Submissions from 2017
Cytotoxicity assessment, inflammatory properties, and cellular uptake of Neutraplex lipid-based nanoparticles in THP-1 monocyte-derived macrophages, Eric Berger, Dalibor Breznan, Sandra Stals, Viraj J Jasinghe, David Gonçalves, Denis Girard, Sylvie Faucher, Renaud Vincent, Alain R Thierry, and Carole Lavigne
Comparison of methods to evaluate the fungal biomass in heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) dust, Marie-Jeanne Biyeyeme Mve Bi, Yves Cloutier, Nancy Lacombe, Jacques Lavoie, Maximilien Debia, and Geneviève Marchand
Workers’ exposure to bioaerosols from three different types of composting facilities, Laetitia Bonifait, Geneviève Marchand, Marc Veillette, Hamza Mbareche, Marie-Ève Dubuis, Carole Pépin, Yves Cloutier, Yves Bernard, and Caroline Duchaine
Loudness in the occluded ear canal: Are we again missing 6 dB?, Fabien Bonnet, Jérémie Voix, and Hugues Nélisse
The effect of two lumbar belt designs on trunk repositioning sense in people with and without low back pain, Jean-Alexandre Boucher, Nicolas Roy, Richard Preuss, and Christian Larivière
Improving control of contamination from waste rock piles, Stefan Broda, Michel Aubertin, Daniela Blessent, Eugenia Hirthe, and Thomas Graf
Stratégies de retour au travail d’employés ayant fait l’expérience d’une dépression : perspectives des employeurs et des cadres de ressources humaines, Marc Corbière, Tania Lecomte, Jean-Philippe Lachance, Marie-France Coutu, Alessia Negrini, and Sonia Laberon
Development of the Return-to-Work Obstacles and Self-Efficacy Scale (ROSES) and validation with workers suffering from a common mental disorder or musculoskeletal disorder, Marc Corbière, Alessia Negrini, Marie-José Durand, Louise St-Arnaud, Catherine Briand, Jean-Baptiste Fassier, Patrick Loisel, and Jean-Philippe Lachance
Erratum to: Development of the Return-to-Work Obstacles and Self-Efficacy Scale (ROSES) and validation with workers suffering from a common mental disorder or musculoskeletal disorder, Marc Corbière, Alessia Negrini, Marie-José Durand, Louise St-Arnaud, Catherine Criand, Jean-Baptiste Fassier, Patrick Loisel, and Jean-Philippe Lachance
Improving the health and safety of 911 emergency call centre agents: An evaluability assessment of a knowledge transfer strategy, Christian Dagenais, Laurence Plouffe, Charles Gagné, Georges Toulouse, Andrée-Anne Breault, and Didier Dupont
Diesel engine exhaust exposures in two underground mines, Maximilien Debia, Caroline Couture, Pierre-Eric Njanga, Eve Neesham-Grenon, Guillaume Lachapelle, Hugo Coulombe, Stéphane Hallé, and Simon Aubin
Analytical evaluation of stresses and displacements of an intervertebral disc, Sébastien Demers, Sylvie Nadeau, and Abdel-Hakim Bouzid
L’accompagnement au poste de travail des assembleurs du secteur aéronautique : réalités et défis, Denys Denis, Maud Gonella, Élise Ledoux, Bénédicte Calvet, and Marie Comeau
Bioaerosols concentrations in working areas in biomethanization facilities, Marie-Ève Dubuis, Hamza Mbareche, Marc Veillette, Bouchra Bakhiyi, Joseph Zayed, Jacques Lavoie, and Caroline Duchaine
Practices of return-to-work coordinators working in large organizations, Marie-José Durand, Iuliana Nastasia, Marie-France Coutu, and Michael Bernier
Evaluation of the in vitro and in vivo proinflammatory activities of gold (+) and gold (-) nanoparticles, Isabelle Durocher, Claudie Noël, Valérie Lavastre, and Denis Girard
A finite element model to improve noise reduction based attenuation measurement of earmuffs in a directional sound field, Marc-André Gaudreau, Franck Sgard, Frédéric Laville, and Hugues Nélisse
Obesity and obesity shape markedly influence spine biomechanics: A subject-specific risk assessment model, Farshid Ghezelbash, Aboulfazl Shirazi-Adl, André Plamondon, Navid Arjmand, and Mohammad Parnianpour
Le retour au travail d’immigrants ayant subi une lésion professionnelle : les embûches de la rencontre interculturelle et la précarité du lien d’emploi, Sylvie Gravel, Jessica Dubé, Daniel Côté, Bob W. White, and Danielle Gratton
