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Sleep advice from a Governor: the solution may worsen the problem
On 5th December 2023, a governor of a State (province) in India urged the Education Department to consider change in school timings so that students could catch up with sleep. I was wondering, that even if the advice was right, the solution was such that...
Fourth Industrial Revolution: future of worker health, job safety and security amidst AI
We are witnessing IR 4.0 (the 4th industrial revolution) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), an often heard term these days is a part of it. AI is still in its infancy, and as perceived by workers, a robot is its partner in crime. We yet don’t...
How business owners impact worker health: a historical perspective!
History is proof to many business owners taking steps to prevent illnesses and accidents in workers either due to compassion or to be seen as a good employer. History is proof also to ruthless business owners with scant regard to worker health. There are no...
Tunnel trapped workers: from Occupational Safety to Occupational Health
On Sunday, 12th November 2023, at around 5.30 AM IST, a portion of the Silkyara Bend - Barkot tunnel, under construction, collapsed in the Uttarkashi district of the state of Uttarakhand, India. 41 workers got trapped inside the tunnel. On Tuesday, 28th November, after 17 days,...
WHO launches a commission to tackle loneliness
On 15th November 2023, a news flashed out from the WHO (World Health Organization) headquarters announcing a new Commission on Social Connection to address loneliness, with US Surgeon General Dr Vivek Murthy as its co-chair. In 2018, UK had appointed its first Minister for...
Is your office as safe for your health as it looks?
Companies and some Occupational Health (OH) physicians often get overwhelmed when it comes to establishing OH in the factory and/or office. In India, companies usually comply by establishing OH in their factories as per recommendations of Indian Factories Act. However, there are companies who go...
Discrimination at workplace and high blood pressure
The world in general and workplaces in particular are becoming a difficult place to be. A recent study published in Journal of the American Heart Association (JAMA) in April 2023 seem to suggest that those who experienced workplace discrimination developed high blood pressure. One of...
The 70-hour workweek: should India work so much?
Recently one of India’s IT leader and Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy, whom many including me hold in high esteem, sparked a debate when he spoke about working for 70-hours per week. In the past, many Indian leaders have voiced similar views. Bhavish Aggarwal, CEO...
Occupational (work-related) health risks and sustainable energy transition
The traditional oil and gas sector, now called as energy sector is witnessing major changes. Conventional energy sources like oil (petrol, diesel etc.) wood, charcoal etc. are being displaced by ‘green energy’ to mitigate the dangerous and often irreversible effects of conventional energy on climate...
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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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