Table of contents

Original articles

Workplace

• Original article: Association between pain catastrophising and musculoskeletal disorders is modified by past injuries in Malaysian military recruits (24 March, 2016)

  F H Mohd Din, Sanjay Rampal, M A Muslan, Victor C W Hoe
• Original article: Environmental and occupational particulate matter exposures and ectopic heart beats in welders (6 April, 2016) Free

  Jennifer M Cavallari, Shona C Fang, Ellen A Eisen, Murray A Mittleman, David C Christiani
• Original article: Prediction of all-cause occupational disability among US Army soldiers (29 April, 2016)

  D Alan Nelson, Vickee L Wolcott, Lianne M Kurina
• Original article: International perspective on common core competencies for occupational physicians: a modified Delphi study (13 April, 2016)

  Drushca Lalloo, Evangelia Demou, Sibel Kiran, Marianne Cloeren, René Mendes, Ewan B Macdonald
• Original article:

  Sputum neutrophils are elevated in smelter workers, and systemic neutrophils are associated with rapid decline in FEV₁

  (6 April, 2016)

  Liv Ingunn Bjoner Sikkeland, Helle Laier Johnsen, Tonje Bøyum Riste, Neil E Alexis, Bente Halvorsen, Vidar Søyseth, Johny Kongerud

Exposure assessment

• Original article: Personal exposure to ultrafine particles from PVC welding and concrete work during tunnel rehabilitation (25 March, 2016)

  Rikke Bramming Jørgensen, Morten Buhagen, Solveig Føreland
• Original article: Impact of aggregating exposure information from cases and controls when building a population-based job-exposure matrix from past expert evaluations (30 March, 2016)

  Tracy L Kirkham, Jack Siemiatycki, France Labrèche, Jérôme Lavoué