Fingers vibration transmission performance of vibration reducing gloves, Karim Hamouda, Subhash Rakheja, Pierre Marcotte, and Krishna N. Dewangan
Prediction of stress-strain behaviour and energy dissipation of textile protective materials at large deformations, Lotfi Harrabi, Tarek Abboud, Toan Vu-Khanh, Patricia I. Dolez, and Jaime Lara
Evaluating the validity of the Work Role Functioning Questionnaire (Canadian French version) using classical test theory and item response theory, Quan Nha Hong, Marie-France Coutu, and Djamal Berbiche
Application of logical analysis of data to machinery-related accident prevention based on scarce data, Sabrina Jocelyn, Yuvin Chinniah, Mohamed-Salah Ouali, and Soumaya Yacout
Exposure assessment in a single-walled carbon nanotube primary manufacturer, Serge Kouassi, Cyril Catto, Claude Ostiguy, Gilles L'Espérance, and Jence Kroeger
Occupational health and safety in a vocational training program: How gender impacts teachers’ strategies and power relationships [Santé et sécurité des stagiaires dans un programme de formation professionnelle : impact du genre sur les stratégies et rapports de pouvoir], Marie Laberge, Aurélie Tondoux, Fanny Camiré Tremblay, and Ellen MacEachen
Evaluation of a horizontal lifeline system used during installation of residential roofs, André Lan and Bertrand Galy
Milestones, barriers and beacons: Shared decision making in Canada inches ahead, France Légaré, Dawn Stacey, Pierre-Gerlier Forest, Marie-France Coutu, Patrick Archambault, Laura Boland, Holly O. Witteman, Annie LeBlanc, Krystina B. Lewis, and Anik M. C. Giguère
Numerical analysis of stress distribution in backfilled stopes considering interfaces between the backfill and rock walls, Guangsheng Liu, Li Li, Xiaocong Yang, and Lijie Guo
An investigation of the uniaxial compressive strength of a cemented hydraulic backfill made of alluvial sand, Guangsheng Liu, Li Li, Mike Yao, David Landry, Farid Malek, Xiaocong Yang, and Lijie Guo
Workers' perspectives on return to work after total knee arthroplasty, Pascale Maillette, Marie-France Coutu, and Nathaly Gaudreault
The organization of working time: Developing an understanding and action plan to promote workers’ health in a seasonal work context [L’organisation temporelle du travail : la comprendre pour développer des actions favorisant la santédes travailleuses en contexte de travail saisonnier], Marie-Eve Major and Nicole Vézina
Sensitivity to movement-evoked pain and multi-site pain are associated with work-disability following whiplash injury: A cross-sectional study, Tsipora Mankovsky-Arnold, Timothy H. Wideman, Pascal Thibault, Christian Larivière, Pierre Rainville, and Michael J. L. Sullivan
Simultaneous exposures to heat and chemicals and the impact on toxicokinetics and biomonitoring, Axelle Marchand and Sami Haddad
Assessment of workers’ exposure to grain dust and bioaerosols during the loading of vessels’ hold: An example at a port in the province of Québec, Geneviève Marchand, Marie Gardette, Kiet Nguyen, Valérie Amano, Eve Neesham-Grenon, and Maximilien Debia
Effect of accelerating voltage on beam damage of asbestos fibers in the transmission electron microscope (TEM), Joannie Martin, Martin Beauparlant, Sébastien Sauvé, and Gilles L'Espérance
Effect of temperature on beam damage of asbestos fibers in the transmission electron microscope (TEM) at 100 kV, Joannie Martin, Martin Beauparlant, Sébastien Sauvé, and Gilles L'Espérance
A next generation sequencing approach with a suitable bioinformatics workflow to study fungal diversity in bioaerosols released from two different types of composting plants, Hamza Mbareche, Marc Veillette, Laetitia Bonifait, Marie-Ève Dubuis, and Yves Bernard
Mass or total surface area with aerosol size distribution as exposure metrics for inflammatory, cytotoxic and oxidative lung responses in rats exposed to titanium dioxide nanoparticles, A. Noël, G. Truchon, Y. Cloutier, M. Charbonneau, K. Maghni, and R. Tardif
