3. Promotion & Maintenance of the highest degree of
physical, mental & social wellbeing of workers in all
occupations (WHO & ILO, 1950 & revised in 1995).
4. A branch of preventive medicine with some
therapeutic function (Royal College of Physicians,
1978).
It begins as Industrial Medicine then it develops to
Occupational Medicine then to Occupational and
Environmental Medicine.
5. 1- Health promotion for workers & proper
prevention & ttt.
2- Work environment & its adverse effects on
workers’ health
3- Health problems of workers at any
workplace
6. More than 2,000,000 people die from work-
related accidents or disease every year,
equivalent to 1 death every 15 seconds.
Progress in bringing occupational health to
the industrializing countries is painfully slow.
In the poorest countries, there has been no
progress at all.
7. What are the differences between
occupational medicine & clinical
medicine?
8.
9. It is a disease arising out of or during the course of
employment and its cause present in the
occupation (e.g. silicosis).
Why its diagnosis is very critical?
1) Worker has the right to receive medical care at the
expense of the employer.
2) Worker has the right for paid sick leave.
3) If disability occurs, the worker has the right for
compensation.
10. Some diseases are not specially caused by
exposures on job, but they are
aggravated by occupational stressors.
so it can be found in the general
population (e.g. hypertension).
Work-related disease
11.
12. Essentially preventive functions
Responsible for advising employers &
workers in the undertaking of the
requirements for establishing & maintaining
a safe & healthy working environment,
which will facilitate optimal physical,
mental & social health in relation to work
Adjustment of the worker to work & work
to the worker.
13. ILO estimates that only 5-10% of workers in
developing countries & 20-50% of those in
industrialized countries have access to adequate
OHSs.
Levels of OHS coverage have not changed
significantly over the last 10 years.
35. Work schedule “reduce time & no. of exposure”
Supervision
Hazard communication “Right to Know” (Material
Safety Data Sheet “MSDS”)
Propaganda for safety (posters)
36.
37.
38.
39.
40. Health promotion: Workplace Wellness Education
WWE “Nutrition + Exercise + Substance abuse +
Smoking + Infectious diseases + Stress”
Health education: early symptoms & signs of ODs.
Medical examinations.
Early ttt of diagnosed ODs.
1st aid ttt of any occupational injuries.
Keeping full medical records.
41.
42. - Put the suitable worker in the suitable process.
- Base-line data about workers' health status
- Detection of any deviation on subsequent periodic
medical exam.
43. Occupational disease can be identified in its early stage to
prevent progression of the abnormal physiologic condition
It includes:
a- Occupational history.
b- Clinical examination.
c- Laboratory investigations
d- Biologic monitoring: early detection of any disturbed
physiologic function
44.
45.
46. Law specifies the periodicity of the exam. for workers in
each work or job.
It is either every 6 Ms or every 2 Ys depending on duration
of exposure needed to develop the occupational disease.
Workers may be temporally or permanently removed from
further exposure or may be advised to continue work.
48 occupational diseases in the Egyptian law.
50. Minimize or prevent the disability.
Retraining the disabled worker for a new job suitable for
his new physical & mental capacities.
Compensation of disabled workers after evaluation of the
disability resulted from occupational disease (48 in
Egyptian Law) or accident & giving him some privileges.