Assessment of safety climate status in personnel of Naeen Tile Industries Company in 2019

Introduction: safety occupational safety researchers have always analyzed climate analysis. Climate can be investigated at different organizational levels. The purpose of the present study was to examine the safety climate among Nain tile factory workers and its relationship with having a history of occupational accidents. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional and descriptive-analytical study was conducted in 2019 among the Nain Tile factory staff. The Nordic Safety Climate Questionnaire (NOSACQ-50) was used to assess the safety climate among workers of the different organizational departments. Out of 252, 142 workers were selected by simple random sampling. Descriptive and analytical statistics were used to analyze the data. The instrument's internal consistency was also calculated by calculating Richardson's coefficient of coefficient 0.942.coefficients were used for analytical analysis. Analyzes were performed in SPSS software version 19 with a significance level of 5%. Results: The reliability coefficient of the whole questionnaire was calculated 0.95 using Cronbach's alpha test. The safety climate score was higher than two in all domains. Safety climate score was significantly correlated with work area and shift type. The highest score of safety climate was in the crusher section as well as in day shift work. There was no significant relationship between safety climate score and other variables of the study. Conclusion: The safety atmosphere score is affected by the day shift and the workplace section. Therefore, it is suggested to modify the job plan and work shifts to improve the prevailing safety climate.

The role of physical activity on blood factors, lipid profile, and liver enzymes of tile factory workers (A Case Study)

Introduction: Inhalation of dust particles is prone to chronic diseases, and regular exercise reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease and improves blood variables. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of physical activity on blood factors, lipid profile, and liver enzymes in tile factory workers. Materials and Methods: This is a cross-sectional study. 70 workers who were eligible to participate in the study were selected based on the sampling method available at the workplace. According to the Beck questionnaire, 15 people were included in each active and inactive groups. After 12 hours of worker's last meal, 10 ml of venous blood was used to evaluate biochemical variables of Blood factors (RBC, Hematocrit, Hemoglobin, WBC), lipid profile (Cholesterol, Triglyceride). Liver enzyme (ALT, AST, ALP) tests of both groups were performed in the occupational medicine laboratory of Meybod city, and SPSS Ver.23 software was used for analysis. Results: The results showed that red blood cells (p = 0.003) and hemoglobin (p = 0.034) in the active group were significantly higher than the inactive group. Also triglyceride (p = 0.025) and cholesterol (p = 0.042) of liver enzymes, (p = 0.011) ALT and AST (p = 0.047) were significantly lower. Conclusion: It seems that physical activity can have a positive effect; it can improve blood factors, liver enzymes, and fat profile in workers. According to the results, tile factory workers can achieve the desired blood factors with minimal physical activity.

Malignant Mesothelioma after Household Exposure to Asbestos

Malignant mesothelioma (MM) is an aggressive cancer that has been closely linked to asbestos exposure. Initially recognized as an occupational cancer in male workers, MM was later found to occur in their family members as well. We report the case of an 89-year-old female who presented with abdominal distention, pain, and findings consistent with malignant ascites. Family history was significant for fatal mesothelioma in her husband of 40 years, who was a worker at a tile factory. The diagnosis of MM was confirmed on pathologic examination of the omental core biopsy.

A Lost Tile Pavement at Tewkesbury Abbey and an Early Fourteenth-Century Tile Factory

The products of a tilery working in the Welsh marches in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries with a probable production centre at Hereford, can be identified at a number of sites through petrological analysis. The accuracy of the heraldic tiles allows careful analysis from which dates, and possible commissions may be identified.The tilery began the production of accurate heraldic designs c. 1260. These were augmented by Chertsey-Halesown copies around the turn of the thirteenth-fourteenth centuries. The production of heraldic tiles was stepped up in the 1320s, as a result of the filling of at least one large order, for the chapel of St Peter at Ludlow Castle, in 1328. A further commission was made between 1328 and 1339, for the church at Bredon. Probably as early as the 1330s the Malvern Chase industry was beginning, and this industry had acquired stamps from the Hereford tilers by the middle of the century.