Time domain localization technique with sparsity constraint for imaging acoustic sources, Thomas Padois, Olivier Doutres, Franck Sgard, and Alain Berry
Acoustic source localization using a polyhedral microphone array and an improved generalized cross-correlation technique, Thomas Padois, Franck Sgard, Olivier Doutres, and Alain Berry
Difference between male and female workers lifting the same relative load when palletizing boxes, André Plamondon, Christian Larivière, Denys Denis, Hakim Mecheri, and Iuliana Nastasia
How reproducible is the acoustical characterization of porous media?, Francesco Pompoli, Paolo Bonfiglio, Kirill Horoshenkov, Amir Kahn, François-Xavier Bécot, Franck Sgard, Francesco Asdrubali, Francesco D'Alessandro, Jörn Hübelt, Noureddine Atala, Celse K. Amédin, Walter Lauriks, and Laurens Boeckx
Paramedics' working strategies while loading a stretcher into an ambulance, Jérôme Prairie, André Plamondon, Dominique Larouche, Sandrine Hegg-Deloye, and Philippe Corbeil
Use of the novel derivatizing agent 1,8-diaminonapthalene with the CIP10 sampler to measure 4,4'-methylene diphenyl diisocyanate atmospheres, Silvia Puscasu, Simon Aubin, Philippe Sarazin, Lucile Richard, Mark Spence, and Sébastien Gagné
Accuracy and repeatability of single-pose calibration of inertial measurement units for whole-body motion analysis, Xavier Robert-Lachaine, Hakim Mecheri, Christian Larue, and André Plamondon
Effect of local magnetic field disturbances on inertial measurement units accuracy, Xavier Robert-Lachaine, Hakim Mecheri, Christian Larue, and André Plamondon
Validation of inertial measurement units with an optoelectronic system for whole-body motion analysis, Xavier Robert-Lachaine, Hakim Mecheri, Christian Larue, and André Plamondon
The effect of an 8-week stabilization exercise program on the lumbopelvic rhythm and flexion-relaxation phenomenon, Ali Shahvarpour, Sharon M. Henry, Richard Preuss, Hakim Mecheri, and Christian Larivière
Numerical investigation of the stresses in backfilled stopes overlying a sill mat, Mohamed Amine Sobhi and Li Li
Return to work helps maintain treatment gains in the rehabilitation of whiplash injury, Michael J.L. Sullivan, Heather Adams, Pascal Thibault, E. Moore, and J. Carrière
Concentrations of disinfection by-products in swimming pools following modifications of the water treatment process: An exploratory study, Robert Tardif, Manuel Rodriguez, Cyril Catto, Ginette Charest-Tardif, and Sabrina Simard
The economic burden of lung cancer and mesothelioma due to occupational and para-occupational asbestos exposure, Emile Tompa, Christina Kalcevich, Christopher McLeod, Martin Lebeau, Chaojie Song, Kim McLeod, Joanne Kim, and Paul A. Demers
Combined puncture and cutting of elastomer membranes: A fracture energy approach, Ennouri Triki, Phuong Nguyen-Tri, Chantal Gauvin, and Toan Vu-Khanh
Effects of sweat and 3D-deformation on the mechanical behaviour of nitrile rubber gloves, Ludwig Vinches, Mohamed Zemzem, and Stéphane Hallé
Evolution of water table and pore-water pressure in stopes with submerged hydraulic fill, Pengyu Yang and Li Li
A new solution to assess the required strength of mine backfill with a vertical exposure, Pengyu Yang, Li Li, and Michel Aubertin
Stress ratios in entire mine stopes with cohesionless backfill: A numerical study, Pengyu Yang, Li Li, and Michel Aubertin
Stability analyses of waste rock barricades designed to retain paste backfill, Pengyu Yang, Li Li, Michel Aubertin, Marin Brochu-Baekelmans, and Serge Ouellet
Effects of entrapped gas within the fluid on the stiffness and damping characteristics of a hydro-pneumatic suspension strut, Yuming Yin, Subhash Rakheja, Jue Yang, and P.-E. Boileau
Experimental and modeling study of visible light responsive photocatalytic oxidation (PCO) materials for toluene degradation, Lexuan Zhong, James J. Brancho, Stuart Batterman, Bart M. Bartlett, and Christopher Godwin
