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Can office design influence your health and well-being?
The 21st century has seen offices undergo changes in their look and feel. It started with open offices giving way to cubicles. By 2015, offices had ping pong and foosball tables. Even small offices with the constraints of space and budget offered something to their...
Preventing ‘take-home toxins’ from being taken from workplace
Hazards at workplace should remain at workplace; they shouldn’t come home. Responsible workplaces have a method to mitigate these hazards. When workplace hazards come home, they rub on the family members and cause them harm – and that’s not a nice thing. A worker can...
Occupational Health issues in call-centre workers
Every occupation has the potential to cause injuries and illnesses in workers. It is immaterial if the worker is from the top management or otherwise; is white-collared or otherwise. In a high-profile industry, depending on the job, the robot is both the new blue-collar as...
Diversity and Inclusion in Occupational Health
Until few years back, Occupational Health (OH) essentially was one glove fits all – there were hardly any variations from the standard. But we now live in the world engulfed by the term D&I and with the advent of Gen Z at workplace in large...
Air-conditioned truck drivers’ cabin in India – an Occupational Health (OH) initiative
On 20th June 20203, the Indian Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari signed the file that mandates air-conditioning in truck driver cabins. Addressing the event called 'Desh Chaalak - Recognising those who move India,' the Minister said, ‘Our drivers operate vehicles in harsh temperatures...
AI, U & OI
It is basically about how AI (Artificial Intelligence) affects U (you) and can potentially cause OI (Occupational Illnesses). Yes, AI can cause OI. How? Let us understand… AI is around 60 years old. At the beginning of 1950, John Von Neumann and Alan Turing were...
Robots at workplace and mental health
Robots are already in use – in offices and factories, in affluent homes, in hospitals etc. They are useful for certain types of jobs. Robots are being made to do more intricate jobs in future. How do workers view the presence of robots at workplace...
Managing your mental health is mostly about ‘having a timely frank talk’
What do you do when you feel low? I asked this to a few of my close friends and acquaintances. The answers I got varied from, ‘I eat sugar,’ ‘go for a drink to a pub alone even if a friend is not available to...
Gig economy and worker health
Gig work is temporary or freelance work performed by a person independently on an informal or on-demand basis. Gig work consists of income-earning activities that do not have long-term employer-employee relationship. Gig economy is the contribution of these workers to the economy of the businesses...
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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