Health protection and promotion at work.

Health protection and promotion at work.

Official United Kingdom figures record annually 1400 deaths and 145,000 sufferers from chronic effects of occupational injury and disease. Evidence indicates that occupational disease directly due to work is underestimated. With more understanding of the multiple causes of disease, the concept of work related disorders has broadened to include four categories: work as a direct cause, a contribu...

Health protection and promotion.

Occupational medicine--its contribution to protection and promotion of health at work.

This article deals with the special demands on occupational medicine due to the changes of work and of tasks at workplaces. Conclusions for research in occupational medicine are drawn from these processes. They are discussed on the basis on an analysis of literature from the years 1980-1998. Focus of future research in the field of occupational medicine is developed by taking international tend...

Workplace Health Protection and Promotion

T raditionally, health protection and health promotion activities have operated independently of each other in the workplace. Health protection has usually been viewed as encompassing the activ­ ities that protect workers from occupational injury and illness ranging from basic safety training to the use of protective gear, work orga­ nization, and safety-enhancing modifications. Health promotio...

Skin health and protection at work in Croatian beautician apprentices.

Beauticians are recognized as being at risk regarding the development of occupational skin diseases, mainly allergic contact dermatitis, with acrylates and methyisothiazolinones being the most frequently found occupational allergens (1–4). Little is known about behaviour at work regarding safety and the prevalence of skin symptoms in beautician apprentices. This article describes skin protectiv...