This is referred to as any
health worker engaged in and are capable of providing or assisting in the
provision of meaningful service in the field of occupational health and safety.
They include:
health worker engaged in and are capable of providing or assisting in the
provision of meaningful service in the field of occupational health and safety.
They include:
1.) Occupational Physician: They are trained to cater
for the entire field and all levels of occupational health practices and services.
for the entire field and all levels of occupational health practices and services.
2.) Occupational Health Nurses: Although with a lower level
of expertise, they are much like the physician.
3.) Occupational Hygienist (Toxicologist): Their major concern is with
the chemical and physical components of the work environment, their monitoring
and control.
the chemical and physical components of the work environment, their monitoring
and control.
4.) Ergonomist/Safety Engineers: Their major concern is in
the performance and modification of tools and machines to fit into man’s make
up in the work station. The professionals in this area are usually mechanical
engineers.
the performance and modification of tools and machines to fit into man’s make
up in the work station. The professionals in this area are usually mechanical
engineers.
5.) Occupational Psychology: They are mainly concerned
with the behavioural, modification, better individual and group, occupational
health and safety relationships, conditions of services, social services at
work, alcoholism, drug abuse, neurosis, over-weight, food habit modification
and exercise fitness programmes at work.
with the behavioural, modification, better individual and group, occupational
health and safety relationships, conditions of services, social services at
work, alcoholism, drug abuse, neurosis, over-weight, food habit modification
and exercise fitness programmes at work.
6.) Occupational Physiologist: They are concerned with the
effect of various work methods on the worker.
effect of various work methods on the worker.
7.) Health Educators: They are concerned with the
education of workers on occupational health and safety.
education of workers on occupational health and safety.
8.) First Aiders: They are concerned with the treatment of
injuries arising at the work before the arrival of the physicians or nurses.
injuries arising at the work before the arrival of the physicians or nurses.
