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Occupational Health and Safety
Workplace hazards, ergonomics, and safety science.
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- How does the number of fingers people use to turn a knob change as the knob's diameter increases?
- How has the International Ice Patrol tracked North Atlantic icebergs since its founding in response to the Titanic?
- How many practitioners did the study of sword-swallowing injuries survey?
- How was the Bangkok Metropolitan Police's anti-bribery bonus scheme supposed to change officer incentives?
- What connection did the researchers draw between impaired bat sonar and aviation safety research?
- What did Texas's 1989 anti-drug law actually require to legally purchase laboratory glassware?
- What effect did long-distance transport stress have on Salmonella excretion in pigs?
- What forces did the researchers measure when studying how sheep are moved across a shearing shed floor?
- What happened to Jim Gray in 2007, and how large was the search effort that followed?
- What kinds of failures were feared if two-digit year fields misread '00' as 1900?
- What kinds of injuries did Witcombe and Meyer's survey of sword swallowers document?
- What kinds of international labour standards did the ILO establish in its first fifty years?
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- What lasting protections did the International Labour Organization establish for workers?
- What made the Ig Nobel committee treat a technical standard as a literary text?
- What modern technologies, from airport scanners to art conservation, trace back to Barkla's characteristic X-rays?
- What practical fields rely on the quantitative theory of branched chain reactions today?
- What real-world clothing decisions does this thermoregulation research actually inform?
- What restrictions had the South African government already placed on Albert Lutuli by the time he won the Nobel Peace Prize?
- What safety measures did the 1914 International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea introduce after the disaster?
- What specific brewing parameters does BS 6008 stipulate for making a standard cup of tea?
- What typically caused the ceramic lavatories in the study to fail?
- Who ended up being caught by a law meant to target drug manufacturers, and why?
- Why did Russia need a solution for its surplus of decommissioned Soviet-era ordnance?
- Why did the Royal Navy instruct sailors to shout 'Bang!' instead of firing live ammunition?
- Why do laboratories need a standardised tea-brewing method when comparing different teas?
- Why does it remain unresolved whether the remediation effort was necessary or the threat was overstated?
- Why does the entry argue this kind of undignified hazard gets overlooked by safety literature?
- Why does this finding matter for designers of control panels, medicine bottles, and door handles?
- Why had road-safety research largely ignored driver cursing in favor of speed and alcohol?
- Why was this study funded as an occupational health investigation rather than as a joke?
- Why was vehicle theft such a severe problem in South Africa in the late 1990s?
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- Ig Nobel Prize in Aviation
- Ig Nobel Prize in Biology
- Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Ig Nobel Prize in Economics
- Ig Nobel Prize in Engineering
- Ig Nobel Prize in Literature
- Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine
- Ig Nobel Prize in Peace
- Ig Nobel Prize in Peace
- Ig Nobel Prize in Peace
- Ig Nobel Prize in Peace
- Ig Nobel Prize in Physics