Occupational & Environmental Medicine (OEM)

is a peer-reviewed journal covering hazards in the workplace and their health effects.

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OEM is an international peer reviewed journal that publishes high quality research relating to the full range of chemical, physical, ergonomic, biological and psychosocial hazards in the workplace and to environmental contaminants and their health effects.

OEM is the official journal of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of London, the Australian and New Zealand Society of Occupational Medicine (ANZSOM), and the Scientific Committee on Epidemiology in Occupational Health (EPICOH).

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Editor-in-Chief: Professor Hans Kromhout, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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OEM is a Plan S compliant Transformative Journal.

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Occupational and Environmental Medicine considers unsolicited submissions of a variety of article types, including original research, systematic reviews, and short reports.

The Author Information section provides general guidelines and requirements for specific article types.

Information is also provided on editorial policies and open access.

All manuscripts should be submitted online.

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Latest Articles

Commentary:

Estimating the relationship between precarious employment and occupational injury: do the registry data tell the whole story?

14 March 2023

Workplace:

Precarious employment and occupational injuries in Sweden between 2006 and 2014: a register-based study

14 March 2023

Workplace:

Incidence and mortality from malignant mesothelioma 1982-2020 and relationship with asbestos exposure: the Australian Mesothelioma Registry

14 March 2023

Workplace:

Health outcomes among offspring of US Coast Guard responders to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, 2010-2011

14 March 2023

Workplace:

Association between prolonged exposure to long working hours and stroke subtypes in the CONSTANCES cohort

14 March 2023

Editor’s Choice

Workplace:

Association between prolonged exposure to long working hours and stroke subtypes in the CONSTANCES cohort

14 March 2023

Workplace:

Trends in fatal occupational injury rates among older workers before and after the Great Recession of 2008

14 February 2023

Workplace:

Malignant mesothelioma among US Medicare beneficiaries: incidence, prevalence and therapy, 2016–2019

18 January 2023

Systematic review:

Ever and cumulative occupational exposure and lung function decline in longitudinal population-based studies: a systematic review and meta-analysis

14 December 2022

Workplace:

Effects of the Labour Inspectorate Authority’s regulatory tools on psychosocial and biomechanical work factors in Norwegian home care services: a cluster randomised controlled trial

15 November 2022

Open Access Articles

Workplace:

Precarious employment and occupational injuries in Sweden between 2006 and 2014: a register-based study

14 March 2023

Systematic review:

Universal, selective and indicated interventions for supporting mental health at the workplace: an umbrella review of meta-analyses

14 March 2023

Workplace:

Occupational risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection: a nationwide register-based study of the Danish workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020–2021

14 March 2023

Exposure assessment:

Sick leave due to COVID-19 during the first pandemic wave in France, 2020

13 March 2023

Editorial:

IARC-NCI workshop on an epidemiological toolkit to assess biases in human cancer studies for hazard identification: beyond the algorithm

14 February 2023

OEM is now an official journal of EPICOH

We are delighted to announce that OEM is an official journal of the Scientific Committee on Epidemiology in Occupational Health (EPICOH).

OEM and EPICOH have had a long-standing collaboration that has been cemented via a formal affiliation agreement. As part of this new arrangement, EPICOH members are entitled to a special discount on personal subscriptions to the journal. Members should contact EPICOH for further information on how to take advantage of this offer.

OEM is the official journal of the EPICOH 2023 conference, due to be held in Mumbai in March 2023, with the theme "Occupational Health Epidemiology: Need for Concerted Action". OEM was previously the official journal of the EPICOH 2021 Conference with the theme of "From the Workplace to the Population: Exposure and Prevention". The conference abstracts were published by OEM and are free to read.