[Health criteria and scope of workers' periodic health check-ups for selected types of work and exposure factors - Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine guidelines].

Workers' medical prophylactic examinations referred to in the Labor Code are one of the tasks of the occupational medicine services. They are regulated by law which has been in force for more than 20 years in unchanged form. During this period, new harmful, burdensome or dangerous to health factors appeared in the workplaces, for which no preventive health check-up standard was defined.

Analysis of bus drivers reaction to simulated traffic collision situations - eye-tracking studies.

Objectives: The aim of the study was to establish whether the driver's visual strategy may influence a driver's behavior to avoid a crash in a high-risk situation. Any published papers on drivers' visual strategies just before a crash were not found.

Material And Methods: Tests were performed using a high-tech driving bus simulator.

Sensitization to xylanolytic enzymes: an underestimated health hazard among bakers.

Background: The most important occupational allergens in baking include flour and enzymes, especially α-amylase. Although xylanolytic enzymes have previously been described as sensitizers, they may be overlooked during assessment of bakery workers with work-related symptoms.

Aims: To report a case of a baker who suffered from work-related respiratory, ocular and skin symptoms as a consequence of sensitization to xylanolytic enzymes.

[The importance of sight for drivers].

Sight is the basic sense for drivers. Condition of the eye determines correct, comfortable and safe performance of the work as drivers. This article presents various factors influencing the sight condition.

Occupational allergy to squid (Loligo vulgaris).

Occupational allergy from exposure to squid has been rarely described, mainly as contact dermatitis or urticaria. Our report presents the first case of occupational asthma, rhinitis, conjunctivitis and contact urticaria to squid in a 33-year-old seafood production worker, with documented increased eosinophilia in the nasal and tear fluids after specific inhalation challenge test (SICT) with squid. IgE-mediated sensitization to squid was confirmed by positive skin prick test and opened skin test with squid extract.

Contact blepharoconjunctivitis due to black henna--a case report.

Para-phenylenediamine (PPD) can induce immediate or - more often - delayed hypersensitivity. We report the case of 48-year old female admitted to the out-patient allergy clinic a day after her visit in a beauty parlour, where she had her eyelashes and eyebrows dyed with henna. Physical examination revealed prominent edema of the upper part of the face including forehead, cheeks and eyes causing severe narrowing of the palpebral chink.

[Effect of visual work on the tear film and degree of the eye strain].

Background: The aim of this study was to assess the impact of the visual work on the tear film and the degree of eye strain.

Materials And Methods: The survey was conducted among 50 people working 4 h with different types of monitors (CRT, LCD) and without a monitor. Schirmer's test and evaluation of the degree of eye strain were performed in all subjects before and after work.

[Assessment of the impact of the visual work with display monitors on the eye temperature and intraocular pressure].

Background: The aim of this study was to assess the impact of the visual work with display monitors on the eye surface temperature, intraocular pressure and on the eye moisturizing condition.

Materials And Methods: The study was conducted among 50 people working with display monitors (CRT, LCD) and without monitor. The temperature of the eye surface via thermo camera and intraocular pressure were measured, as well as Schirmer's test was performed before and after 4 h of visual work.

Challenge testing in the diagnosis of occupational allergic conjunctivitis.

Background: Providing evidence for the allergic aetiology of ocular symptoms developing as a result of occupational exposure is important for compensation procedures in many countries.

Aim: To perform cellular analysis of tear fluid before and after a specific challenge test with high-molecular weight allergens in symptomatic subjects.

Methods: The subjects were 23 bakers with a history of conjunctivitis or rhinoconjunctivitis associated with occupational exposure to wheat flour and positive skin prick test with this allergen.