background industrial growth is occurring exponentially, for unimpeded growth, industrial workers are recruited on a large scale globally. there are various sectors of industries present for which laborers are trained in accordance to their requirements. as workers possess the general health risk of occupational hazards, various labor laws, schemes and policies are undertaken by the government ...

Occupational Health Research at NIOSH The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is the U.S. federal agency that conducts research and makes recommendations for preventing work-related injuries, illnesses, and deaths.1 The work by NIOSH protects the safety and health of the nation’s 155 million workers.2 NIOSH provides the only dedicated federal investment for research ne...

The effect of intravenous injection of beryllium nitrate to adult female Albino rats primed with Liv.52 and to non-primed rats has been studied on various hematological parameters after 2, 10 and 30 days of such injection. There was a significant decrease in RBC count, Hb%, neutrophils, blood sugar, alkaline phosphatase, globulin and total protein values with the administration of beryllium nit...

Up to the second world war, the industrial medical services in this country had paid a great deal more attention to the field of physical health and illness than to psychiatry, and much progress had certainly been made. Various occupational diseases had been discovered and some diminished, either by better conditions of work, by eliminating dangers, by better selection of work, or by earlier de...