Occupational Health Care

Industrial Hygiene would be “discipline is responsible for identifying, evaluating and controlling occupational pollutants.

There are three types of pollutants:

1. Physical Contaminants.
2. Chemical Pollutants.
3. Biological Pollutants.

Industrial hygiene is primarily focused on physical and chemical contaminants, while biological contaminants enter the medical field.

Chemical pollutants may occur in the following states:

1. Solids:
2. Dust (silica).
3. Fibers (asbestos).
4. Smoke (fuel).
5. Liquids: Aerosols (pesticides).
6. Gaseous vapors (solvents).

Physical contaminants are forms of energy and distinguish between them:

1. Mechanical energy: noise, vibrations.
2. Thermal Energy: Heat/cold.
3. Radiation: ionizing/non-ionizing.

The industrial hygiene identifies, evaluates and supervises the pollutants:

1. The first step is to identify the contaminants that can affect worker health.
2. A second phase of implementation in every field of industrial hygiene would be the measurement, ie, quantifying the pollutant.
3. Depending on the measurement, assess the level of pollutant, to decide whether we have a safe situation or face a dangerous situation, we will use criteria.
4. If you decide that this is a safe situation, they will perform a periodic inspection to determine continued in the same line. If, however, you decide that the situation is dangerous will have to act on pollutants through environmental control.

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