Table of contents

Original articles

Workplace

• Original article: Effect of an office ergonomic randomised controlled trial among workers with neck and upper extremity pain (16 September, 2014) Free

  Jonathan Dropkin, Hyun Kim, Laura Punnett, David H Wegman, Nicholas Warren, Bryan Buchholz
• Original article: Comparison of musculoskeletal disorder health claims between construction floor layers and a general working population (15 September, 2014) Free

  Ann Marie Dale, Daniel Ryan, Laura Welch, Margaret A Olsen, Bryan Buchholz, Bradley Evanoff
• Original article: Genetic susceptibility to beryllium: a case–referent study of men and women of working age with sarcoidosis or other chronic lung disease (10 October, 2014) Free

  Nicola Cherry, Jeremy Beach, Igor Burstyn, Jillian Parboosingh, Janine Schouchen, Ambikaipakan Senthilselvan, Larry Svenson, Jan Tamminga, Niko Yiannakoulias
• Original article: Long-term consequences of alcohol misuse in Scottish military veterans (1 October, 2014) Free

  Beverly P Bergman, Daniel F Mackay, Jill P Pell
• Original article: Biomechanical risk factors for carpal tunnel syndrome: a pooled study of 2474 workers (16 October, 2014)

  Carisa Harris-Adamson, Ellen A Eisen, Jay Kapellusch, Arun Garg, Kurt T Hegmann, Matthew S Thiese, Ann Marie Dale, Bradley Evanoff, Susan Burt, Stephen Bao, Barbara Silverstein, Linda Merlino, Fred Gerr, David Rempel

Environment

• Original article: Long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution and the incidence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in a national English cohort (20 August, 2014)

  R W Atkinson, I M Carey, A J Kent, T P van Staa, H R Anderson, D G Cook
• Original article: Associations between three specific a-cellular measures of the oxidative potential of particulate matter and markers of acute airway and nasal inflammation in healthy volunteers (7 August, 2014) Free

  Nicole A H Janssen, Maciej Strak, Aileen Yang, Bryan Hellack, Frank J Kelly, Thomas A J Kuhlbusch, Roy M Harrison, Bert Brunekreef, Flemming R Cassee, Maaike Steenhof, Gerard Hoek

Exposure assessment

• Original article: Exposure of hairdressers to ortho- and meta-toluidine in hair dyes (9 June, 2014)

  Gabriella M Johansson, Bo A G Jönsson, Anna Axmon, Christian H Lindh, Marie-Louise Lind, Mats Gustavsson, Karin Broberg, Anders Boman, Birgitta Meding, Carola Lidén, Maria Albin
• Original article: CAREX Canada: an enhanced model for assessing occupational carcinogen exposure (26 June, 2014)

  Cheryl E Peters, Calvin B Ge, Amy L Hall, Hugh W Davies, Paul A Demers