How to identify risks to your health arising due to work
Should you as an individual know about the risks to your health that could arise due to work, workplace or working condition (3Ws), or even an external environment. Well, knowing risks to your health around you will help you take some basic precautions to prevent...
Virtual Occupational Health: worth considering by organizations
The covid pandemic forced many industries to transition to virtual working, if not fully, then to a large extent. Complex works were successfully managed virtually. As a result, the world learnt a new way of working, virtually. During pandemic, home became the new office and...
Workplace burnout: is ‘sleep leadership’ a solution
Sleep affects leadership, yet it is hardly considered. Evidence is that your sleep has a direct bearing on the way you lead. Sleep also affects performance of your team. If you want to be an admired leader, sleep is a good starting point. Sleep is...
Fatty liver: should you be concerned…
Fatty liver is a commonly heard word these days among people those who do an annual health check because an ultrasound of the abdomen is also usually done. An estimated 20 to 40% of the population has some degree of fatty liver, and hence an...
Covid may shrink, damage, rewire and slow the brain
An Oxford study has found that even mild covid infection may cause people to suffer from cognitive deficit, inability to smell, trouble doing mental calculations and think critically. Some covid affected people may take longer to pick up meaning of things or focus on conversations....
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...
