Working in a confined space
A confined space is an enclosed space that is not designed for continuous occupancy to work. It has restricted entrance or exit making it difficult to offer first aid, rescue or evacuate a worker. The confined space is a risk for the health and safety...
Reopening of schools – timing and methodology
Schools reopen upon government orders. Certain things being common, reopening of schools is different from reopening an office for multiple reasons. Let’s see what they are and discuss about the timing of reopening and its methodology. Offices have mature individuals who would follow the protocols...
Covid and dangers of small gatherings
Small gatherings like birthday parties, kitty parties, festivals are equally dangerous in spreading new covid infections. In a USA study published in June 2021 in JAMA, using administrative health care data on 2.9 million households, with information on birthdays and COVID-19 diagnoses for each household...
Is demasking in the office cabin ok during pandemic
Business owners and c-suite executives sit in cabins, rarely in open offices. Is it ok to de-mask just because you are seated in a cabin? I have some explanation to offer even if I do not have much scientific information on it. Once in an...
Ergonomics – what is it
Ergonomics is an art and science of helping to fit a job to the worker. Health problems occurs when a worker tries to fit to a job and work long hours. Example: A tall worker doing some job on a table for long hours can...
Frequent breaks prevent work-related injuries and illnesses
A large Korean study involving 25,439 employees found that work-related injuries were significantly associated with long working hours. The risk of work-related injuries increased with increasing working hours in a dose–response pattern in those who took insufficient rest breaks, while the risk was not significant...
Benefits of taking covid vaccine
A recent CDC study showed that unvaccinated people are almost 5 times more likely to be infected by the coronavirus and 29 times more likely to be hospitalized with covid compared to fully vaccinated individuals. Therefore, all the evidence suggests that the millions of those…
Johnson & Johnson covid vaccine
By end-August 2021, 14 million Americans have received the Johnson & Johnson covid vaccine. This is a little over 8% of the 170.8 million Americans who are fully vaccinated, the rest having received a Pfizer or Moderna mRNA vaccine. In early August 2021, the South...
