• An advanced empirical model for quantifying the impact of heat and climate change on human physical work capacity 

      Foster J., Smallcombe J.W., Hodder S., Jay O., Flouris A.D., Nybo L., Havenith G. (2021)
      Occupational heat stress directly hampers physical work capacity (PWC), with large economic consequences for industries and regions vulnerable to global warming. Accurately quantifying PWC is essential for forecasting ...
    • AMBIENT DOSE EQUIVALENT RECEIVED at 15 MV LINAC ENVIRONMENTS DUE to PHOTONEUTRONS CONTAMINATION 

      Vagena E., Katsaras P., Theodorou K., Stoulos S. (2018)
      Mapping of the photoneutron spectrum and flux performed at several positions over the treatment table of a 15 MV medical linac. Neutron activation technique has been applied to obtain the neutron spectra in the mixed I3 ...
    • Are municipal solid waste collectors at increased risk of Hepatitis A Virus infection? A Greek cross-sectional study 

      Rachiotis G., Tsovili E., Papagiannis D., Markaki A., Hadjichristodoulou C. (2016)
      Municipal solid waste collectors are reportedly at risk for Hepatitis A virus infection (HAV) as an occupational hazard. We aimed to investigate the prevalence and possible risk factors of HAV infection among solid waste ...
    • Artificial Optical Radiation photobiological hazards in arc welding 

      Gourzoulidis G.A., Achtipis A., Topalis F.V., Kazasidis M.E., Pantelis D., Markoulis A., Kappas C., Bourousis C.A. (2016)
      Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) is associated with crucial social, economic, cultural and technical issues. A highly specialized OHS sector deals with the photobiological hazards from artificial optical radiation ...
    • Cross-continental comparison of safety and protection measures amongst urologists during COVID-19 

      de la Rosette J., Laguna P., Álvarez-Maestro M., Eto M., Mochtar C.A., Albayrak S., Mendoza-Valdes A., Ong T.A., Khadgi S., Al-Terki A., Bolton D., Gomez R., Klotz L., Kulkarni S., Tanguay S., Gravas S., the Societe Internationale d'Urologie Board of Directors (2020)
      Objectives: To determine the well-being of urologists worldwide during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, and whether they have adequate personal protective equipment knowledge and supplies appropriate to their clinical ...
    • Determinants of heat stress and strain in electrical utilities workers across North America as assessed by means of an exploratory questionnaire 

      Flouris A.D., Ioannou L.G., Notley S.R., Kenny G.P. (2022)
      Previous field studies monitoring small groups of participants showed that heat stress in the electrical utilities industry may be detrimental to worker health and safety. Our aim in this study was to characterize heat ...
    • Evaluation of the genetic damage to workers in a Greek shipyard 

      Koutsoumplias D., Damati A., Thanasias E., Vlastos D., Halkos G., Matthopoulos D., Makropoulos V. (2022)
      Shipyards are industrial areas where workers are likely exposed to environmental pollutants such as welding fumes, fine organic solvent and dye dust, that render the occupational environment a high risk one. Assessing the ...
    • An exploratory survey of heat stress management programs in the electric power industry 

      Kaltsatou A., Notley S.R., Flouris A.D., Kenny G.P. (2021)
      Workers in the electric power industry commonly perform physically demanding jobs in hot environments, which combined with the protective clothing worn, places them at risk of disease and health problems related to ...
    • A free software to predict heat strain according to the ISO 7933:2018 

      Ioannou L.G., Tsoutsoubi L., Mantzios K., Flouris A.D. (2019)
      Our primary objective in this study was to design and implement the FAME Lab PHS Calculator software (PHSFL) (www.famelab.gr/research/downloads), a free tool to calculate the predicted heat strain of an individual based ...
    • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2017: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 

