Donald S Christian

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Workplace health and safety has been of paramount importance for any nation and the stakeholders- authorities, employers and workers – must have reasonable sensitization for the same. During the COVID 19 pandemic, lots of policy formulations and regulations had to incorporate within the industries for the health and welfare of the workers. The “new normal” will take some time for adjustments, challenges and implications to be implemented effectively and consistently. Certain processes in the workplace, especially in the mechanical engineering companies, are likely for high close contact incidences. Special situations pertaining to workers’’ health, like crowded accommodations, travel risks as well common canteens, all need to be reconsidered for providing safer environment to the workers, as far as the current pandemic is concerned. This requires coordinated efforts from all the stakeholders within the mechanical field through subconscious acceptance of the norms of safety and hygiene at all levels.   Keywords: Mechanical Engineering, Industries, Occupational Health, Pandemic, Workers' Safety.

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Introduction: Nurses work on the front lines of disease cure and the delivery of health care. Like any other student, nursing students face environmental changes, changes in peer groups, social, economic or academic stress. Nursing students’ beliefs and behaviours could affect the clinical services, which they will offer to their patients. To assess the level of the health-promoting lifestyle behaviours of nursing students andto determine association of health-promoting lifestyle behaviours with socio-demographic factors. Materials and Methods: Nursing student from selected tertiary care institute of Ahmedabad city, who give informed consent for participation will be included in the study. A predesigned Health Promotion Lifestyle Profile II (HPLP II) was used. The data analysis was done by using SPSS software version 21 using appropriate statistical tests. Results : Out of the total 182 nursing students enrolled in the study across of all three years, 163 (89.6%) possessed good health promoting behaviours. Only 39.56% (n=72) of the nursing students were of normal weight. Overall score for Promotion Lifestyle Profile II (HPLP II) had come out to be 135.14 (64.97%). Overall, variables such as BMI and Socio-economic class had significant statistical associations with specific sub-class of HPLP-II. Conclusion : Health promoting behaviours were good for most of the nursing students. However, sub-class like spiritual growth and interpersonal relations had better score compared to sub-classes such as physical activity and health responsibility. Keywords: Health­promoting Lifestyle Behaviours, Health responsibility, Nursing students, Physical activity

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