Category: Oral Presentations

O5 COHORT STUDY OF UK GLASS-REINFORCED PLASTICS MANUFACTURING WORKERS D. M. McElvenny1, W. Mueller1, L. Darnton2, F. Brooker1, M. W. Christensen3, H. Kolstad3 1IOM, Edinburgh, UK 2HSE, Bootle, UK 3Aarhus University, Denmark Styrene is present in air pollution and tobacco smoke and it a high production volume chemical.  Occupational exposures to styrene are highest in...

O4 COMMUNITY REINFORCEMENT APPROACH AND FAMILY TRAINING (CRAFT) TO IMPROVE HELPSEEKING AND WELLBEING N. Greenberg, King’s College London, UK Background: Close family members can have a key role in encouraging military veterans to seek help for their mental health. Community Reinforcement Approach and Family Training (CRAFT) was developed to equip concerned significant others (CSOs) of...

O3 MORTALITY STUDY OF FORMER PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALLERS IN ENGLAND AND WALES (MORSE STUDY) D. M. McElvenny1, W. Mueller1, F. S. Carson1, F. Brooker1, I. Basinas2, M. U. van Tongeren2, V. Gallo3 1IOM, Edinburgh, UK 2University of Manchester, UK 3University of Groningen, The Netherlands Evidence is growing that former professional athletes, in particular association footballers, are...

O2 EXPLORING EXPERIENCES OF WORKPLACE LONELINESS: IDENTIFYING RISK FACTORS AND CONSEQUENCES FOR HEALTH AND OCCUPATIONAL FUNCTIONING B. T. Bryan, King’s College London, UK Concern around the health and economic impact of workplace loneliness has grown in recent years, with a recent report from the UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Tackling Loneliness and Connected Communities...

O1 QUANTIFYING THE IMPACT OF CHRONIC PAIN ON WORK M. J. Stevens1, L. Morton1, R. S. Anderson1, E. Wainwright1, S. Verstappen2, N. Goodson3, N. Fear4, P. McNamee5, K. Walker-Bone6, I. Madan7, R. J. Hollick1, G. J. Macfarlane1 1Versus Arthritis/Medical Research Council Centre for Musculoskeletal Health and Work (University of Aberdeen), UK 2Versus Arthritis/Medical Research Council...

V. Parsons1, S. Pattani2, A. Gilbey3, I. Madan1, C. Harling4, R. Muiry1, A. De Bono5 1Guy's and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, UK 2London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust, UK 3NHS Health at Work Network, UK 4University of Southampton, UK 5University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, UK   A commissioned project to define the...

R. J. L. Heron, IOMSC, UK The International Occupational Medicine Society Collaborative (IOMSC) was established in 2013 as an assembly for representatives of occupational medicine societies to promote greater awareness of issues and best practices for better worker health worldwide. It has grown to 48 societies in 43 countries, representing more than 30,000 occupational medicine...

F. M. Ryan1, D. Border2, M. Bhattacharyya3 1Department of Health and Social Care 2UK Health Security Agency; Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust 3UK Health Security Agency; BHSF Ltd, London, UK   Background: The COVID-19 pandemic raised the profile and secured the relationship between occupational medicine (OM) and public health (PH)[1]. Throughout, testing for COVID-19 was...

R. Dobson, R. O. O'Donnell, D. Eadie, S. Semple University of Stirling, UK   Background Second-hand smoke (SHS) is harmful to health. Since 2006/7 the UK has reduced the number of workers exposed to SHS significantly. Data from Scotland indicates the proportion of non-smoking adults exposed to SHS has fallen from 83% to 19%, with...

I.R. Stilz1, M. Freire de Carvalho2, S. Toner3, H. Berg4 1Shell Occupational Health Services, London, UK 2Shell International, Houston USA 3Johnson and Johnson, The Netherlands 4Shell International, The Hague, The Netherlands   Background Telemedicine is increasingly used to enhance medical care provision in a range of health care settings, including populations in rural or remote...