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Occupational Hygiene Assessments for the Use of Protective Gloves
Published in Robert N. Phalen, Howard I. Maibach, Protective Gloves for Occupational Use, 2023
Occupational hygiene (also known as industrial hygiene) is the art and science of anticipating, recognizing, evaluating, and controlling health and safety hazards from biological, chemical, and physical agents and other stressors in the workplace and community.3
Law, ethics and medicine
Published in Mari Robbins, Medical Receptionists and Secretaries Handbook, 2017
The regulations give guidelines to employers which are based upon principles of occupational hygiene, the key duties being: to identify substances hazardous to health in the workplaceto assess formally (in writing) the risk to employees from these materialsto control adequately and monitor the riskto provide health surveillance where appropriateto provide adequate information, instruction and training.
Health and Safety
Published in Michael Drury, Lynne Hobden-Clarke, The Practice Manager, 2017
Michael Drury, Lynne Hobden-Clarke
The basic principles of occupational hygiene underlie the COSHH regulations. These include: assessing the risk to health, arising from work and what precautions are neededintroducing measures to prevent or control the riskensuring that control measures are used, equipment is properly maintained and procedures observedmonitoring, where necessary, the exposure of employees and carrying out an appropriate form of surveillance of healthinforming, instructing and training employees about the risks and the precautions to be taken.
Ranking the health precautions for the ‘new normal’ after the COVID-19 outbreak in production environments
Published in International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 2022
In fact, most of these precautions are basically precautions aimed at preventing employees from coming together unnecessarily. As is known, OHS physicians have critical roles in improving health conditions in workplaces and preventing some occupational diseases. By increasing the powers of OHS physicians in all kinds of measures to be taken regarding COVID-19, expanding their field of activity without bureaucratic obstacles will help detect and prevent COVID-19 earlier. It is known that the WHO encourages the wearing of masks, especially in public areas [41]. For this reason, it is a serious measure to encourage the use of masks with appropriate protective properties in closed production areas. Beside this, improving hygiene conditions in workplaces will help prevent the possible spread of COVID-19 among employees in the new normal period. Improving occupational hygiene conditions includes the following precautions: putting hand scrub/hand disinfectants/disinfectants in different areas of workplaces, reducing the number of common items, placing practical lidded waste bins in various places in workplaces, environmental cleaning and disinfection should take place at least once a day, etc.
Occupational safety and health in shared workplaces according to workplace inspection reports
Published in International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 2021
Päivi Kekkonen, Arto Reiman, Seppo Väyrynen, Hanna-Kaisa Rajala
The European Union (EU) directives on safety and health at work address a situation similar to that of a shared workplace; however, the OSH Framework directive does not provide much detail. It states: Where several undertakings share a work place, the employers shall cooperate in implementing the safety, health and occupational hygiene provisions and, taking into account the nature of the activities, shall coordinate their actions in matters of the protection and prevention of occupational risks, and shall inform one another and their respective workers and/or workers’ representatives of these risks. [13,p.6].The roles and responsibilities of different actors on a construction site are also addressed in the individual directive on temporary or mobile construction sites [14].
Probabilistic model for assessing occupational risk during the handling of nanomaterials
Published in Nanotoxicology, 2020
José Renato Alves Schmidt, Diego José Nogueira, Silvia Modesto Nassar, Vitor Pereira Vaz, Marlon Luiz Neves da Silva, Denice Schulz Vicentini, William Gerson Matias
The second part corresponds to the level of exposure to the worker during the execution of a certain task through the emission characteristics node. The information acquired in this step considers the characteristics of the task as: duration, frequency and amount. Additionally, information on the formation of dust and aerosols in the handling of NMs can also be informed in this part. The nodes in parts 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 are responsible for defining the level of control the measures that will influence the exposure along with the emission characteristics node. Part 3.1 refers to the use of CPE protection. Part 3.2 nodes relate to protection through the use of administrative measures and part 3.3 nodes are assigned to PPE protection. The probabilities of the measures control variables were defined according to the hierarchy of control of measures related to occupational hygiene. The highest weighting was given to the measures involving CPE, followed by administrative measures and lastly the use of PPE.