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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...
Worsening outdoor air quality and health advisory
According to WHO (World Health Organization), the air we breathe is growing dangerously polluted and 9 out of 10 people now breathe polluted air killing about 7 million people every year. The simplest one-line advice when air quality deteriorates is to stay indoors and close...
Health problems faced by air traffic controller (ATC)
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...
Has Bumrah introduced OH in Indian sports
Jasprit Bumrah’s statement after the Dubai debacle in a cricket match recently against New Zealand seems to have unintentionally introduced OH (Occupational Health) in Indian sports. OH is a medical specialty that deals with preventing illness (especially work-related) and improving performance, in addition to many...
Is the school/college causing illness in your child
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...
Ergonomic chair: for better sitting comfort
The pandemic has introduced many new words in the minds of people, especially office-goers who started working from home; one of these words is ergonomics, the other being mental health. Both, ergonomics and mental health are some of the silent pandemic that have the potential...
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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