      Stanaway J.D., Afshin A., Gakidou E., Lim S.S., Abate D., Abate K.H., Abbafati C., Abbasi N., Abbastabar H., Abd-Allah F., Abdela J., Abdelalim A., Abdollahpour I., Abdulkader R.S., Abebe M., Abebe Z., Abera S.F., Abil O.Z., Abraha H.N., Abrham A.R., Abu-Raddad L.J., Abu-Rmeileh N.M.E., Accrombessi M.M.K., Acharya D., Acharya P., Adamu A.A., Adane A.A., Adebayo O.M., Adedoyin R.A., Adekanmbi V., Ademi Z., Adetokunboh O.O., Adib M.G., Admasie A., Adsuar J.C., Afanvi K.A., Afarideh M., Agarwal G., Aggarwal A., Aghayan S.A., Agrawal A., Agrawal S., Ahmadi A., Ahmadi M., Ahmadieh H., Ahmed M.B., Aichour A.N., Aichour I., Aichour M.T.E., Akbari M.E., Akinyemiju T., Akseer N., Al-Aly Z., Al-Eyadhy A., Al-Mekhlafi H.M., Alahdab F., Alam K., Alam S., Alam T., Alashi A., Alavian S.M., Alene K.A., Ali K., Ali S.M., Alijanzadeh M., Alizadeh-Navaei R., Aljunid S.M., Alkerwi A., Alla F., Alsharif U., Altirkawi K., Alvis-Guzman N., Amare A.T., Ammar W., Anber N.H., Anderson J.A., Andrei C.L., Androudi S., Animut M.D., Anjomshoa M., Ansha M.G., Antó J.M., Antonio C.A.T., Anwari P., Appiah L.T., Appiah S.C.Y., Arabloo J., Aremu O., Ärnlöv J., Artaman A., Aryal K.K., Asayesh H., Ataro Z., Ausloos M., Avokpaho E.F.G.A., Awasthi A., Quintanilla B.P.A., Ayer R., Ayuk T.B., Azzopardi P.S., Babazadeh A., Badali H., Badawi A., Balakrishnan K., Bali A.G., Ball K., Ballew S.H., Banach M., Banoub J.A.M., Barac A., Barker-Collo S.L., Bärnighausen T.W., Barrero L.H., Basu S., Baune B.T., Bazargan-Hejazi S., Bedi N., Beghi E., Behzadifar M., Behzadifar M., Béjot Y., Bekele B.B., Bekru E.T., Belay E., Belay Y.A., Bell M.L., Bello A.K., Bennett D.A., Bensenor I.M., Bergeron G., Berhane A., Bernabe E., Bernstein R.S., Beuran M., Beyranvand T., Bhala N., Bhalla A., Bhattarai S., Bhutta Z.A., Biadgo B., Bijani A., Bikbov B., Bilano V., Bililign N., Sayeed M.S.B., Bisanzio D., Biswas T., Bjorge T., Blacker B.F., Bleyer A., Borschmann R., Bou-Orm I.R., Boufous S., Bourne R., Brady O.J., Brauer M., Brazinova A., Breitborde N.J.K., Brenner H., Briko A.N., Britton G., Brugha T., Buchbinder R., Burnett R.T., Busse R., Butt Z.A., Cahill L.E., Cahuana-Hurtado L., Campos-Nonato I.R., Cárdenas R., Carreras G., Carrero J.J., Carvalho F., Castaneda-Orjuela C.A., Rivas J.C., Castro F., Catalá-López F., Causey K., Cercy K.M., Cerin E., Chaiah Y., Chang H.-Y., Chang J.-C., Chang K.-L., Charlson F.J., Chattopadhyay A., Chattu V.K., Chee M.L., Cheng C.-Y., Chew A., Chiang P.P.-C., Chimed-Ochir O., Chin K.L., Chitheer A., Choi J.-Y.J., Chowdhury R., Christensen H., Christopher D.J., Chung S.-C., Cicuttini F.M., Cirillo M., Cohen A.J., Collado-Mateo D., Cooper C., Cooper O.R., Coresh J., Cornaby L., Cortesi P.A., Cortinovis M., Costa M., Cousin E., Criqui M.H., Cromwell E.A., Cundiff D.K., Daba A.K., Dachew B.A., Dadi A.F., Damasceno A.A.M., Dandona L., Dandona R., Darby S.C., Dargan P.I., Daryani A., Gupta R.D., Neves J.D., Dasa T.T., Dash A.P., Davitoiu D.V., Davletov K., De La Cruz-Góngora V., La Hoz F.P.D., Leo D.D., Neve J.-W.D., Degenhardt L., Deiparine S., Dellavalle R.P., Demoz G.T., Denova-Gutiérrez E., Deribe K., Dervenis N., Deshpande A., Jarlais D.C.D., Dessie G.A., Deveber G.A., Dey S., Dharmaratne S.D., Dhimal M., Dinberu M.T., Ding E.L., Diro H.D., Djalalinia S., Do H.P., Dokova K., Doku D.T., Doyle K.E., Driscoll T.R., Dubey M., Dubljanin E., Duken E.E., Duncan B.B., Duraes A.R., Ebert N., Ebrahimi H., Ebrahimpour S., Edvardsson D., Effiong A., Eggen A.E., Bcheraoui C.E., El-Khatib Z., Elyazar I.R., Enayati A., Endries A.Y., Er B., Erskine H.E., Eskandarieh S., Esteghamati A., Estep K., Fakhim H., Faramarzi M., Fareed M., Farid T.A., Farinha C.S.E., Farioli A., Faro A., Farvid M.S., Farzaei M.H., Fatima B., Fay K.A., Fazaeli A.A., Feigin V.L., Feigl A.B., Fereshtehnejad S.