INSTITUTE - UAIHS

DEPARTMENT – PHYSIOTHERAPY
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSIOTHERAPY
Community medicineand PTT 305

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Industrial health

Course Outcome
CO Title Level
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CO1 DEFINATION OF INDUSTRIAL HEALTH Remember

CO2 EXPLAIN THE MECHANICAL HAZARDS Understand

CO3 EXPLAIN THE PRECAUTIONS Understand

CO4 Understand http://garmentlearner.blogspot.com/2014/11/industrial-

health-safety-guidelines.html
CO5 Understand

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 Industrial
health

To learn about industrial

health

http://garmentlearner.blogspot.com/2014/11/industrial-health-
safety-guidelines.html
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Industrial health

A branch of public health concerned with the health and well-being of workers. Its
aims are to eliminate hazards and reduce industrial fatigue in the workplace.

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Introduction
• A hazard is any agent that can cause harm or damage to humans,
property, or the environment.
• Mechanical hazards are those associated with power-driven machines,
whether automated or manually operated.
• In an industry, people interact with machines that are designed to drill,
cut, shear, punch, etc. If appropriate safeguards are not in place or if
workers fail to follow safety precautions, these machines can apply the
same procedures to humans. Which can cause major human injuries.
• Also machines can cause damage to the property and machines can
also harm the environment.

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Common Mechanical Injuries
• Cutting and Tearing
• A cut occurs when a body part comes in contact with a sharp edge. The seriousness of cutting
or tearing depends on how much damage is done to the skin, veins, arteries, muscles, and even
bones.
• Shearing
• Injury occurs mechanical force that acts on an area of skin in a direction parallel to the
body's surface. It depends on the pressure exerted.
• Crushing
• Injury occurs when body part is caught between two hard surfaces. that progressively
move together, thereby crushing anything between them. It is mostly painful, and
difficult to heal.

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Common Mechanical Injuries
• Breaking
• Machines used to deform engineering materials in a variety of ways can also cause broken
bones. A break in a bone is known as a fracture. Fractures are classified as simple,
compound and complete fracture.
• Puncturing
• Puncturing results when an object penetrates straight into the body and pulls straight out,
creating a wound in the shape of the penetrating object.
• Straining and spraining
A strain results when muscles are overstretched or torn. Strains and sprains can cause swelling
and intense pain.

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Safeguarding from mechanical hazards
• All the hazards can be reduced by the application of appropriate
safeguards.
• The National Safety Council (NSC) defines safeguarding as follows:
• Machine safeguarding is to minimize the risk of accidents of
machineoperator
contact. The contact can be either
• A direct Contact with Moving part.
• Contact with chips, chemical and hot metal splashes, and circular saw
kickbacks.
• Caused by the direct result of a machine malfunction..
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General Precautions
• All operators should be trained in the safe operation and maintenance of their
machines.
• All machine operators should be trained in the emergency procedures to take when
accidents occur.
• All employees should know how to activate emergency shutdown controls.
• Inspection, maintenance, adjustment, repair, and calibration of safeguards should be
carried out regularly.
• Supervisors should ensure that safeguards are properly in place when machines are in
use.
• Operator teams of the same system should be trained in coordination techniques

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 Assessment pattern
FAQ
Q1. Explain about the industrial health.
Q2. Explain the role of industrial health.

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 Abbreviation
No abbreviations

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refrences
• Park’s Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine – K. Park
• http://garmentlearner.blogspot.com/2014/11/industrial-health-
safety-guidelines.html

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