L2 definition

• Occupational health


  Promotion and maintenance of the highest degree of the physical, mental and social well-being of workers in all occupations
• Occupational health


  • Prevention from amongst workers of ill-health caused by their working conditions
  • Protection of workers in their employment from risks resulting from factors adverse to health
  • Placing and maintenance of workers in an occupational environment adapted to their physiological and psychological ability
• Occupational health aims to promote and maintain workers' optimal health, including physical fitness to work, mental soundness, and social health
• Focus of occupational health

  • Prevention from illnesses or diseases arising from the workplace or work processes
  • Anticipation, identification, evaluation, control and review of hazards/risks
  • Improve quality of work environment and work processes to suit workers' physiological and psychological capabilities
  • Improve work space and means of access for workers to maintain equipment (preferably at design stage)
• Occupational health disciplines


  • Occupational Medicine
  • Industrial Hygiene
  • Occupational Toxicology
  • Ergonomics
  • Epidemiology
  • Industrial Psychology
• Occupational Medicine


  Medical specialty concerned with the promotion and maintenance of the physical and mental health of employees in occupational settings
• Industrial Hygiene


  Preventive science devoted to anticipation, recognition, evaluation and control of health hazards at the place of work
• Occupational Toxicology


  Study of chemical or physical agents that produce adverse responses in the biological systems with which they interact
• Ergonomics


  Can perform the task better/effective
• Epidemiology


  The study of the distribution and determinants of health-related
• Recent trends in occupational health include reduced incidence of occupational diseases, improved methods to detect early occupational diseases, and development of exposure standards
• These trends are largely due to improvement in technology, safer and healthier work environment, positive work behaviour of workers and employers, and introduction of OSH legislation to protect the safety and health of people at work