Occ Health

Question 1

Occ Health Issues: Special
Employee Circumstances

Pregnancy or contemplating pregnancy

Answer 1

• Rubella
• Toxoplasma
• Cytomegalovirus
• Chagas
• Parvovirus B-19
• Syphilis

Question 2

Occ Health Issues: Special
Employee Circumstances

Immunosuppression

Answer 2

• Immune-suppressive drugs, Lupus, steroid
therapy
• Employee infected with HIV, splenectomized

Question 3

Occ Health Issues: Special
Employee Circumstances

Conditions that may affect ability to work
in a laboratory

Answer 3

• Uncontrolled diabetes

* Medications that affect ability to use machinery

Question 4

Occupational Health – Risk

Considerations

Answer 4

Male vs. female workers
• Agent specific concerns with:

• Rubella-women joint pain or miscarriage
• Mumps- male pain testes
• TB- higher older male rate, pregnancy complications, female genital