Health, safety, environment and non-operating defense affairs

Health, safety, environment

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Industrial health can be briefly defined as the science and art of providing health in work environments, and an industrial health engineer or occupational health specialist is someone who is responsible for identifying, evaluating and eliminating or controlling occupational risk factors. In fact, a doctor only diagnoses and treats diseases and injuries, but an industrial health specialist is responsible for diagnosing, evaluating and controlling work conditions that may cause occupational diseases among workers. Industrial health tries to solve problems before the situation leads to illness.

Ways to achieve industrial health goals

  • Improving the level of health awareness of managers and workers of different units.
  • Examining the raw materials, intermediates of the products in order to determine the extent of its impact on the health of the workers.
  • Follow-up of health records and pre-employment and periodical examinations of workers.
  • Monitoring the health facilities of the work environment and following up on its optimal supply.
  • Supervision and cooperation in order to improve the conditions of the working environment in order to adapt the work to the worker and vice versa in order to prevent the occurrence of occupational diseases
  • Identification and control of harmful factors in the work environment as follows
  • Identification and control of harmful physical factors of the work environment including sound, heat and humidity, cold, vibration, lighting (lack and increase of light), IR, UV rays , etc.
  • Harmful chemical factors in the work environment such as gases, vapors, fumes, dust, acids and bases, metals, etc.
  • Harmful biological factors in the workplace include: transmission of viruses, fungi, parasites, bacteria, rickettsia through blood and other body fluids.
  • Harmful mechanical and ergonomic factors of the work environment, including: improper body positions during work, lifting and carrying more than the permissible limit, work surfaces including tables, chairs, tools used, equipment that are not designed properly
  • Harmful mental and psychological factors of the work environment such as worker relations with employers, colleagues and subordinates, job stress, incentives and punishments and job promotion, job satisfaction, etc.