If one is to achieve success in the chosen occupation, then inclusion of Occupational Health (OH) is necessary. This is because sometimes an illness can be a hinderance to rise in corporate ladder or even in a personally run business. It is even more daunting...

To mitigate the effects of severe heat on cricket players, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has reportedly decided to introduce drinks break after 10 overs of each innings. Usually, T20Is don’t have drinks breaks but the ICC first introduced it during...

The word startup, commonly heard now, was rather uncommon about a decade ago. Startup refers to a company in the initial stages of operation. A startup is founded by one or more entrepreneurs who believe that there is demand for the product or service they...

An Air Traffic Controller (ATC) controls air traffic in the airport as well as in the skies when an aircraft is within vicinity of airport it is intending to land. ATCs use radar, computers, or visual references to do the job. They usually manage multiple...

The act of a child going to school or college to study is no less than an adult going to a workplace to do a job (work). The child is engaged in the act of ‘occupation of studying’ now for an ‘occupation for wages’ in...

Construction industry poses many hazards to its workers – noise, manual handling, stress, fatigue, and many more. In 2020, HSE (Health & Safety Executive) in UK (United Kingdom) reported that 81,000 construction workers suffered from work-related (occupational) ill health (new or long-standing) in 2020. Those...

 Kitchens are of at least 4 types – home kitchen, roadside kitchen, restaurant kitchen and cloud kitchen. Anyone working in a kitchen is a kitchen worker and is prone to certain health risks. What are they? We won’t discuss about the injuries that can happen...