Workplace Hazards To Pregnancy

摘要

Guidance on occupational hazards to pregnant women is the latest in the series of evidence-based guidelines from NHS Plus. It focuses on manual handling, heavy physical work, prolonged standing, long working hours and shiftwork (including nightwork) and will be supplemented by advisory leaflets for employers, employees and health professionals. The guidelines are based on a review of 37 papers meeting inclusion criteria; whittled down from an initial 270 abstracts.The reviewers identified just one high quality systematic review (which included a meta-analysis).