-M., Fernandes E., Fernandes J.C., Ferrara G., Ferrari A.J., Ferreira M.L., Filip I., Finger J.D., Fischer F., Foigt N.A., Foreman K.J., Fukumoto T., Fullman N., Fürst T., Furtado J.M., Futran N.D., Gall S., Gallus S., Gamkrelidze A., Ganji M., Garcia-Basteiro A.L., Gardner W.M., Gebre A.K., Gebremedhin A.T., Gebremichael T.G., Gelano T.F., Geleijnse J.M., Geramo Y.C.D., Gething P.W., Gezae K.E., Ghadimi R., Ghadiri K., Falavarjani K.G., Ghasemi-Kasman M., Ghimire M., Ghosh R., Ghoshal A.G., Giampaoli S., Gill P.S., Gill T.K., Gillum R.F., Ginawi I.A., Giussani G., Gnedovskaya E.V., Godwin W.W., Goli S., Gómez-Dantés H., Gona P.N., Gopalani S.V., Goulart A.C., Grada A., Grams M.E., Grosso G., Gugnani H.C., Guo Y., Gupta R., Gupta R., Gupta T., Gutiérrez R.A., Gutiérrez-Torres D.S., Haagsma J.A., Habtewold T.D., Hachinski V., Hafezi-Nejad N., Hagos T.B., Hailegiyorgis T.T., Hailu G.B., Haj-Mirzaian A., Haj-Mirzaian A., Hamadeh R.R., Hamidi S., Handal A.J., Hankey G.J., Hao Y., Harb H.L., Harikrishnan S., Haro J.M., Hassankhani H., Hassen H.Y., Havmoeller R., Hawley C.N., Hay S.I., Hedayatizadeh-Omran A., Heibati B., Heidari B., Heidari M., Hendrie D., Henok A., Heredia-Pi I., Herteliu C., Heydarpour F., Heydarpour S., Hibstu D.T., Higazi T.B., Hilawe E.H., Hoek H.W., Hoffman H.J., Hole M.K., Rad E.H., Hoogar P., Hosgood H.D., Hosseini S.M., Hosseinzadeh M., Hostiuc M., Hostiuc S., Hoy D.G., Hsairi M., Hsiao T., Hu G., Hu H., Huang J.J., Hussen M.A., Huynh C.K., Iburg K.M., Ikeda N., Ilesanmi O.S., Iqbal U., Irvani S.S.N., Irvine C.M.S., Islam S.M.S., Islami F., Jackson M.D., Jacobsen K.H., Jahangiry L., Jahanmehr N., Jain S.K., Jakovljevic M., James S.L., Jassal S.K., Jayatilleke A.U., Jeemon P., Jha R.P., Jha V., Ji J.S., Jonas J.B., Jonnagaddala J., Shushtari Z.J., Joshi A., Jozwiak J.J., Jürisson M., Kabir Z., Kahsay A., Kalani R., Kanchan T., Kant S., Kar C., Karami M., Matin B.K., Karch A., Karema C., Karimi N., Karimi S.M., Kasaeian A., Kassa D.H., Kassa G.M., Kassa T.D., Kassebaum N.J., Katikireddi S.V., Kaul A., Kawakami N., Kazemi Z., Karyani A.K., Kefale A.T., Keiyoro P.N., Kemp G.R., Kengne A.P., Keren A., Kesavachandran C.N., Khader Y.S., Khafaei B., Khafaie M.A., Khajavi A., Khalid N., Khalil I.A., Khan G., Khan M.S., Khan M.A., Khang Y.-H., Khater M.M., Khazaei M., Khazaie H., Khoja A.T., Khosravi A., Khosravi M.H., Kiadaliri A.A., Kiirithio D.N., Kim C.-I., Kim D., Kim Y.-E., Kim Y.J., Kimokoti R.W., Kinfu Y., Kisa A., Kissimova-Skarbek K., Kivimäki M., Knibbs L.D., Knudsen A.K.S., Kochhar S., Kokubo Y., Kolola T., Kopec J.A., Kosen S., Koul P.A., Koyanagi A., Kravchenko M.A., Krishan K., Krohn K.J., Kromhout H., Defo B.K., Bicer B.K., Kumar G.A., Kumar M., Kuzin I., Kyu H.H., Lachat C., Lad D.P., Lad S.D., Lafranconi A., Lalloo R., Lallukka T., Lami F.H., Lang J.J., Lansingh V.C., Larson S.L., Latifi A., Lazarus J.V., Lee P.H., Leigh J., Leili M., Leshargie C.T., Leung J., Levi M., Lewycka S., Li S., Li Y., Liang J., Liang X., Liao Y., Liben M.L., Lim L.-L., Linn S., Liu S., Lodha R., Logroscino G., Lopez A.D., Lorkowski S., Lotufo P.A., Lozano R., Lucas T.C.D., Lunevicius R., Ma S., Macarayan E.R.K., Machado Í.E., Madotto F., Mai H.T., Majdan M., Majdzadeh R., Majeed A., Malekzadeh R., Malta D.C., Mamun A.A., Manda A.