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Chapter 7
Occupational Health
Abstract People work at homes, schools, forests, markets, industries, construction
sites, mines, stadiums, places of worships, harbors, bus stands, railway stations,
airports, fashion shows, and movie theater to name just a few. Every work location
has risks associated with its own. In some places high degree of precautions are
taken depending on the ownership of workplace, attitude of the corporate, law of
land, work culture, awareness of rights, initiation to project global image and selfreputation, management systems, and certifications. An occupation which is needed
for one’s living can also become the cause for death. There is no occupation which
is 100% safe. Understanding occupational health is therefore important to safeguard
the health of public. In acknowledging this complex interplay of factors, this chapter discusses the fundamentals of occupational health risks and their possible
impacts on environmental health.
7.1 Introduction
People work everywhere at home, school, forest, market, industry, construction
sites, mines, stadiums, places of worships, harbors, bus stand, railway station, airports, fashion shows, and movie theater to name a few. Every work location has risk
associated with its own. In some places high precautions are taken depending on the
ownership of workplace, attitude of the corporate, law of land, work culture, awareness of rights, initiation to project global image and self-reputation, management
systems, and certifications.
An occupation which is needed for one’s living can also become the cause for
death. There is no occupation which is 100% safe. For example, 311 election officials died out of about 6,000,000 and another 2232 people fell sick who were
involved in election duty in Indonesia in 2019.
Although work provides livelihood and other benefits, it also exposes to a wide
array of workplace hazards and presents risks to the health that include physical and
psychosocial risk factors.
Disease may be transmitted from patients to physicians by contact, vehicle (food,
blood, water, drugs, etc.), air, and vector.
Furthermore, waste management which is meant to safeguard public health may
be detrimental to the waste management professionals.
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
R. Chandrappa, D. B. Das, Environmental Health - Theory and Practice,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64480-2_7
Chapter 7
Occupational Health
Abstract People work at homes, schools, forests, markets, industries, construction
sites, mines, stadiums, places of worships, harbors, bus stands, railway stations,
airports, fashion shows, and movie theater to name just a few. Every work location
has risks associated with its own. In some places high degree of precautions are
taken depending on the ownership of workplace, attitude of the corporate, law of
land, work culture, awareness of rights, initiation to project global image and selfreputation, management systems, and certifications. An occupation which is needed
for one’s living can also become the cause for death. There is no occupation which
is 100% safe. Understanding occupational health is therefore important to safeguard
the health of public. In acknowledging this complex interplay of factors, this chapter discusses the fundamentals of occupational health risks and their possible
impacts on environmental health.
7.1 Introduction
People work everywhere at home, school, forest, market, industry, construction
sites, mines, stadiums, places of worships, harbors, bus stand, railway station, airports, fashion shows, and movie theater to name a few. Every work location has risk
associated with its own. In some places high precautions are taken depending on the
ownership of workplace, attitude of the corporate, law of land, work culture, awareness of rights, initiation to project global image and self-reputation, management
systems, and certifications.
An occupation which is needed for one’s living can also become the cause for
death. There is no occupation which is 100% safe. For example, 311 election officials died out of about 6,000,000 and another 2232 people fell sick who were
involved in election duty in Indonesia in 2019.
Although work provides livelihood and other benefits, it also exposes to a wide
array of workplace hazards and presents risks to the health that include physical and
psychosocial risk factors.
Disease may be transmitted from patients to physicians by contact, vehicle (food,
blood, water, drugs, etc.), air, and vector.
Furthermore, waste management which is meant to safeguard public health may
be detrimental to the waste management professionals.