S-1 in Patients with Advanced Esophagogastric Adenocarcinoma: Results from the Safety Compliance Observatory on Oral fluoroPyrimidines (SCOOP) Study

The readymade garment (RMG) sector is one of the main drivers of the Bangladesh economy with over 4 million employed. In the 2013 Rana Plaza accident aftermath, the implementation of workplace safety compliance (WSC) became imperative. The paper investigated the WSC initiatives implemented by the RMG sector to overcome safety challenges and their effectiveness for a safe and healthy workplace. We employed a multi-case study research strategy over three Bangladeshi garment manufacturers to resolve these queries. The result revealed that the manufacturers joined in the safety governance programs to protect workers’ health safety rights immediately after the accidents. They participated in inspections and remediations programs over structural, electrical, and fire protection as a priority. Moreover, several other human rights conventions, national labor laws and, buyer code of conduct were also adopted as regulatory and voluntary initiatives to settle workers’ health rights and social needs. The WSC enforcement empowered workers to bargain their rights toward a safe workplace and made them responsible for responding during an emergency. Finally, the paper argues that the WSC in the RMG sector nowadays covers a wide range of initiatives in three broad areas: physical environment safety, workers’ health issues, and workers’ rights.

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A randomized phase 2 trial of first-line docetaxel, carboplatin, capecitabine (CTX) and epirubicin, oxaliplatin, capecitabine (EOX) in advanced esophagogastric adenocarcinoma

Acta Oncologica ◽

10.1080/0284186x.2021.1928281 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-6

Author(s):

Peter C. Petersen ◽

Lone N. Petersen ◽

Ivan Vogelius ◽

Jon K. Bjerregaard ◽

Lene Baeksgaard

Keyword(s):

Phase 2 ◽

First Line ◽

Phase 2 Trial ◽

Randomized Phase 2 ◽

Esophagogastric Adenocarcinoma

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A Public Safety Compliance Model of Safety Behaviors in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic

INQUIRY The Journal of Health Care Organization Provision and Financing ◽

10.1177/00469580211031382 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 58 ◽

pp. 004695802110313

Author(s):

Mohammad Al-Bsheish ◽

Mu’taman Jarrar ◽

Amanda Scarbrough

Keyword(s):

Public Safety ◽

The Other ◽

Safety Behaviors ◽

Economic Sectors ◽

The Public ◽

Safety Compliance ◽

Heavy Burden ◽

Compliance Model ◽

Entire World ◽

The One

The outbreak of COVID-19 has placed a heavy burden on society, threatening the future of the entire world as the pandemic has hit health systems and economic sectors hard. Where time moves fast, continuing curfews and lockdown is impossible. This paper assembles three main safety behaviors, social distancing, wearing a facemask, and hygiene in one model (PSC Triangle) to be practiced by the public. Integrating public safety compliance with these behaviors is the main recommendation to slow the spread of COVID-19. Although some concerns and challenges face these practices, the shifting of public behaviors to be more safety-centered is appropriate and available as an urgent desire exists to return to normal life on the one hand and the medical effort to find effective cure or vaccine that has not yet succeeded on the other hand. Recommendations to enhance public safety compliance are provided.

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