Comorbidities management: role of OH physician in reducing deaths generally and during a pandemic
By now most of us know that hospitalization and deaths due to covid were more in those who had comorbidities. The four main comorbidities leading to Covid-19 deaths were diabetes, hypertension, cancer, and chronic kidney disease, as per a recent research done at Australia's Griffith...
Work-related eye illnesses: the need to take care
Taking care of the eyes and protecting them while working or even otherwise, should not be ignored; not just to prevent injuries but also eye illnesses. At workplaces, the role of OH physician in protecting eye health is of utmost importance. In USA, around 65,000...
Jamsetji Tata and ventilation in a textile mill
While ventilation is a big word today, thanks to Covid, Jamsetji Tata, founder of the Tata Group who founded the Empress Mills in Nagpur on 1 January 1877, thought about ventilation in his mill almost 145 years ago. Empress Mills was a textile mill that...
Goats Google Occupational Health
Sometime in April 2009, Google brought in a herd of goats to mow the grass instead of using lawnmowers at its Mountain View headquarters in California. The company said that it wanted to take a more ‘low carbon’ approach with the goats reducing the company's...
Swiss cheese slice model and the pandemic
A Swiss cheese slice has holes because of carbon dioxide bubbles that form in the cheese during its making. The Swiss cheese model is an excellent way to explain about protection that one can get from the coronavirus reaching you. Each Swiss cheese slice as...
Ratan Tata & Occupational Health
Ratan Tata, Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons, is known to always understand the pains of people, including the workers. This got reiterated in a book ‘# TATA STORIES 40 timeless tales to inspire you’ in which the author Harish Bhat writes that Ratan Tata used...
Should you consult a doctor before you travel?
We all travel, but we all do not fall sick. Sickness during or soon after returning from a travel should be avoided by taking appropriate precautions, preferably by seeking professional advice as some illnesses that are life-threatening can be prevented. The article briefly discusses the...
Video call fatigue (VCF)
An audio call does not cause as much fatigue as does a video call. Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft says, "Thirty minutes into your first video meeting in the morning, because of the concentration one needs to have on video, you're fatigued." Fatigue is extreme tiredness...
