Occupational Health Care

Not only a reference to salary in determining the type of work.

Safety is something that should be a priority.

What does this mean a big salary, if security is not pawned? Is not no benefit if threatened life or health?

You need to know the two most important things that cause accidents, including:

* Behavior that is unsafe
* The environmental conditions are not safe

However, according to the Office of Human Resources Training, the cause of the accident, never because of the safety of workers was both dangerous behavior by the influence of the following factors:

1. Frivolous and not the heart – heart
2. Not eligible
3. No regular work processes
4. Do not use protective clothing
5. The condition of weak entity

The proportion of accidents with 3% due to the cause can not be avoided, such as natural disasters, for example. Other factors that interfere with the security of 24% due to the work environment or equipment which are not refundable and 73% due to dangerous behavior.

Of course, the most effective means to prevent accidents is the occurrence of five types of dangerous behavior to avoid the already mentioned. Therefore, appropriate measures against child labor and equipment should ensure that workers have the concept of health and safety to prevent accidents.

If so, is the training of health and safety is very important. The aim, among other things, protect the health of workers, improve conditions, efficiency, avoiding the occurrence of accidents and occupational diseases. According to various safety and health at work:

1. In anticipation of the existence of factors that affect risk and that appropriate arrangements.
2. Understanding the types of workplace hazards
3. Assessing the level of risk in the workplace
4. In the presence of danger or complications.

They relate to safety, hazardous factors, including the most common:

1. The types of chemical hazards: inhalation or skin contact between the liquid metal, non-liquid metals, hydrocarbons and ash, gas, steam, steam, smoke and toxic Dew.

2. Dangers of physics: the temperature of the hot and not cold and radiant environment of ionizing radiation, noise, vibration and air pressure is not normal.

3. The man, because the risk of the project: lighting and lamps, which provide a lower risk of transportation and the threat of plant reaction.

What, how, to take the threat of health hazards under control:

1. Control Engineering: to isolate the changes in work procedures, and concluded with hazardous substances, the use of automation to work with operational changes and ventilation of moist air.

2.Administrative Control: Reducing the exposure time, make arrangements to pay the health and safety regulations, personal protective equipment, installing warning signs, make a list of content data is safe in making the emergency management system training.

Based on work and Welfare Act of accidents, employers on the principles of the workload, workers should help solicit participation in the labor insurance, to ensure safety.

Furthermore, after an accident, the owner should be subsidies for the accident. If the business does not comply with the registration of workers involved safe work under the Employment Act, employers have to pay a fine.

We will try to collect the necessary measures, classified by the scope of the same, so the employer can guarantee job security in their activity. At work, can affect health in many ways and all are important. It can cause damage as a result of workload, whether physical or mental disability, and in general, psychosocial and organizational factors can generate fatigue, stress, job dissatisfaction, and so on. To act on them with the tools we Ergonomics and Psychology applied to prevention of occupational hazards. Read more…

Recent research has shown that women who work night shifts in 50 percent greater chance of getting breast cancer, 1 and that working in shifts the risk of heart disease by 40 percent verhoogt.2 3 here so you can speak of ‘new diseases “, although earlier in this term is thought to RSI, burn-out, acoustic shock and multiple chemical sensitivity.

Occupational diseases are diseases primarily by the work or working conditions have caused. At least that is the legal definition of medical-insurance context is used and applicable to the more classic or more mono causal diseases Read more…

Prevention is the set of provisions and measures taken or foreseen in all stages of the activity of the enterprise or institution, to the professional risk reduction. Prevention allows to preserve the health and welfare.

Practice in the field of welfare at work, visit the website of the Belgian knowledge about welfare at work .
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Biological contaminants are alive, with a particular life cycle, to penetrate inside the human being, cause infectious diseases or parasitic types.

Biological contaminants are microorganisms, cell cultures and human endoparasites which may cause any infection, allergy or toxicity.

Therefore, is only as dangerous biological agents capable of causing alterations in human health. These are diseases caused by biological agents Read more…

Infrared Radiation or Thermal: These rays are visible but its wavelength falls between 8,000 Angstroms and 0.3 mm. A body subjected to heat (over 500 ° C) emits heat radiation, which can be made visible when the body temperature is high enough. We must point out that these rays are not the only producers of caloric effects. We know that the hot bodies emit infrared up, but all radiation can be transformed into heat when absorbed. Read more…

There is no doubt that the employer or employer is responsible; to create the company, becomes the main generator of all the risks associated with a task. If we add a hapless management, most urgently appear accidents and occupational diseases.

In Puerto Rico Section 6 A of the Law on Safety and Health at Work states: Every employer shall furnish to each employee employment and a place of employment free from recognized hazards that are causing or likely to cause death or injury physically to their employees ”

As such, employers must conduct an evaluation of each task and identify the hazards that are present. They then must seek an alternative to eliminate these hazards, starting with engineering controls, administrative controls and failing to provide personal protective equipment.

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Wash the respirator in warm water with soap for ventilation and a soft sponge, then rinse with clean water.

Let it dry and then stored in a plastic bag to keep it clean.

Protect the respirator, do not put anything on top when you store it prevents cracking or deformed.

Always inspect the respirator before use to ensure is in good condition

The night shift at work is strenuous and can result in potential health problems like obesity and cardiovascular disease risks may become more important than previously thought, according to a recent study.

The study by Harvard University in Boston and published in the online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences revealed a higher risk of diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease among night shift workers.

Night work motivates blood leptin levels are reduced, increasing the risk of long-term obesity and other symptoms include a higher level of stress hormone cortisol and increased blood pressure, according to the report.

Recent studies in animals that underwent change from day to night, even changed sleeping habits and this premature death.

The results of two studies on night shift work, published in 2001, also suggested an increased risk of developing breast cancer in women, possibly because prolonged exposure to light at night, interfering with production of melatonin, a hormone produced in response to darkness.

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This is not always possible; it is for this reason that personal protective devices (PPD) play a fundamental role in the health and safety of the operator, since they are responsible for avoiding direct contact with surfaces, environment, and any other entity that may adversely affect their existence.

Apart from creating comfort in the workplace, this report is to consolidate knowledge about the use, selection and maintenance of these devices, which include can be individual and collective.

To attain a logical first define what is a personal protective device (PPD), then consider the importance and how to persuade the operator to understand the positive consequences associated with using these, then we walk through the human body from feet to head to explain in detail the proper use of (DPP).

In each of the parties, finally a way to raise awareness of the DPP groups, an explanation regarding the importance of color and childbirth in business and time will be announced in due use.