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Carbon monoxide: a dangerous gas in homes, offices and factories
Presence of carbon monoxide (CM) can cause irritating symptoms and even death depending on its concentration in the ambient air. CM is present not just in factories and offices but in homes too. Basement car parking spaces are also a source where carbon monoxide (CM)...
Toxic Positivity at workplace
On 3rd March 2023, Times of India, a newspaper, flashed a news with a heading ‘Toxic body positivity: Ranbir Kapoor says actors are starved, unhappy, and pained, do not eat enough.’ Ranbir Kapoor is a young popular actor in Indian cinema. He spoke about this...
Kharghar heatwave deaths: seek Occupational Health advice too!
Sunday, 16th April 2023 was a deadly day for 14 people who had come to attend a social rally to be addressed by A-list politicians in Kharghar, a suburb in Navi Mumbai, India. As they came to attend a socio-political rally, the 14 were dead...
All women work: a brief history of work and their health
All women work, including the full-time homemakers. How does the work (job) impact women and their health? Women have been working since time immemorial, mostly at home doing all the household work. In the olden days it was common to have 5 or more children...
Making workplace disability-friendly
If you have arthritis, a bone joint disability, or any other medical condition that restricts your mobility (movements), and if your workplace is safe for you, it is disability-friendly. Is your workplace designed to make you move freely so that the chances of your tripping...
Work-related (occupational) rheumatoid arthritis
A Swedish study suggests that workers exposed to airborne toxins may have an increased risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA), an immune system disorder that causes swelling and pain in the joints. The study found that among men, bricklayers, concrete workers, manual load handlers and...
Work-life balance, politicians and Occupational Health
Jacinda Ardern, the 42 year old Prime Minister (PM) of New Zealand, on 19th January 2023 announced her resignation citing that she no longer had ‘enough in the tank’ to continue leading her country. The resignation, she said, was not because the job was hard...
De-glamorize overwork if you want to live long and healthy
In some cultures, overworking is glamour. In some organizations, it is glamourous to overwork; employees think they are being seen. There are also organizations where overwork is encouraged. Should anyone overwork? In the 1990s, when sociologist Junko Kitanaka from Keio University, Japan first started studying...
PFAS reduction: a wellness initiative
Poly Fluro Alkyl Substances (PFAS) are synthetic chemicals used in industrial and personal products. PFAS are also called as ‘forever chemicals’ because they have long half-life (not easily broken down) and hence persist in the environment, including human and animal tissues. PFAS have been detected...
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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