Link between Environmental Health and Occupational health and safety

Environmental health is a sector of public health specialty field that is directly connected to other
aspects of both the built up and natural environments that further affects the health of the
individuals and the population. The term “occupational health”, which is a subfield of
environmental health deals with the health and safety issues in a workplace as well as has a
strong focus on the prevention of the primary hazards that might cause injuries and diseases
among the employees in the organization (Environmental and Occupational Health, 2018). Most
of the environmental and occupational health practitioners usually carry out their jobs as
detectives and inspectors who help in assessing and ensure safe water, food, good quality of air
and sanitary conditions. They also assess and state the solutions for the prevention and control of
hazards supervising the remedies of toxic waste as well as investigate and prevent outbreaks of
different diseases including those which are caused by infectious and toxic agents, occurrence of
natural disasters and bioterrorism. The increase in need for the environmental and occupational
health comes from the threat of environmental and occupational health, including those who are
associated with global warming and climate changes. These can be recognized as the effects of
the indoor and outdoor pollution of air on cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, deadly
outbreaks that are generally caused by food that have been contaminated with different types of
germs such as E. coli, Salmonella and Listeria. There are diseases that can be spread out by
means of unsafe drinking water and cancer-causing chemicals, toxins and other such agents.