-L., Manguerra H., Mansournia M.A., Mantovani L.G., Maravilla J.C., Marcenes W., Marks A., Martin R.V., Martins S.C.O., Martins-Melo F.R., März W., Marzan M.B., Massenburg B.B., Mathur M.R., Mathur P., Matsushita K., Maulik P.K., Mazidi M., Mcalinden C., Mcgrath J.J., Mckee M., Mehrotra R., Mehta K.M., Mehta V., Meier T., Mekonnen F.A., Melaku Y.A., Melese A., Melku M., Memiah P.T.N., Memish Z.A., Mendoza W., Mengistu D.T., Mensah G.A., Mensink G.B.M., Mereta S.T., Meretoja A., Meretoja T.J., Mestrovic T., Mezgebe H.B., Miazgowski B., Miazgowski T., Millear A.I., Miller T.R., Miller-Petrie M.K., Mini G.K., Mirarefin M., Mirica A., Mirrakhimov E.M., Misganaw A.T., Mitiku H., Moazen B., Mohajer B., Mohammad K.A., Mohammadi M., Mohammadifard N., Mohammadnia-Afrouzi M., Mohammed S., Mohebi F., Mokdad A.H., Molokhia M., Momeniha F., Monasta L., Moodley Y., Moradi G., Moradi-Lakeh M., Moradinazar M., Moraga P., Morawska L., Morgado-Da-costa J., Morrison S.D., Moschos M.M., Mouodi S., Mousavi S.M., Mozaffarian D., Mruts K.B., Muche A.A., Muchie K.F., Mueller U.O., Muhammed O.S., Mukhopadhyay S., Muller K., Musa K.I., Mustafa G., Nabhan A.F., Naghavi M., Naheed A., Nahvijou A., Naik G., Naik N., Najafi F., Nangia V., Nansseu J.R., Nascimento B.R., Neal B., Neamati N., Negoi I., Negoi R.I., Neupane S., Newton C.R.J., Ngunjiri J.W., Nguyen A.Q., Nguyen G., Nguyen H.T., Nguyen H.L.T., Nguyen H.T., Nguyen M., Nguyen N.B., Nichols E., Nie J., Ningrum D.N.A., Nirayo Y.L., Nishi N., Nixon M.R., Nojomi M., Nomura S., Norheim O.F., Noroozi M., Norrving B., Noubiap J.J., Nouri H.R., Shiadeh M.N., Nowroozi M.R., Nsoesie E.O., Nyasulu P.S., Obermeyer C.M., Odell C.M., Ofori-Asenso R., Ogbo F.A., Oh I.-H., Oladimeji O., Olagunju A.T., Olagunju T.O., Olivares P.R., Olsen H.E., Olusanya B.O., Olusanya J.O., Ong K.L., Ong S.K., Oren E., Orpana H.M., Ortiz A., Ota E., Otstavnov S.S., Overland S., Owolabi M.O., Mahesh P., Pacella R., Pakhare A.P., Pakpour A.H., Pana A., Panda-Jonas S., Park E.-K., Parry C.D.H., Parsian H., Patel S., Pati S., Patil S.T., Patle A., Patton G.C., Paudel D., Paulson K.R., Ballesteros W.C.P., Pearce N., Pereira A., Pereira D.M., Perico N., Pesudovs K., Petzold M., Pham H.Q., Phillips M.R., Pillay J.D., Piradov M.A., Pirsaheb M., Pischon T., Pishgar F., Plana-Ripoll O., Plass D., Polinder S., Polkinghorne K.R., Postma M.J., Poulton R., Pourshams A., Poustchi H., Prabhakaran D., Prakash S., Prasad N., Purcell C.A., Purwar M.B., Qorbani M., Radfar A., Rafay A., Rafiei A., Rahim F., Rahimi Z., Rahimi-Movaghar A., Rahimi-Movaghar V., Rahman M., Rahman M.H.U., Rahman M.A., Rai R.K., Rajati F., Rajsic S., Raju S.B., Ram U., Ranabhat C.L., Ranjan P., Rath G.K., Rawaf D.L., Rawaf S., Reddy K.S., Rehm C.D., Rehm J., Reiner R.C., Reitsma M.B., Remuzzi G., Renzaho A.M.N., Resnikoff S., Reynales-Shigematsu L.M., Rezaei S., Ribeiro A.L.P., Rivera J.A., Roba K.T., Rodríguez-Ramírez S., Roever L., Román Y., Ronfani L., Roshandel G., Rostami A., Roth G.A., Rothenbacher D., Roy A., Rubagotti E., Rushton L., Sabanayagam C., Sachdev P.S., Saddik B., Sadeghi E., Moghaddam S.S., Safari H., Safari Y., Safari-Faramani R., Safdarian M., Safi S., Safiri S., Sagar R., Sahebkar A., Sahraian M.A., Sajadi H.S., Salam N., Salamati P., Saleem Z., Salimi Y., Salimzadeh H., Salomon J.A., Salvi D.D., Salz I., Samy A.M., Sanabria