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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...
Excessive meetings: an occupational risk to mental health and productivity
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is known to tell employees to skip pointless meetings that waste their time. Satya Nadella, during covid once remarked by citing brain studies about video meetings to highlight how draining they can be, saying, “Thirty minutes into your first video meeting...
Effect on mental health due to inadequate or poor safety systems at workplace
We hardly think about what effect a poor or inadequate safety system could have on mental health. We are aware that it can physically harm, but a UK study published in May 2020 in Occupational Medicine journal indicates that inadequate or poor safety systems does...
Occupational Health for occupational success
If one is to achieve success in the chosen occupation, then inclusion of Occupational Health (OH) is necessary. This is because sometimes an illness can be a hinderance to rise in corporate ladder or even in a personally run business. It is even more daunting...
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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