Date of filling in this questionnaire or last update: 16/11/2020
1. JOB-EXPOSURE MATRICES
JEM name
JEM- hospital workers
Institute
Hacettepe Üniversity, Institute of Public Health, Dept. of Occupational Health and Safety
Country
Turkey
Contact person
Sibel Kiran
Email
sibelkiran@gmail.com
Year JEM was developed
2003
Agents
  • Biological Factors
  • Physical Agents
  • Ergonomics, Physical Workload, and Injury Related
  • Psychosocial Domains
  • Organisation of Work including Working Time
Bacteria
  • Helicobacter Pylori
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Viruses
  • Hepatitis (Hep B, Hep C, etc.)
  • Influenza (all types)
Choose
  • Cold
  • Hand-arm vibration
  • Heat
  • Light-at-night (LAN)
  • Noise
  • Radiation
  • Ultrasound
Radiation
  • Ionising
  • Non-ionising
  • Solar and ultraviolet
Ergonomics, Physical Workload, and Injury Related
  • Awkward work postures (e.g. kneeling/squatting, elevated arms, neck flection, back bent forward without support)
  • Physical work load (e.g. heavy lifting of people or objects, pushing/pulling)
  • Repetitive work movements
  • Sedentary work
  • Standing work
  • Work with video display units (VDU)
Hazards from other people
  • Bullying, harassment (including sexual harassment)
  • Violence
  • Other (specify)
Bullying, harassment (including sexual harassment)
  • By co-workers/colleagues
  • By patients/clients/customers
Violence
  • By co-workers/colleagues
  • By patients/clients/customers
Job task characteristics/organization of work
  • Career advancement opportunities
  • Job control, autonomy
  • Role conflict/ambiguity/clarity
  • Social support at work from supervisors
Work/non-work interface
  • Work-family (work-home) interface/conflict/balance
Employment conditions
  • Contract duration
  • Work contract type (i.e. permanent, term-contract, subcontract, temporary)
Shift work
  • Night (permanent or rotating)
  • Rotating (not night)
  • Regular/variable
Working hours
  • Duration
  • Regular/variable
Occupation Axis
Yes
Coding system
  • ISCO 1988
Coding system (Number of digits used)
4
Industry Axis
Yes
Industry coding system
  • ISIC rev 3 (1989)
Sex-specific
No
Age-specific
No
Intensity
Yes
Intensity categories/units
  • Semi-quantitative (specify categories and cut-off points, if applicable )
Semi-quantitative (specify categories and cut-off points, if applicable )
1 to 4
Probability
Yes
Probability categories/levels
1-3
Duration
Yes
Duration categories/levels
1-4
Frequency
Yes
Peaks
No
Data source(s)
  • Expert assessment
  • Self-reported data
Availability
  • Upon request
Strengths
for hospital sector, and one company originated expert and self reported data collected task and department based very focused health workers during that period jem was not popular so it could not be published
Weaknesses
not a specific model jem application, it was created in one hospital to build and apply for national data, but could not be possible sure to national coding system turned NACe afterwards