This report was produced within the framework of the RAAK PRP project ‘Veiligheid op de werkvloer’. Personal protective equipment (PPE) is used on a daily basis by millions of people all over the EU, voluntarily or as a result of EU legislation. In this report we deal specifically with the textile/garment …

Hospital staff frequently has to cope with complex information, unpredictable circumstances, and prompt decision making. In such an environment, even the “Gods in white” are susceptible to fatigue and error. Noncompliance with hand hygiene guidelines in hospitals is one of these errors and enhances the …

In the current era, characterized by dynamic societal, technological, and economic changes as well as an increasing diversity in the workforce, previous approaches to individual work behaviour are being challenged (Schalk et al. 2010). Demographic trends in the working population, for example, ageing …

Door menselijke (bouw)activiteiten wordt de kwetsbare natuur vaak bedreigd. Voor situaties waarin het onvermijdelijk is dat natuurwaarden worden aangetast, kent de Flora- en Faunawet een ontheffingsregime. Dit rapport gaat in op de uitvoering in de praktijk van de ontheffingseisen

Door zijn gevoelige lichaam is een paard in staat om de kleinste verandering in de hulpen van de ruiter op te merken, zelfs als de ruiter deze verandering zelf niet doorheeft. Toch is er vrijwel geen wetenschappelijk onderzoek gedaan naar het effect van fysieke symptomen van psychologische factoren van …

Deze studie is uitgevoerd om wetenschappelijke bewijzen te vinden over de fysieke symptomen van een ruiter tijdens vermoedelijke stressvolle situaties zoals een dressuurproef. Omdat de prestaties tijden een dressuur-wedstrijd afhankelijk zijn van de goede communicatie tussen ruiter en paard, en hoe het …

The aim of this study was to examine whether it is possible to utilize the fluctuations in human motor behaviour to induce a self-organizing process in the athlete, which takes advantage of individual movement and learning characteristics. This recently developed approach is known as differencial learning …

Motivation -- Cameras are increasingly dominating our life, but do these influence our behaviour as well? What are people's emotions and attitude towards camera surveillance? Research approach -- In an exploratory study (n=23) people's emotional reactions to (visible and hidden) cameras were observed. …

Employees with a chronic disease often encounter problems at work because of their chronic disease. The current paper describes the development of a self-management programme based on the Chronic Disease Self-Management programme (CDSMP) of Stanford University to help employees with a chronic somatic …

Sectoral levelling funds are an arrangement aimed at alleviating a well-known theoretical problem of underinvestment in worker training due to free-rider behaviour of firms. In The Netherlands, collective agreements require firms to participate in such funds in a number of sectors. Using a comprehensive …