Occupational Health

• Occupational and environmental health is the

multidisciplinary approach to the recognition,
diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of
illnesses, injuries, and other adverse health
conditions resulting from hazardous
environmental exposures in the workplace,
the home, and the community.
• objectives :
– Recognizing and Preventing
– Surveillance
– Equity and Social Justice
– Global Environmental Hazards
• Epidemiology
• Toxicology
• Hygiene industry
• Occupational Ergonomics
• Occupational and Environmental Health
Practice
• Occupational health Law
 Epidemiology
• is the study of the distribution and
determinants of disease frequency among
populations.
 Toxicology
• the study of the adverse effects of chemicals
in humans and other living organisms. It plays
a fundamental role in chemical risk
assessment.
Objective :
• Hazard identification
• Exposure evaluation
• Management/control of hazards
• Environmental risk management
 Hygiene industry
• The applied science concerned with the
identification, measurement, appraisal of risk
and control to acceptable standards of
physical, chemical, and biological factors
arising in or from the workplace, which may
affect the health or wellbeing of those at
work, or in the community (BOHS)
 Occupational ergonomics
• multidisciplinary approach to workplace
evaluation and design
• Objective
– to establish and maintain a safe work environment
 Occupational and environmental
health
• Occupational and environmental health
programs can range from those that are very
comprehensive, offering a large array of
services to the worker population, to those
that provide focused services to meet
mandatory regulatory requirements.
objective :
• reduce hazard exposure and to prevent
disease and injury