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Chernobyl nuclear accident 1986: poor ergonomics as one of the causes
Incorrect ergonomics or its absence not only causes aches and pains (musculoskeletal disorders) but can also cause industrial disasters, including a nuclear accident. A scientific paper by VM Munipov (1992) emphasized that unless the ergonomics lessons are fully learned, a similar disaster like the Chernobyl...
Start-ups: the need to embrace Occupational Health
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...
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...
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...
Founder, occupationist.com
We all work, so some of our diseases could be occupational.
Dr Ajay Sati is a medical graduate from Grant Medical College, Mumbai. He has post-grad qualifications in OH. This site is to make people aware that occupations can also cause disease and to be mindful of that. Individuals, MSMEs or large corporations can contact him for queries on OH issues. He has worked almost 30 years as an OH physician, mostly with MNCs in India and the Middle East. He has been blogging for decades on beingwell.in, making him perhaps India's first health blogger. beingwell.in is a website devoted to wellness, and is being currently reconstructed.
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