Defined as electronic devices that can be worn on the body, wearables have seen huge growth in use prior to the pandemic. Given the heightened risk of COVID-19 transmission in workplaces and the need to ‘learn to live’ with the virus moving forwards, it is important...
Greater Manchester is an area of enduring prevalence. Risk of transmission in many of its local authority areas were based around workplaces. Researchers on Theme 3 of the PROTECT NCS sought to explore in depth key components to reduce the risk of workplace...
The Food and drink processing industry (FDPI) represent an essential sector that maintained operations throughout the pandemic and periods of lockdown, and thus were considered at potential risk for work-related outbreaks of COVID-19. Researchers on Theme 3 of the...
UK local authorities that experience sustained high levels of COVID-19 are termed areas of enduring prevalence according to the UK Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (2021) This report from researchers on Theme 3 of the PROTECT NCS, examines the mitigation...
UK local authorities that experience sustained high levels of COVID-19 are termed areas of enduring prevalence according to the UK Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (2021)This report, from researchers on Theme 3 of the PROTECT NCS , examines key drivers of...
The need to protect workers from COVID-19 is a persistent issue with debate around the degree to which SARS-CoV-2 transmission occurs in the workplace and which occupations are most affected, with calls for COVID-19 to be classified as an occupational disease....
This study aimed to describe the proportion of deaths from Covid-19 in a range of occupational groups, how those proportions compare to a ‘non-essential’ worker group, and whether the proportionate odds have changed over the pandemic (January 2020 – October 2021), in...
Public transport is one of a number of occupational and industrial sectors being specifically examined as part of Theme 3 of the PROTECT study. This report describes qualitative research carried out between December 2021 and February 2022 on perceptions of the risk of...
The Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM) are looking for an experienced Qualitative Research Scientist/Psychologist to join it's team and help deliver existing research projects focused on understanding COVID -19 transmission, and the interrelationship between...
Food processing facilities represent critical infrastructure that have stayed open during much of the COVID-19 pandemic. Understanding the burden of COVID-19 in this sector is thus important to help reduce the potential for workplace infection in future...
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