Role of environmental and occupational hazards in ill-health

Question 1

What are the major physical occupational hazards? (9)

Answer 1

Noise & vibration
Radiation
Manual handling
Repetitive work
Stressful work
Extremes of temperature
High humidity
Machinery
Poor lighting

Question 2

What are the major chemical occupational hazards? (4)

Answer 2

Dusts
Fumes
Vapours
Corrosive

Question 3

What are the major biological occupational hazards? (3)

Answer 3

Exposure to bacteria, fungi, parasites
Work with livestock or animal products
Work in hospitals or medical laboratories

Question 4

What three major blood borne viruses are biological occupational hazards?

Answer 4

HIV
Hep B
Hep C

Question 5

What three major hospital acquired infections are biological occupational hazards?

Answer 5

Pseudomonas
Streptococcus
MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus)

Question 6

What are the major psychosocial occupational hazards? (3)

Answer 6

Stress
Burnout
Occupational stress leading to burnout

Question 7

Is the incidence of stress, depression or anxiety caused or made worse by work increasing or decreasing?

Answer 7

Decreasing slightly, but the estimated number and rate have remained broadly flat for more than a decade.

Question 8

What was the prevalence of stress, depression or anxiety caused or made worse by work in 2015/16?

Answer 8

About 1510 per 100,000

Question 9

What did the Labour Force Survey find with regards to the total number of cases of work related stress, depression or anxiety in 2015/16?

Answer 9

488,000 cases

Question 10

What was the number of new cases of work related stress, depression or anxiety in 2015/16?

Answer 10

224,000 (690 per 100,000)

Question 11

What was the total number of working days lost due to this work-related stress, depression or anxiety in 2015/16?

Answer 11

11.7 million days

Question 12

In 2015/16 stress accounted for __% of all work related ill health cases and __% of all working days lost due to ill health.

Answer 12

37%

45%

Question 13

In what industries is stress more prevalent?

Answer 13

Public service industries, such as education, health and social care, and public administration and defence.

Question 14

What were the main work factors cited by respondents as causing work related stress, depression or anxiety? (4)

Answer 14

Workload pressures
Tight deadlines
Too much responsibility
Lack of managerial support

Question 15

What do healthcare professionals consider their main work-related pressures to be? (5)

Answer 15

Targets (including financial targets)
Heavy workloads
Lack of staffing resources
Bureaucracy
Emotional nature of their work

Question 16

How do medical students experience at a higher rate than the general population?

Answer 16

Depression, burnout, and mental illness

Question 17

Are mental health problems more common in male or female students?

Answer 17

Female

Question 18

What other group suffers more mental health problems?

Answer 18

LGBT

Question 19

What are the two most common mental health problems among students?

Answer 19

Depression and anxiety