J., Sanchez-Nino M.D., Sánchez-Pimienta T.G., Sanders T., Sang Y., Santomauro D.F., Santos I.S., Santos J.V., Milicevic M.M.S., Jose B.P.S., Sardana M., Sarker A.R., Sarmiento-Suárez R., Sarrafzadegan N., Sartorius B., Sarvi S., Sathian B., Satpathy M., Sawant A.R., Sawhney M., Saylan M., Sayyah M., Schaeffner E., Schmidt M.I., Schneider I.J.C., Schöttker B., Schutte A.E., Schwebel D.C., Schwendicke F., Scott J.G., Seedat S., Sekerija M., Sepanlou S.G., Serre M.L., Serván-Mori E., Seyedmousavi S., Shabaninejad H., Shaddick G., Shafieesabet A., Shahbazi M., Shaheen A.A., Shaikh M.A., Levy T.S., Shams-Beyranvand M., Shamsi M., Sharafi H., Sharafi K., Sharif M., Sharif-Alhoseini M., Sharifi H., Sharma J., Sharma M., Sharma R., She J., Sheikh A., Shi P., Shibuya K., Shiferaw M.S., Shigematsu M., Shin M.-J., Shiri R., Shirkoohi R., Shiue I., Shokraneh F., Shoman H., Shrime M.G., Shupler M.S., Si S., Siabani S., Sibai A.M., Siddiqi T.J., Sigfusdottir I.D., Sigurvinsdottir R., Silva D.A.S., Silva J.P., Silveira D.G.A., Singh J.A., Singh N.P., Singh V., Sinha D.N., Skiadaresi E., Skirbekk V., Smith D.L., Smith M., Sobaih B.H., Sobhani S., Somayaji R., Soofi M., Sorensen R.J.D., Soriano J.B., Soyiri I.N., Spinelli A., Sposato L.A., Sreeramareddy C.T., Srinivasan V., Starodubov V.I., Steckling N., Stein D.J., Stein M.B., Stevanovic G., Stockfelt L., Stokes M.A., Sturua L., Subart M.L., Sudaryanto A., Sufiyan M.B., Sulo G., Sunguya B.F., Sur P.J., Sykes B.L., Szoeke C.E.I., Tabarés-Seisdedos R., Tabuchi T., Tadakamadla S.K., Takahashi K., Tandon N., Tassew S.G., Tavakkoli M., Taveira N., Tehrani-Banihashemi A., Tekalign T.G., Tekelemedhin S.W., Tekle M.G., Temesgen H., Temsah M.-H., Temsah O., Terkawi A.S., Tessema B., Teweldemedhin M., Thankappan K.R., Theis A., Thirunavukkarasu S., Thomas H.J., Thomas M.L., Thomas N., Thurston G.D., Tilahun B., Tillmann T., To Q.G., Tobollik M., Tonelli M., Topor-Madry R., Torre A.E., Tortajada-Girbés M., Touvier M., Tovani-Palone M.R., Towbin J.A., Tran B.X., Tran K.B., Truelsen T.C., Truong N.T., Tsadik A.G., Car L.T., Tuzcu E.M., Tymeson H.D., Tyrovolas S., Ukwaja K.N., Ullah I., Updike R.L., Usman M.S., Uthman O.A., Vaduganathan M., Vaezi A., Valdez P.R., Van Donkelaar A., Varavikova E., Varughese S., Vasankari T.J., Venkateswaran V., Venketasubramanian N., Villafaina S., Violante F.S., Vladimirov S.K., Vlassov V., Vollset S.E., Vos T., Vosoughi K., Vu G.T., Vujcic I.S., Wagnew F.S., Waheed Y., Waller S.G., Walson J.L., Wang Y., Wang Y., Wang Y.-P., Weiderpass E., Weintraub R.G., Weldegebreal F., Werdecker A., Werkneh A.A., West J.J., Westerman R., Whiteford H.A., Widecka J., Wijeratne T., Winkler A.S., Wiyeh A.B., Wiysonge C.S., Wolfe C.D.A., Wong T.Y., Wu S., Xavier D., Xu G., Yadgir S., Yadollahpour A., Jabbari S.H.Y., Yamada T., Yan L.L., Yano Y., Yaseri M., Yasin Y.J., Yeshaneh A., Yimer E.M., Yip P., Yisma E., Yonemoto N., Yoon S.-J., Yotebieng M., Younis M.Z., Yousefifard M., Yu C., Zaidi Z., Zaman S.B., Zamani M., Zavala-Arciniega L., Zhang A.L., Zhang H., Zhang K., Zhou M., Zimsen S.R.M., Zodpey S., Murray C.J.L., GBD 2017 Risk Factor Collaborators (2018)
      Background The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2017 comparative risk assessment (CRA) is a comprehensive approach to risk factor quantification that offers a useful tool for synthesising ...
    • Heat Tolerance and Occupational Heat Exposure Limits in Older Men with and without Type 2 Diabetes or Hypertension 

