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Occupational Health part 1
The document provides an overview of occupational health, defining its goal as promoting worker well-being, preventing health issues due to work conditions, and ensuring a safe occupational environment. It discusses the importance of ergonomics, various types of occupational hazards including physical, chemical, biological, mechanical, and psychosocial risks, and highlights specific occupational diseases such as pneumoconiosis and silicosis. The document emphasizes the need for preventive measures and monitoring to protect workers from these hazards.
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Editor's Notes
- #13 Radiant heat is a mechanism for heat transfer which does not require a medium in which it propagates eg. Gas stove heats the kitchen also. Sun heats the house/environment. Local “hot spots” are present in radiant heat like oven/furnace. ??stagnant heat…various processes like dying of fabric etc use heat.. May b the persistent heat is stagnant heat???cudnt find info
- #14 Coal mine like in KGF movie, glass works
- #18 Miner’s nystagmus-Due to chronic strain of eye muscles- Rotatory oscillation of eyeball. unable to focus. Treatment is by removing d cause
- #26 5 micron or smaller particles of dust-cause pneumoconiosis- silicosis and anthracosis most common
- #27 10% of industry accidents- mechanical. The capacity to adapt to different working environments is influenced by many factors such as education, cultural background, family life, social habits, and what the worker expects from employment.
- #36 Bihar mica mines-34% silicosis, ceramic/pottery- 15% silicosis
- #42 Wet cutting of concrete
- #48 8 -30% of cotton factory workers have byssinosis
- #54 Gaskets- a mechanical seal which fills the space between two surfaces, generally to prevent leakage from or into the joined objects while under compression.
- #55 Asbestosis---Even upto 1km of the asbestos factory
- #57 Ground glass is glass whose surface has been ground to produce a flat but rough (matte) finish, in which the glass is in small sharp fragments