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This is concerned with all aspects of natural health and built environments that affect an individual and population health.

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Environmental Health

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These are the notable impacts of Environmental Health.

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Sanitation, safety, prevention, and control.

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This is the reason why there is an increased demand of environmental health professionals.

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Global Warming/Climate Change

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These are the effects of indoor and outdoor pollution.

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Cardiovascular disease and respiratory disease.

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These are the effects of food outbreaks and can be deadly.

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E-coli, salmonella, and listeria.

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These are factors that must be controlled to avoid the spread of diseases.

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Drinking unsafe water, cancerous chemicals, and toxins.

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This is defined as any source of potential damage, harm, or adverse health effects on something or someone under certain working conditions.

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Hazard

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These are hazards like spills, tripping, height, or machinery, most commonly found in workplaces.

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Safety Hazard

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These examples of safety hazards.

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Injuries, illness, and deaths.

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These are hazards that are acquired from disease causing organisms and toxins.

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Biological Hazards

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These are kinds of biological hazards.

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Microbes, parasites, viruses, insects, dogs, snakes, etc.

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These are hazards that serve as factors within an environment that can harm the body without necessarily touching it.

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Physical Hazard

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These are examples of physical hazards.

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Radiation (ionizing or non-ionizing) and High exposure to UV rays.

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These hazards relate to body positions, working conditions, and interaction between worker and environment.

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Ergonomic Hazards

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These are the triggers to ergonomic hazards.

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Repetitive motions, improper equipment design, awkward position, and speedy exertions.

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These are hazards that expose workers to chemicals (solid, liquid, gas).

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Chemical Hazard

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This is the number of chemicals used in Philippines industries.

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28,000

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These are the ways chemicals can be used.

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As raw materials, intermediate, finished, or waste products.

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These are any solid particles or liquid droplets that are dispensed in the air.

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Particulate Matter

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These are fluids with neither shape nor specific volume.

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Gaseous or Aero Form

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These are the gas forms of substances that are usually liquid or solids that are volatile.

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Vapors

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These hazards are the stresses that affect workers mental health.

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Working Organizational Hazards

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These are the long-term effects of WO hazards.

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Workload, workplace violence, and psychosocial hazards.

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These are examples of WO hazards.

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Boredom, underuse of skill, shifting work, bullying, harassment, poor communication, and poor relationship with superiors.

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This is a branch of medicine concerned with the elevation of the potential hazard risk and prevention, treatment, and palliation of working conditions.
Occupational Health
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This key element includes the health risk management at work.
Health Protection
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This key element is the health risk assessment associated with environment and lifestyle.
Health Promotion
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This key element is concerned with the collection of data for evaluation and effectiveness checks on control measures.
Health Surveillance
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This is the environmental factors, agents, or situations that may create harm or injury to one's physical well-being.
Health Hazards
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These are the kinds of workplace safety hazards.
Vehicles, violence, pressure systems, fire, ejection materials.
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This is a system used to minimize exposure to hazards and is widely accepted by safety organizations.
Hierarchy of Controls to Hazards
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These are the Hierarchy of Controls from most effective to least effective.
Elimination, substitution, engineering controls, administrative controls, and PPE.
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This control means to physically move hazards.
Elimination
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This control means to replace hazards.
Substitution
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This control means isolating people from hazards.
Engineering Control
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This control means changing how people work.
Administrative Control
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This control protects workers with protective equipment.
PPE
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This represents the condition wherein workers may be repeatedly exposed to conditions per week without adverse health effects.
Threshold Limit Value
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This is the Philippine Occupational Safety and Health Standard.
Threshold Limit Value.
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This is the duration a worker may be exposed to every day and every week.
8 hours a day and 48 hours a week.
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This refers tothe amount of a chemical that can be repetitively exposed to a person.
Time Weighted Average (TWA)
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This is the minimum amount TWA is based on.
40-hour workweek
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This refers to the amount of chemical that is allowable for a short duration.
Short Term Exposure Limits (STEL)
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This is an example of STEL.
15 minutes without tissue damage or irritation.
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This refers to the amount of chemical that should not exceed at anytime with no exemptions.
Ceiling
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These are measured in decibels (dB) and frequency (Hertz).
Noise
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This is referred to as the sensorineural deficit resulting from chronic exposure to sound level that is not permissible in a certain day/hr.
Noise
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This is the main source of noise.
Industrial and Manufacturing Industries
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This is the permissible level of noise.
90dB/8hr shift
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These are possible ways to control noise.
Hearing conservation program, PPE, annual hearing test, control noise via barriers.
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This is the hearing threshold.
0 dB
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This is the audible range for hearing.
20-20,000 Hz
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This is the hearing threshold for pain.
120 dB
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This is the frequency of speech.
500-2000 Hz
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This is the permissible noise level for an 8 hour shift.
85-90 dB
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This is the permissible noise level for an 4 hour shift.
90-95 dB
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This is the permissible noise level for an 2 hour shift.
95-100 dB
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This is the permissible noise level for an 1 hour shift.
100-105 dB
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This is the permissible noise level for a 30 minute shift.
105-110 dB
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This is the permissible noise level for a 15 min shift.
110-115 dB
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This is the permissible noise level for a 7.5 min shift.
115 dB
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This systemic disorder is the failure of the thermoregulatory center and suppression of sweat.
Heat Stroke
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This systemic disorder is characterized by exposure to 40 to 43 C temperature, disorientation, delirium, and coma.
Heat Stroke
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This systemic disorder is the deficiency of water/salt that leads to circulatory problems or efficiency.
Heat Exhaustion
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This systemic disorder is characterized by fatigue, moist skin, hyperthermia, low pulse, and low blood pressure.
Heat Exhaustion
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This systemic disorder is the excessive sweat loss, high water intake without adequate salt replacement.
Heat Cramps
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This systemic disorder is characterized by painful muscle spasms, are common in athletes, and typically happen in the arms, legs, and abdomen.
Heat Cramps
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This systemic disorder is characterized by fainting,
Heat Syncope
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These are the top 5 common work-related Illnesses.
1. Respiratory Disease 2. Musculoskeletal Disease 3. Cancer 4. Injuries (Workplace) 5. Cardiovascular Disease
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These are types of respiratory diseases.
Asthma, COPD, and PTB.
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These are types of cancers.
Breast, prostate, and lung cancer.
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These are types of cardiovascular diseases.
Hypertension and myocardial infarction.
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These are the other most common work-related illnesses.
6. Reproductive Disorder 7. Neurotoxic Disorder 8. Noise-induced Hearing Loss 9. Dermatological Disorder 10. Mental Disorder

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