Healthy and Safe Environments across Occupational and Environmental Contexts

Dear Colleagues,

We are organizing a Special Issue on “Healthy and Safe Environments across Occupational and Environmental Contexts”.

The WHO defines environmental health as the science that “addresses all the physical, chemical, and biological factors external to a person, and all the related factors impacting behaviours. It encompasses the assessment and control of those environmental factors that can potentially affect health. It is targeted towards preventing disease and creating health-supportive environments”. The main link between the general environment and the workplace is that the source of the hazard is, in some cases, the same. To control the health hazard, a common approach may work effectively in both settings. It is now well recognized that the scientific knowledge and training required to assess and control environmental health hazards are, for the most part, the same skills and knowledge required to address occupational health hazards.

The Issue will feature a diverse range of topics, including novel approaches to hazard assessment, emerging environmental and occupational health risks, technological innovations for safety and health, interventions in challenging environments, and strategies for disease prevention and human well-being among occupational and environmental settings and communities.

The articles should cover one of the following topics:

• Occupational and environmental mixed exposures;
• Modelling approaches to estimate occupational and environmental exposures;
• New technologies, human factors, and health outcomes;
• Healthy indoor and outdoor workplaces and environments;
• Physical, biological, chemical, and psychosocial factors exposure and qualitative and quantitative risk assessment methods;
• Work organization and design to prevent accidents and injuries;
• Skin and airborne exposure: new developments on assessment and control;
• Impact of green jobs on environment and occupational health;
• Other related themes.

Dr. Carlos Carvalhais
Prof. Dr. Joana Santos
Dr. Cristiana Pereira
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Environments is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• occupational health
• environmental health
• human factors
• human exposure
• healthy environments