Submissions from 2016
Using checklists and algorithms to improve qualitative exposure judgment accuracy, Susan F. Arnold, Mark Stenzel, Daniel Drolet, and Gurumurthy Ramachandran
Efficiency of five chemical protective clothing materials against nano and submicron aerosols when submitted to mechanical deformations, Mehdi Ben Salah, Stéphane Hallé, and Ludovic Tuduri
Time courses and variability of pyrethroid biomarkers of exposure in a group of agricultural workers in Quebec, Canada, Michèle Bouchard
The effects of an 8-week stabilization exercise program on lumbar movement sense in patients with low back pain, Jean-Alexandre Boucher, Richard Preuss, Sharon M. Henry, Jean-Pierre Dumas, and Christian Larivière
Risk analysis for confined space entries: Critical analysis of four tools applied to three risk scenarios, Damien Burlet-Vienney, Yuvin Chinniah, Ali Bahloul, and Brigitte Roberge
Green jobs: Definition and method of appraisal of chemical and biological risks, Erwan Cheneval, Marc-Antoine Busque, Claude Ostiguy, Jacques Lavoie, Robert Bourbonnais, France Labrèche, Bouchra Bakhiyi, and Joseph Zayed
Factors perceived by employees regarding their sick leave due to depression, Marc Corbière, Esther Samson, Alessia Negrini, Louise St-Arnaud, Marie-José Durand, Marie-France Coutu, Geneviève Sauvé, and Tania Lecomte
Simulated night shift disrupts circadian rhythms of immune functions in humans, Marc Cuesta, Philippe Boudreau, Geneviève Dubeau-Laramée, Nicolas Cermakian, and Diane B. Boivin
Physiological and psychological predictors of short-term disability in workers with a history of low back pain: A longitudinal study, Jean-Daniel Dubois, Vincent Cantin, Mathieu Piché, and Martin Descarreaux
Pratiques de retour au travail dans de grandes entreprises au Québec, Marie-José Durand, Marie-France Coutu, and Iuliana Nastasia
In vivo proinflammatory activity of generations 0-3 (G0-G3) polyamidoamine (PAMAM) nanoparticles, Isabelle Durocher and Denis Girard
Effects of variation in external pulling force magnitude, elevation, and orientation on trunk muscle forces, spinal loads and stability, Zakaria El Ouaaid, Aboulfazl Shirazi-Adl, and André Plamondon
Identification of methylene diphenyl diisocyanate thermal degradation products in a generation chamber by liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry, Sébastien Gagné and Yves Cloutier
A biomechanical comparison between expert and novice manual materials handlers using a multi-joint EMG-assisted optimization musculoskeletal model of the lumbar spine, Denis Gagnon, André Plamondon, and Christian Larivière
Subject-specific biomechanics of trunk: Musculoskeletal scaling, internal loads and intradiscal pressure estimation, Farshid Ghezelbash, Aboulfazl Shirazi-Adl, Navid Arjmand, A. El-Ouaaid, and André Plamondon
Effects of sex, age, body height and body weight on spinal loads: Sensitivity analyses in a subject-specific trunk musculoskeletal model, Farshid Ghezelbash, Aboulfazl Shirazi-Adl, Navid Arjmand, A. El-Ouaaid, André Plamondon, and J. R. Meakin
Cross-sectional area of human trunk paraspinal muscles before and after posterior lumbar surgery using magnetic resonance imaging, Mohammad S. Ghiasi, Navid Arjmand, Aboulfazl Shirazi-Adl, Farzam Farahmand, Hassan Hashemi, Sahar Bagheri, and Mahsa Valizadeh
Systematic evaluation of the adsorption of organic vapors onto a miniaturized cartridge device using breakthrough tests in parallel experiment with a full size respirator cartridge, Florence Janvier, Ludovic Tuduri, Daniel Cossement, Daniel Drolet, and Jaime Lara
Contribution of dynamic experience feedback to the quantitative estimation of risks for preventing accidents: A proposed methodology for machinery safety, Sabrina Jocelyn, Yuvin Chinniah, and Mohamed-Salah Ouali
