1.1 overview occupational health

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OVERVIEW OFOCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

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Public Health DepartmentFaculty of Medicine - UNISBA


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NUMBER OF CREDIT : 2 SCU

ALLOCATED TIME : 7 sessions x 2 x 50 minutesSEMESTER : VIII

COURSE DECRIPTION :

The subject covers basic concept of occupational health. Thiscourse will cover learning subjects Occupational Health e.g.Introduction to Occupational Health, Workplace Hazard andOccupational Diseases.

COURSE: Occupational Health


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GENERAL LEARNING OBJECTIVES

This course in occupational health is designed to develop anawareness and understanding of concept in occupational healtharea.

After completing this course the students will able to: Identify some problems in occupational health area understand some diseases related to the occupational

environment underline occupational health problems in the future recognize some prevention methods in occupational health

problems understand some risk factors related to the occupational

health problems practice evaluation in occupational health area


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METHOD : mini lecture and studentgroup presentation

MEDIA : multimediaFORMAT OF THE COURSE

The course of Occupational Health is

presented in 7 sessions.There are required readings for eachsession and it might be useful to readit before beginning the course.


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Required and Recommended readings1. Sumamur, Higene Perusahaan dan Kesehatan Kerja, CV Haji

Masagung, Jakarta, 19942. Levy & Wegman, Occupational Health, Recognizing and

Preventing Work Related Disease. Third Edition. Little Broan

and Company, Boston / NewYork/Toronto/London,20063. Joseph LaDou, Occupational & Environmental Medicine, Third

Edition, Lange, USA,20044. Rosenstock, Textbook of Clinical Occupational and

Environmental Medicine, Second Edition, Saunders, 2005,5. Depkes RI: Pedoman Pengendalian Nosokomial di Rumah

Sakit,20016. Bennet,Brachman ed., Hospital Infections,Little Brown,19927. WHO, Practical guidelines for infection control in health care

facilities, 2003


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8. Danggur Kondarus, Keselamatan Kesehatan Kerja, LitbangDanggur & Partners, 2006,

9. Prss A, Giroult E, Rushbrook P, eds. Safe Management ofWastes from Health-care Activities. Geneva: World Health

Organization, 1999.10. WHO,Pruss,Giroult,Rushbrook, ed., Safe Management of

wastes from health-car activities, Geneva, 1999,11. Health care waste and its safe management :

http://www.healthcarewaste12. Harrington, Occupational Heath , Pocket Consultant, Blackwell

Scientific Publications,198713. Related website
http://www.healthcarewaste/http://www.healthcarewaste/http://www.healthcarewaste/


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SUBJECT OUTLINE

The major goals are: learning and understanding theoccupational health concepts

This course is designed to introduce the scientific basisof occupational health, especially the relevantprinciples and concepts of workplace hazards,toxicology and ergonomics.

The nature of common occupational healthhazards and their effect upon the human bodyare examined. Examples of common protectivemeasures and controls are also reviewed.


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The course will involve a 7 sessions of teaching

Session Topic

1 Overview of Occupational Health

Workplace Hazards

2 Physical and Chemical Hazards at the Workplace

3 Biological and Psychosocial Hazards at the Workplace

4 Ergonomics & Accident

5 Hospital waste and Health care facilities based infections

6 Occupational Health, Occupational diseases and occupationalrelated diseases

7 Regulation and Control in occupational health and safety.

Applying Occupational health and safety in several occupationalenvironment and as ect


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Topic 1.1

Overview of Occupational health Occupational Health,

Occupational Medicine,

Occupational Hygiene


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SPECIFIC LEARNING OBJECTIVES

The student will be able :

to understand and describeOccupational health problems (C2)


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References Levy & Wegman, Occupational Health,

Recognizing and Preventing Work Related

Disease. Third Edition. Little Broan andCompany, Boston /NewYork/Toronto/London,2006. Chapter :1

Rosenstock, Textbook of Clinical Occupational

and Environmental Medicine, Second Edition,Saunders, 2005. Chapter : 1,2, 11


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Workers of today go to theirjobs confident that they will

return safely, and in goodhealth.


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While hazards may beencountered on the job, for the

most part these risks havebeen controlled.


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Introduction WHO : Workplace fatalities, injuries and illnesses remain at

unacceptably high levels and involve an enormousand unnecessary health burden, suffering, andeconomic loss amounting to 45% of GDP.

According to the latest ILO estimates for the year2000 there are 2.0 million work-related deaths peryear.

WHO estimates that there are only 10-15% of

workers who have access to a basic standard ofoccupational health services.

A recent study in the United States estimated thatthere are 60,300 job-related deaths caused bydisease.