      Notley S.R., Akerman A.P., Friesen B.J., Poirier M.P., Sigal R.J., Flouris A.D., Boulay P., McCourt E., Ruzicka M., Kenny G.P. (2021)
      Purpose To mitigate rises in core temperature >1°C, the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) recommends upper limits for heat stress (action limit values [ALV]), defined by wet-bulb globe ...
    • Heat tolerance and the validity of occupational heat exposure limits in women during moderate-intensity work 

      Notley S.R., Akerman A.P., Friesen B.J., Poirier M.P., McCourt E., Flouris A.D., Kenny G.P. (2022)
      To mitigate excessive rises in core temperature (>1◦C) in non-heat acclimatized workers, the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) provides heat stress limits (Action Limit Values; ALV), ...
    • Heat waves occurrence and outdoor workers’ self-assessment of heat stress in slovenia and greece 

      Pogačar T., Žnidaršič Z., Bogataj L.K., Flouris A.D., Poulianiti K., Črepinšek Z. (2019)
      Changing patterns of heat waves are part of the global warming effect and the importance of changes is reinforced by their negative impact on society. Firstly, heat waves were analyzed in Brnik (Slovenia) and Larisa (Greece) ...
    • High prevalence of hypohydration in occupations with heat stress - Perspectives for performance in combined cognitive and motor tasks 