Impact of aggregating exposure information from cases and controls when building a population-based job-exposure matrix from past expert evaluations, Tracy L. Kirkham, Jack Siemiatycki, France Labrèche, and Jérôme Lavoué
Classifying work rate from heart rate measurements using an adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system, Ahmet Kolus, Daniel Imbeau, Philippe-Antoine Dubé, and Denise Dubeau
Posture and lifting exposures for daycare workers, Adam Labaj, Tara Diesbourg, Geneviève Dumas, André Plamondon, Hakim Mecheri, and Christian Larue
Unexpected events: Learning opportunities or injury risks for apprentices in low-skilled jobs? A pilot study, Marie Laberge, Bénédicte Calvet, Marc Fredette, Nassim Tabet, Aurélie Tondoux, Dolores Bayard, and Curtis Breslin
But other than mesothelioma? An estimate of the proportion of work-related cancers in Quebec, France Labrèche, Patrice Duguay, Alexandre Boucher, and Robert Arcand
Using cartoons to transfer knowledge concerning the principles of work disability prevention among stakeholders, Marie-Elise Labrecque, Marie-France Coutu, Marie-José Durand, Jean-Baptiste Fassier, and Patrick Loisel
Prospective impact of psychiatric disorders on employment status and health care use in patients investigated for occupational asthma, Kim L. Lavoie, Helene Favreau, Nicola J. Paine, Catherine Lemiere, Maryann Joseph, Avril Gagnon-Chauvin, André Cartier, and Simon L. Bacon
Stability analyses of vertically exposed cemented backfill: A revisit to Mitchell's physical model tests, Guangsheng Liu, Li Li, Xiaocong Yang, and Lijie Guo
Holistic sustainable development: Floor-layers and micro-enterprises, Monique Lortie, Sylvie Nadeau, and Steve Vezeau
Trunk muscle reflexes are elicited by small continuous perturbations in healthy subjects and patients with low-back pain, Daniel Ludvig and Christian Larivière
Bacteria emitted in ambient air during bronchoscopy: A risk to health care workers?, Geneviève Marchand, Caroline Duchaine, Jacques Lavoie, Marc Veillette, and Yves Cloutier
On the threshold conditions for electron beam damage of asbestos amosite fibers in the transmission electron microscope (TEM), Joannie Martin, Martin Beauparlant, Sébastien Sauvé, and Gilles L'Espérance
Evaluation of eight methods for aligning orientation of two coordinate systems, Hakim Mecheri, Xavier Robert-Lachaine, Christian Larue, and André Plamondon
Catastrophizing and pain-related fear predict failure to maintain treatment gains following participation in a pain rehabilitation program, Emily Moore, Pascal Thibault, Heather Adams, and Michael J.L. Sullivan
Quantitative ultrasound imaging of Achilles tendon integrity in symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals: Reliability and minimal detectable change, Marie-Josée Nadeau, Amélie Desrochers, Martin Lamontagne, Christian Larivière, and Dany H. Gagnon
Gold nanoparticles induce apoptosis, endoplasmic reticulum stress events and cleavage of cytoskeletal proteins in human neutrophils, Claudie Noël, Jean-Christophe Simard, and Denis Girard
On the use of geometric and harmonic means with the generalized cross-correlation in the time domain to improve noise source maps, Thomas Padois, Olivier Doutres, Franck Sgard, and Alain Berry
Two related occupational cases of legionella longbeachae Infection, Quebec, Canada, Marianne Picard-Masson, Élisabeth Lajoie, Judith Lord, Cindy Lalancette, Geneviève Marchand, Éric Levac, Marc-André Lemieux, Patricia Hudson, and Louise Lajoie
Design of a safety control system to improve the verification step in machinery lockout procedures: A case study, Pascal Poisson, Yuvin Chinniah, and Sabrina Jocelyn
Biomechanical risk assessment during field loading of hydraulic stretchers into ambulances, Jérôme Prairie, André Plamondon, Sandrine Hegg-Deloye, Dominique Larouche, and Philippe Corbeil
Implementation and evaluation of an analytical method for a novel derivatizing agent to measure 4,4'-methylene diphenyl diisocyanate atmospheres, Silvia Puscasu, Simon Aubin, Mark Spence, and Sébastien Gagné