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Fatigue at workplace: role of OH physician
Fatigue is a health risk at workplace; however, it can be managed. Fatigue compromises on worker health, both physical and psychological, which increases chances of poor health, minor unsafe acts, serious accidents and low productivity. Since 1910, with widespread use of electric light, the sleep...
The heat is back and is bad for outdoor workers and politicians
On Monday, 22nd April 2024, a UN research issued a warning that over 2.4 billion workers will be exposed to extreme heat at workplaces due to climate change which will affect more than 70% of world’s workers. Back home, in India, a prominent politician and...
Is the corner cabin cornering the CEO
Its lonely at the top is an old adage. In the world of social media coupled with advances in AI, its lonelier in the corner. The role of a CEO has been around for about a hundred years. The look and feel of a CEO...
A flexible workplace is good for physical and mental health
From the rigid and long work hours amounting to slavery with a horrific workplace during the Industrial Revolution to somewhat lesser rigid work hours before the Covid pandemic, office workers are now having a great time with both flexible work hours as well as a...
Prolonged ‘work from home’ may not be good for mental health
Countries and companies are experimenting with patterns of working as Covid changed the way we look at the working world. The ‘work from home’ during Covid became ‘work from anywhere’ later on. However, it is about 18 months since Covid has almost disappeared, yet many...
Wellness programs fail if workplace is sick
Just as a common cold in any one person can potentially infect others, a workplace can get sick too and infect those occupying it. Making sure that the workplace is healthy before undertaking any wellness programs for workers is necessary for its success. In fact,...
How to tackle mental health issues for a larger population
In many cultures, corporations and countries, mental health was talked about in whispers before Covid. Not any more…now it is talked about more openly. Today, thanks to Covid, social media has been able to shed to some extent the stigma around mental health, and the...
Pigeon feeding and its municipal ban in Mumbai: a step to improve respiratory health
Finally, in December 2023, the BMC (Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation) imposed a ban on pigeon feeding in Mumbai city. What should have been done decades ago will eventually give solace to a lot of citizens. A ban, well in time would have prevented thousands of lungs...
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...
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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