L27: Occupational Health Programs & Teams Flashcards
Background about safety and health of workers in Egypt
Occupational health program
Occupational health program
- Measures for worker
βΆ Pre-employment health examination.
β· Periodic health examination.
βΈ Return to work health examinations.
βΉ First aid services and emergency preparedness
βΊ Training & health education.
β» Data collection & record keeping
βΌ disability evaluation & rehabilitation
β½ Health promotion activities
Occupational health program
- Measures for working place
βΆ Surveillance of the working environment
β· Informing employer, enterprise management and
workers about occupational health hazards
Measures for workplace environment
- Surveillance of the working environment
(Surveillance of the working environment)
The quality of the working environment β¦β¦ has to be ensured by β¦.. at the workplace.
- in terms of compliance with safety and health standards
- surveillance
(Surveillance of the working environment)
According to ILO, β¦.. of the working environment is one of the main tasks of the β¦β¦ services.
- surveillance
- occupational health
(Surveillance of the working environment)
- Walk-through survey of the workplace is conducted, preferably by a β¦β¦
- This should include interviews with:
- multidisciplinary occupational health team supplemented by employersβ and workersβ representatives.
- βΆ Managers
β· Foremen
βΈ Workers
(Surveillance of the working environment)
When needed, special safety, hygiene, ergonomic or psychological checks can be performed.
..
(Surveillance of the working environment)
Special checklists and guidelines are available and are recommended for such surveys
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(Surveillance of the working environment)
The observations may indicate a need for specific measurements or checks which should be performed by specialists in
βΆ occupational hygiene
β· ergonomics
βΈ toxicology
βΉ safety engineering
βΊ psychology.
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Measures for workplace environment
- Informing about occupational health hazards
(Informing about occupational health hazards)
- Informing employer, enterprise management &
workers about occupational health hazards - This information is communicated to β¦β¦.
βΆ those responsible for implementing preventive
and control measures.
β· to the workers exposed to these hazards
Measures for workers
- Pre-assignment (pre-employment) health examinations
Pre-assignment (pre-employment) health examinations
- Record the state of health of the worker at the beginning of employment in Certain Situattions where β¦β¦
- The worker is exposed to hazards which
may affect certain body functions, base line levels of these functions should be evaluated during the preplacement
Pre-assignment (pre-employment) health examinations
Examples of Pre-assignment (pre-employment) health examinations
- Audiometry in the case of noise exposure
- Pulmonary functions in the case of exposure
to irritant dust. - Evaluation of choline-esterase level in blood in the
case of exposure to organo-phosphorus pesticides
Pre-assignment (pre-employment) health examinations
- Discover diseases unknown to the worker so that β¦β¦ can be given.
early treatment
Pre-assignment (pre-employment) health examinations
- Avoid employment of workers with infectious diseases until proper treatment is completed.
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Pre-assignment (pre-employment) health examinations
- In doing a preplacement examination the occupational health physician should be β¦..
familiar with the type of job of the prospective worker is going to perform and the type of hazard he will be exposed to.
Measures for workers
- Periodic health examinations
Periodic health examinations
- objective is to early detect occupational diseases at a stage when they can be β¦β¦
βΆ treated
β· their progress stopped or slowed down.
Periodic health examinations
- Examinations focus particularly on the organs or systems affected by the occupational exposure dust. e.g:
βΆ A chest X-ray is necessary exposure to fibrogenic.
β· An audiogram in exposure to noise.
βΈ Evaluation of lead in blood exposure to lead fumes or dust
Periodic health examinations
- These are performed at β¦β¦ during employment which involves exposure to potential hazards that β¦β¦
- periodic intervals
- could not be entirely eliminated by preventive and control measures.
Periodic health examinations
- Examples
βΆ silica exposed workers Every 2 years
β· radiation exposed workers Every 6 months
