Tungsten carbide (WC) and tungsten carbide cobalt (WC-Co) nanoparticles are of occupational health relevance because of the increasing usage in hard metal industries.
Because of the limitations on the objective methods and experimental tests, a subjective approach was taken and a questionnaire with a Likert scale was designed for evaluation of the relevance of occupational factors to each job performance.
We focus specifically on the relevance of occupational boundaries in role extension policy introduced in the NHS.
In both men and women, the relevance of occupational factors as well as nonoccupational and constitutional predictors could be shown.
To our knowledge, this is the first study to document an association of prenatal mercury exposure with poorer performance on a school-age assessment of IQ, a measure whose relevance for occupational success in adulthood is well established.
Because many European countries as well as the United States are in shortage of healthcare workers [ 14, 15], finding ways to reduce the prevalence of long-term musculoskeletal pain among this occupational group has enormous relevance.
Instead, we deliberately chose to assess the dimension that is, in our opinion, of highest relevance for occupational health care professionals targeting workplace adjustments, namely the extent of the problems experienced during work due to MSDs.
Since the International Agency for Research on Cancer IARCC) has classified cobalt as 'possibly carcinogenic' and tungsten carbide cobalt as 'probably carcinogenic' to humans [ 23] research on the elucidation of the mode of action of nano-sized particles of these materials is of high relevance for occupational health.
6. Relevance is relevant.
Version (16.0) of the database from O*Net consists of scores, from worker and occupational expert questionnaires, assessing the relevance of the various activities, abilities, knowledge, and skills to each occupation4.
