Safety And Health In The Work Place

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Bernardino Ramazinni

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The father of occupational medicine

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The factories act, 1948

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Safety and health legislation

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Occupational medicine

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medical specialty that concerns itself with all aspects of health in relation to occupation

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Health

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connote a sound state of the body and mind of the worker which enables him to perform his job normally, in a state of well-being.

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Occupational illness

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any illness caused by environmental factors, the exposure to which is characterized or peculiar to a particular process, trade or occupation and to which an employee or worker is not ordinarily subjected to or exposed outside of or away from such employment

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1. Worker

2. Tool

3. Task or job

4. Working environment

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Elements of occupational health

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Worker

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genetic composition, physical constitution, psychological characteristic, disease susceptibility

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Tool

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biomechanical designs and specifications

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Task or Job

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application, software design, training, job satisfaction, rest breaks, shift work, support systems, management system

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Working environment

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physical condition, biomechanical, furniture/equipment

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Equipment, Environment, and process

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Workplace elements

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Equipment

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materials, tools and apparatus for producing product or service

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Process

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worker interaction with other elements in a series of tasks (operations)

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Environment

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Noise, vibration, lighting, temperature, ventilation

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WHO 1985

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“occupational health is not limited in scope to only preventing and controlling specific occupational diseases; workers’ health programmes should deal with the full relationship between work and total health of man”

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Industrial hygiene, industrial physician, safety engineer

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OH program

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Emergency medicine, industrial hygiene, toxicology, epidemiology

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OH practice specialty

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Industrial hygiene

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“...the science and art devoted to the anticipation, recognition, evaluation and control of those environmental factors and stresses, arising in or from the workplace, which may cause sickness, impaired health and well-being or significant discomfort and inefficiency among workers or among the citizens of the community.” (American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists)

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A. Physical

B. Chemical

C. Biological

D. Mechanical

E. Psychological

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TYPES OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH HAZARDS

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Temperature, illumination, noise, vibration, radiation, atmospheric pressure

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Physical hazard

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Heat

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Heat hyperpyrexia, Heat Exhaustion, Heat Syncope, Heat Cramps, burns, Prickly heat

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Cold

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Frost bite

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Light

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Occupational Cataract

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Atmospheric pressure

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Caisson disease, air embolism, explosion

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Noise

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Occupational deafness,

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Radiation

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Cancer, Leukemia, Aplastic anemia, Pancytopenia

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Electricity

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Burns, Shocks

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PNEUMOCONIOSIS

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Dust

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Coal dust, silica, asbestos

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Inorganic dust

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Cane fiber, cotton dust, tobacco, grain dust

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Organic dust

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Anthracosis

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Coal dust

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Silicosis

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Silica

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Asbestosis

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Asbestos

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Bagassosis (Bronchi gets affected)

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Cane fiber

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Byssinosis (In Textile industries)

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Cotton dust

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Tobaccosis, Lung Cancer

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Tobacco

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Farmer’s Lungs

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Grain dust

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Metals, aromatic hydrocarbons, aliphatic hydrocarbon, gases

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Chemical hazard

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Bacteria, virus, protozoal and parasitic, fungi-(agri-workers)

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Biological hazard

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The threshold limit value - time weighted average (TLV - TWA)

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``Time-weighted average concentration for a normal 8-hour working day and a 40-hour working week, to which nearly all workers may be repeatedly exposed day after day, without adverse effect``

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The Threshold Limit Value - Short Term Exposure Limit (TLV-STEL)

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is defined as a 15-minute, time-weighted average which should not be exceeded at any time during a working day, even if the 8-hour time-weightedaverage is within the TLV``

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Occupational medicine

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“The promotion and maintenance of the highest degree of physical, mental and social well-being of workers in all occupations – total health of all at work”

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Occupational hazard

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“Source or situation with a potential for harm in terms of injury or ill health, damage to property, damage to the workplace environment, or a combination of these.”