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The legal responsibility for identifying andcorrecting health and safety hazards rests onthe shoulders of

the workplace parties(employers,contractors, owners,workers,

supervisors,self-employers persons,owners and suppliers).


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Physicians who are employed bymanagement, worker and community

right to know about occupational andenvironmental hazards


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DEFINI TIONOccupational Medicine :

-a branch of medicine concerned

with the prevention and treatmentof occupational diseases

- is primarily a branch of preventivemedicine, with some therapeuticfunctions


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The Occupational Health andSafety Act, 1993, and Regulations

require everyone in the

workplace to work together to

identify and control health and

safety hazards.


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Occupational health Is the multidisciplinary approach to the

recognition, diagnosis, treatment, and

prevention and control of disease,injuries, and adverse health conditionresulting from hazardous environmental

exposures in the workplace


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Occupational Healthis a specialization in Health Science with its

practice with the aim for workers to achieve thehighest degree of health, physically, mentally

and socially with preventive and curativemeasure against diseases or illnesses caused bywork factors or work environment, or common

diseases.


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Occupational Health ILO & WHO define :

As the promotion and maintenance of

the highest degree of physical, mentaland social well being of workers in alloccupations


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Occupational health Is a multidisciplinary activity aimed at :

the protection and promotion of the of

workers by preventing and controllingoccupational diseases and accidentsand by eliminating occupational factors

and conditions hazardous to health andsafety at work


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Occupational health is the total healthof all at work

Occupational health services is seen asa mechanism to achieve its objective

OH is the recognition of a two way

relationship between work and health


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Work may not only have an adverse impacton health, but it may beneficial to health andwell being

The health status of the worker will have animpact on work

Healthy >< un healthy more productive

Worker with impaired health lessproductive, danger to themselves, otherworkers and the community

WORK HEALTH


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Occupational Health

1. Concern with People

2. Concern with Medical

Problems


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Occupational Hygiene is the environmental science of

anticipating, recognizing,

evaluating, and controlling healthhazards in the workingenvironment with the objective of

protecting workers health and wellbeing and safeguarding thecommunity at large.


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Occupational Hygiene Definition from The British Occupational Hygiene

Society :

Occupational hygiene is the applied scienceconcerned with identification, measurement,

appraisal of risk and control to acceptable

standards of physical, chemical and biological

factors arising in or from the workplace whichmay affect the health or well-being of those at

work or in the community


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Industrial Hygiene Is the science and art devoted to the

recognition, evaluation and control of

those environmental factors or stresses,arising in or from workplace, which maycause sickness, impaired health andwell being, or significant discomfort and

efficiency among workers or among thecitizens of community.


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Occupational Health and Safety

ProgramAn occupational health and safety program is

a specific plan of action to prevent

workplace accidents, injuries andoccupational diseases.


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Occupational health and safety programThe program is a framework for all

occupational health and safety activities,

plans and procedures at the place ofemployment.


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Work ProductivityFactors related to work productivity:1. Common Diseases

2. Work Related diseases

3. Nutritional conditions

4. Work Environment

5. Planning and designing the relationshipsbetween people and machines

6. Mental or psychological condition

7. Workers welfare

8. Health Promotion

9. Health Facility

10. Supervision


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Worker

Work environment

Environmental Hazard


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The responsibilities of doctor

working in industry :1. knowledge of the work environment

2. pre-placement, periodic and special medical examinations

3. administrative responsibility for nurses and first-aiders

4. treatment5. health education

6. rehabilitation

7. teaching and research

8. advice to individuals, management, organized labor and

safety representatives9. efficient record keeping

10. group surveillance of those at special risk, e.g canteen staff

11. liase with outside organizations-Government, Universities,other industries

12. reassurance


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Additional Challenges in

Developing Countries1. Export Hazards

2. Inadequate infrastucture and human

resources3. Transnational problems

4. Relationship between the workplace and thehome environment

5. Economic development6. Occupational and Environmental Health

Services and Primary Health Care


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Disciplines and careers in occupational

and environmental health Physicians (preventive medicine, public health,

occupational and environmental medicine, aerospacemedicine

Nurse (occupational health nursing) Public health practitioners (epidemiology,

biostatistics, environmental health, health servicesadministration, health education, behavioral sciences,sanitarians, environmental technicians, food safetyprofessionals, hazardous substance professionals

Industrial hygienist, ergonomists, environmentalengineer


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Related disciplines Toxicology

Epidemiology

Environmental chemistry

System engineering

Sociology

Psychology

Anthropology

Communication science

Environmental law, economics, policy, management

Ecology,agronomy, chemistry, physics an geology

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