Objective
The purpose of the project is to improve scientific knowledge for risk assessment in professional cleaning and the work environment, in order to provide strategies for the prevention of occupational diseases in cleaning work. This includes research into the connection between risk factors and aetiology of diseases as well as the control of risks with respect to preventive strategies.
In order to attain a comprehensive risk assessment in cleaning work, all the significant risks at the work places and the environment need to be identified: cleaning methods and tools, chemicals, work organisation, working hours, indoor climate. For this reason a multidisciplinary approach must be adopted. The network of researchers from Denmark, Finland, Germany and Italy will focus on the lack of comparative data in occupational medicine and the ergonomics of cleaning work, and will pursue a research strategy to obtain this information.
During the first stage of the project the partners will collect and transfer knowledge by reviewing previous studies, literature and information from public registers. A critical review will be compiled by combining the information. This will make a more complete description of work environment and health in cleaning and the introduction of sufficient preventive strategies possible.
In the second stage, the scientific approach to improving the ergonomics of cleaning tools and methods will be disseminated to the network. With a comprehensive model the work content at this stage aims to identify the effects on health before and after interventions, e.g. new tools, methods, cleaning agents, quality of cleaning or work organisation. The model will be improved during testing in national studies.
The network will deliver recommendations and documentation of models and methods for risk assessment, and for identifying changes in health status, which will then be available to health service personnel and safety experts. Furthermore improvements of cleaning tools and methods from a ergonomic point of view will be suggested.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
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Coordinator
21033 HAMBURG
Germany
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