1 1-1-O Factors Associated with Turnover Intention among Professional Women in Science and Technology: A Study of Work-Family Role Conflict. Anthonia Ginika Uzoigwe 1 , Wah Yun Low 2 , Siti Nurani Noor 1 1 Department of Science and Technology studies, faculty of Science, University of Malaya., 2 Research Management Centre, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya. Objectives: Antecedents of work-family related stressors, are usually examined in terms of tension, anxiety, fatigue, depression, irritability, and burnout, hence, creating negative efects on the physical and mental health of employees. This study examined factors associated with turnover intention among female professionals across three ields: engineering, Information Technology (IT) and medicine. Methods: Data was obtained from 173 professional women in 20 engineering and IT irms and one public and one private hospital in Lagos State Nigeria. Work-family role conlict was measured using 5 items on seven points Likert scale 1=strongly disagree to 7=strongly agree (Netemeyer, Boles and McMurrian 1996). Score ranged from 5 to 35, where the higher the score, the higher work-family role conlict experienced. Turnover intention was measured using 5 items on ive points Likert scale 1=strongly disagree to 5=strongly agree, (Karatepe and Sokmen 2006). score ranged from 5 to 25. The higher the score, the higher the intention to quit. Findings: The indings indicated that work-family role conlict is experienced across the three ields of Engineering (45%), IT (25%) and Medicine (30%). Family-responsibilities, job demand, work role overload and work-family role conlict were signiicantly and positively correlated with turnover intention (63%), all P<. 05. Multiple linear regression analysis showed that only work role overload and work-family role conlict signiicantly predicted 13.1% of turnover intention. 13.1% of changes in turnover intention is caused by changes in the combination of work-family conlict and work role overload. The two predictor variables combined contributed 13.1% (r = 0.362) changes of variants in the criterion variable. Conclusion: Working women in science and technology industry who are experiencing work-family role conlict are likely to quit their jobs. Employers and policy makers are suggested to pay attention to workplace issues that create strain for women in science and technology career. Keywords: Gender Role Conlict, Predictive Factors, Professional Women, Turnover Intention, Women in Science and Technology, Work-family role conlict. 1-2-O Occupational risk factors for low back pain among Indonesian coal mining workers Baiduri Widanarko 1 , Stephen Legg 2 , Mark Stevenson 3 1 University of Indonesia, Faculty of Public Health, Department of Occupational Health and Safety, Depok, Indonesia, 2 Massey University, College of Health, School of Public Health, Centre for Ergonomics, Occupational Safety and Health, Palmerston North, New Zealand, 3 The University of Melbourne Parkville, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, Victoria, Australia Objective: To identify occupational risk factors for low back pain (LBP). Methods: Using validated self-administered questionnaires, 1,294 Indonesian coal mining workers reported individual (age, gender, duration of work and smoking status), physical (working in sitting position, squatting, bent trunk, bent and twisted trunk, using vibrating hand tools, whole body vibration and lifting), psychosocial (efort, reward, over commitment, decision latitude, psychological demand, social support, job satisfaction and work stress), and organisational (employment status and shift work) work factors. The intensity of LBP was assessed as: ‘pain at the present time’; ‘the worst pain in the last 6 months’, and; ‘the average pain in the last 6 months’ using a Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) with left and right anchors: 0 (‘no pain’) and 10 (‘unbearable pain’), and a inal LBP score calculated as the average VAS response to the 3 questions, then multiplied by 100. These data were analysed by multivariate linear regression. Results: In comparison with workers free from exposure, the intensity of LBP was increased by 13.1 (95%CI 6.0-20.2), 6.3 (95% CI 2.1-10.5) and 6.6 (95% CI 1.5-11.7) VAS units respectively, for those who worked with a bent and twisted trunk, whole body vibration and for lifting. VAS was decreased by 0.9 (95% CI 0.3-1.4) and 0.1 (95% CI 0.0-0.2) VAS units for unit increases in reward and job satisfaction, respectively. Among those who reported work was very stressful, VAS was increased by 17.4 (95% CI 11.1-23.6) VAS units compared with those who reported not stressful. For night shift workers VAS was also increased by 5.9 (95% CI 1.7-10.1) VAS units compared to non-shift workers. Conclusions: Interventions to reduce LBP should be targeted at reducing exposure to work in bent and twisted trunk positions, whole body vibration, lifting, work stress, night shift work and improving reward and job satisfaction.