Exploring the Importance of the Management of Health and Safety Risks
This paper examines the employee’s perceptions about Health and Safety Risks in the Organizations specifically the violence, included harassment (moral and sexual) phenomena considered emerging risk by EU-OSHA. Questions surveyed adapted from European Survey of Enterprises on New and Emerging Risks questionnaire with data collected(N =407).The results show that health and safety risks are affected by obstacles like a lack of resources such as time, staff or money, a lack of awareness, a lack of training and or expertise, a lack of technical support or guidance, culture within the establishment, and sensitivity of the issue, as well as the difficulties and obstacles in dealing with the risks significantly affect the management and decision making.
Efeitos cognitivos e emocionais do estresse ocupacional em profissionais de enfermagem
OBJETIVOS: Investigar, de forma integrada, possiveis indicadores de alteracoes cognitivas, depressao, ansiedade e agentes estressores ocupacionais em auxiliares e tecnicos de enfermagem e enfermeiros de diversos setores da Santa Casa de Misericordia de Assis-SP, por meio de instrumentos de rastreio psicologico e cognitivo. METODOS: Participaram do estudo 66 profissionais de enfermagem, avaliados por instrumentos de rastreio psicologico e cognitivo. RESULTADOS: A experiencia de estresse nao foi homogenea na equipe de enfermagem; escores altos no rastreio de depressao foram associados a escores cognitivos baixos. CONCLUSAO: Auxiliares e tecnicos de enfermagem e enfermeiros foram afetados pelo estresse, portanto, atencao a saude do trabalhador deve ser oferecida a toda a equipe de enfermagem.
Ceramic microwave antennas for mobile applications
Due to their medium to high permittivity values, ceramic microwave materials are attractive as building blocks for miniaturised antenna solutions. Further advantages are low dielectric losses and an excellent temperature stability of standard ceramic materials. Yet, the permittivity of the ceramic material also has a strong influence on the radiation efficiency and bandwidth of the antenna. This implies that in the design process a suitable compromise has to be found between the degree of miniaturisation on the one hand and the antenna efficiency and bandwidth on the other. We describe two approaches towards efficient miniaturised ceramic microwave antennas: the dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) with partial metallisation and the shorting post patch antenna. We focus on design steps taken to ensure both a high degree of miniaturisation and high values of the radiation efficiency, the choice of the ceramic material and the experimental performance of the antennas.