Occupational hygiene
Occupational hygiene
Occupational hygiene (pronounced: /ɒkjʊˈpeɪʃənəl haɪˈdʒiːn/) is the discipline of anticipating, recognizing, evaluating and controlling health hazards in the working environment with the objective of protecting worker health and well-being and safeguarding the community at large.
Etymology
The term "occupational hygiene" is derived from the Greek word "hygieinos" which means healthy and the Latin word "occupatio" which means occupation or job.
Related Terms
- Industrial hygiene: This is a science and art devoted to the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, prevention, and control of those environmental factors or stresses arising in or from the workplace which may cause sickness, impaired health and well-being, or significant discomfort among workers or among citizens of the community.
- Occupational health: This is a multidisciplinary field of healthcare concerned with enabling an individual to undertake their occupation, in the way that causes least harm to their health.
- Occupational safety: This is an aspect of occupational health that focuses on the safety, health, and welfare of people engaged in work or employment.
- Exposure assessment: This is the process of estimating or measuring the magnitude, frequency and duration of exposure to an agent, along with the number and characteristics of the population exposed.
- Risk assessment: This is the identification of hazards that could negatively impact an organization's ability to conduct business.
- Hazard control: This is a process in which the potential or actual hazardous situations are detected and countermeasures are taken to reduce or eliminate the hazards.
- Ergonomics: This is the study of people's efficiency in their working environment.
- Workplace health surveillance: This is the ongoing systematic collection, analysis, and dissemination of exposure and health data on groups of workers.
- Occupational disease: This is any chronic ailment that occurs as a result of work or occupational activity.
- Occupational exposure limit: This is an upper limit on the acceptable concentration of a hazardous substance in workplace air for a particular material or class of materials.
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Occupational hygiene
- Wikipedia's article - Occupational hygiene
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