Knowra Occupational health Occupational health Occupational health protects and promotes workers’ physical and mental health by preventing work-related illness and injury and improving working conditions.
Hierarchy of controls : A framework that ranks hazard controls from elimination and substitution to engineering, administrative measures, and personal protective equipment. It prioritizes workplace changes that prevent exposure over measures relying on worker behavior.
Occupational ergonomics : The design of work, equipment, and workplaces to fit human abilities and reduce strain. Ergonomic changes can prevent musculoskeletal injuries and make tasks safer.
Bernardino Ramazzini : An Italian physician whose 1700 book described diseases associated with many occupations. His systematic accounts helped establish the study of diseases linked to work.
Occupational safety : The prevention of workplace injuries and acute harm through hazard control and safe work practices. Safety focuses strongly on injury prevention, while occupational health also addresses disease and well-being.
Occupational exposure assessment : The measurement and evaluation of workers’ contact with hazardous agents during work. Exposure measurements show whether workplace hazards reach harmful levels.
Occupational lung disease : Respiratory illness caused or worsened by exposure to hazards encountered at work. Dusts, fumes, and fibers can cause serious disease long after exposure begins.
Factory Acts : British laws that regulated working conditions in factories, beginning in the nineteenth century. Factory legislation made protection from workplace hazards a matter of public law.
Public health : The organized effort to protect and improve the health of populations. Occupational health applies population-health methods to workers and workplace conditions.
Industrial hygiene : The discipline of anticipating, recognizing, evaluating, and controlling workplace environmental hazards. It provides practical methods for detecting and reducing chemical, physical, and biological exposures.
Occupational cancer : Cancer caused or contributed to by exposure to carcinogens in the workplace. Preventing exposure to workplace carcinogens is a central long-term health goal.
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