Workplace Exposure

Question 1

Occupational Disease

Answer 1

health outcomes caused/influenced by exposure to workplace hazards

Question 2

significance of Occupational Disease

Answer 2

Recognition

Magnitude of exposures

Question 3

why not report on the job injuries

Answer 3

• fear of being fired, losing hours
• may not seem too bad at first
• doing something you weren’t supposed to do
• illegal workers

Question 4

problems with reporting injury

Answer 4

• company can get in trouble if there are lots of violations/injuries

Question 5

examples of on the job injuries for teachers

Answer 5

stress, carpal tunnel, back problems, exposure to infectious disease

Question 6

car accidents

Answer 6

if job involve driving

on site researchers, truck drivers

Question 7

the first ID’d Occupational Disease

Answer 7

scrotal cancer in chimney sweeps

Question 8

examples of Occupational Disease

Answer 8

-ppl who make matches: Necrosis of jaw
- black lung disease: coal miners
Brown lung: fiber dust, textiles
- silicosis, mesotheliona, asthma: construction industry, tile cutting
Potters rotL dust
COPD: smokers
Hypersensitivity: artificially cooled buildings with water

Question 9

Disease vs. Injury

Answer 9

Disease: EXPOSURE based
Injury: response to applied FORCE (car crash)

Question 10

Injury types

Answer 10

Trauma: injury from extrinsic force…stress or wound to psyche too

Cummulative Trauma: repeated small injuries culinating in a debilitating condition

Question 11

importance of job title…

Answer 11

how you identify major hazards associated with job

Question 12

Autoworkers

Answer 12

they use soap that strips the mechanical stuff off their hands

then they have more exposure because skin cant protect as well

Question 13

Injury Issues Incidents

Answer 13

Triangle Shirtwaste Company

Gavley Bridge

Question 14

what these disasters lead to

Answer 14

Unions!

Question 15

When Unions don’t work

Answer 15

Right to work states (AZ)

people are poor and will work despite safety

Question 16

Triangle Shirtwaste Company

Answer 16

16 hr work shift…locked in NYC
fire broke out, people trapped

fire worse bc fibers in air from sewing machienes

1911

Question 17

Gauley Bridge

Answer 17

workers exposed to high levels of slica dust…Scilliosis and lung disease
1931
they did not have adequate protection!

Question 18

how many injuries a year?

Answer 18

half a million

Question 19

work place injury compared to illness

Answer 19

93% injury

6% illness

Question 20

rank of workplace ILLNESS

Answer 20

#1: disorders from repeat trauma (carpal tunel) (inc. with technology)
#2 Skin disorders (less than others added, but others is not one thing)
#3 everything else 

also Reproductive disorders
 Neurotoxic disorders
 Noise-induced hearing loss
 Dermatologic disorders
 Psychological disorders

Question 21

common workplace disease agents

Answer 21

noise 
dust
heavy metals/fumes 
carbon monoxide (drivers, autoworkers)
misc. chemicals
ionizing radiation 
microbial agents
stress

Question 22

fume vs. metal

Answer 22

fumes: when you add heat, get quasi-melting

think blow torch)

Question 23

common occupational disesase

Answer 23

allergic and irritant contact dermatitis
hearing/hearing conservation
accute trauma
chronic trauma
musculoskeletal
infectious disease

Question 24

MERS

Answer 24

camels

physicains die from it a lot… occupational disease

Question 25

work related fatalities ranked

Answer 25

#1 highways and transportation (23% and 53% respectively)
#2 falls (11%)
#3 Homicide 10%
#4 Struck by falling object 10%

Question 26

Accident

Answer 26

NEVER

Question 27

Prevention Approaches

Answer 27

• Engineering Controls
• Process Change (substitution)
• Admin controls (PPE)
• Surveillance
• Defined Limits

Question 28

Blame?

Answer 28

Good for who pays medical bill

not good because it is NOT a prevention strategy…prevention strategies would save more monies