Occupational & industrial health disorders

Occupational & industrial health disorders IN COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING

1. OCCUPATIONAL & INDUSTRIAL HEALTH DISORDERS Presesnted by: Harsh Rastogi , M.Sc. Nursing 1 st year, King George’s Medical University, Institute of Nursing, Lucknow .

2. OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH HAZARDS Or called as occupational diseases & industrial health disorders. They are those diseases caused by the exposure to specific hazards at the workplace/ industrial area.

3. Types of Occupational Hazards Depending upon the occupation an industrial worker may be exposed to five types of hazards:- Physical Hazards Chemical Hazards Biological Hazards Mechanical Hazards Psychosocial Hazards

4. Physical Hazards Heat and cold Light Noise V i b r a t i on Ultraviolet radiation Ionizing radiation

5. Disease due to Physical agents Heat Prickly heat, syncope, heat hyper pyrexia, heat exhaustion Cold Hypo- thermia , frostbite, Trench foots Light Occupational cataract Noise Deafness Vibration Sensitive to spasm Radiation Cancer, Leukemia

6. Chemical hazards Local action Inhalation Dusts Gases Metal and their compounds

7. Disease due the chemical Agents Diseases due to chemical agents Diseases caused Gases (CO2 ,CO, NH3, N2, H2S, SO2, etc) Gas poisoning 2) Dusts (Pneumoconiosis) I. Inorganic dusts:- a) Coal dusts b) Silica c) Asbestos d) Iron II. Organic dusts:- a. Cane fiber b. Cotton duct c. Tobacco d. Hay or grain dust Metals and their compounds (due to inhalation) - Toxic hazards from lead, mercury, cadmium, arsenic, etc. Anthracosis Silicosis Asbestosis, Lungs cancer Siderosis Bagassosis Byssinosis Tobacossis Farmer’s lung

8. Biological Hazards Workers exposed to infective and parasitic agents at the place of work. Mainly prevalent in developing countries resulting in higher risk for the workers. People exposed to the occupation like:- In health care setting workers are in high risk of Hepatitis, Tuberculosis, HIV, encephalitis, etc. Agricultural workers , people working on animal husbandry animal products are in risk of zoonotic disease, worm infestation, tetanus, etc.

9. Mechanical Hazards May cause due to protruding moving parts of machinery. Sometimes due to own carelessness.

10. Psychosocial Hazards Rise when worker fails to adopt to an alien psychosocial environment which leads to psychological factors such as:- Frustration Lack of job satisfaction Poor human relationship Emotional tensions etc

11. Cont… The health effects cause due to psychosocial hazards are:- Psychological and behavioral change Psychosomatic ill health

12. Summery Introduction of the occupational & industrial health disorders. Explain the definition of occupational & industrial health disorders. Explain the types of occupational & industrial health disorders. Enlist the diseases caused by different types of occupational & industrial health disorders.

13. Evaluation Time

14. Questions No. 1 What is the definition of the occupational & industrial health disorders?

15. Question No.2 What are the types of occupational hazards?

16. Assignment Write an assignment on occupational & industrial health disorders.

17. Bibliography Park K., Text Book of Preventive and Social Medicine.18 th Edition, Banarsidas Bhanot : 803-814.