      Piil J.F., Lundbye-Jensen J., Christiansen L., Ioannou L., Tsoutsoubi L., Dallas C.N., Mantzios K., Flouris A.D., Nybo L. (2018)
      Purpose: To evaluate the prevalence of dehydration in occupational settings and contextualize findings to effects on performance in cognitively dominated tasks, simple and complex motor tasks during moderate and high heat ...
    • Increased frequency of rheumatoid arthritis and allergic rhinitis among pesticide sprayers and associations with pesticide use 

      Koureas M., Rachiotis G., Tsakalof A., Hadjichristodoulou C. (2017)
      Objective: The aim of this study was to identify diseases linked with the pesticide sprayer occupation and explore possible associations with exposure history data. Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted among ...
    • Increasing incidence of melanoma in central Greece: A retrospective epidemiology study 

      Roussaki-Schulze, A. V.; Rammos, C.; Rallis, E.; Terzis, A.; Archontonis, N.; Sarmanta, A.; Klimi, E.; Zafiriou, E. (2005)
      The increasing incidence of melanoma in the general population during the last few decades has provoked a great deal of research, aiming to identify the possible relationship between old and new etiological factors involved ...
    • Occupational electromagnetic spectrum hazards and the significance of artificial optical radiation: country report for Greece 

      Gourzoulidis G.A., Karabetsos E., Bouroussis C.A., Tyrakis C., Flouris A.D., Vourgidis N., Maris T.G., Topalis F.V. (2022)
      Background: The electromagnetic spectrum spans over an enormous range from 0 up to more than 1020 Hz in the deep ionizing region, significant exposures exist in specific occupational environments. Between the ionizing and ...
    • Occupational exposure and radiobiological risk from thyroid radioiodine therapy in Saudi Arabia 

      Al-Mohammed H.I., Sulieman A., Mayhoub F.H., Salah H., Lagarde C., Alkhorayef M., Aldhebaib A., Kappas C., Bradley D.A. (2021)
      Worldwide, thyroid cancer accounts for some 10% of total cancer incidence, most markedly for females. Thyroid cancer radiotherapy, typically using 131I (T1/2 8.02 days; β− max energy 606 keV, branching ratio 89.9%), is ...
    • Occupational exposure to electromagnetic fields. The situation in Greece 

      Gourzoulidis G.A., Tsaprouni P., Skamnakis Ν., Tzoumanika C., Kalampaliki E., Karastergios E., Gialofas A., Achtipis A., Kappas C., Karabetsos E. (2018)
      Purpose: The management of the occupational exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF), an Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) issue of great scientific, social and economic significance, was under intense negotiations at ...
    • Occupational heat stress management: Does one size fit all? 

      Notley S.R., Flouris A.D., Kenny G.P. (2019)
      Heat stress is a deadly occupational hazard that is projected to increase in severity with global warming. While upper limits for heat stress designed to protect all workers have been recommended by occupational safety ...