications and determined the risk of bias of the included systematic reviews with the ROBIS (Risk of Bias in Systematic Reviews) tool.
resultsWe screened 2287 abstracts and 200 full-texts for eligibility. Finally, we included 25 systematic reviews with a low risk of bias for data synthesis and analysis. We identified systematic reviews on the prevention of occupational injuries, musculoskeletal, skin and lung diseases, occupational hearing impairment and interventions without specific target diseases. Several interventions led to consistently positive results on individual diseases; other interventions did not show any effects, or the studies are contradictory. We provide detailed results on all included interventions. DISCUSSION: To our knowledge, this is the first comprehensive overview of behavioural, relational and mixed interventions and their effectiveness in preventing occupational injuries and diseases. It provides policymakers with an important basis for making evidence-based decisions on interventions in this field. PROSPERO REGISTRATION NUMBER: CRD42018100341.
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