An occupational disease or industrial disease is any chronic ailment that occurs as a result of work or occupational activity. It is an aspect of occupational...

occupational environment. According to the official estimates of the United Nations, the WHO/ILO Joint Estimate of the Work-related Burden of Disease...

Occupational cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are diseases of the heart or blood vessels caused by working conditions, making them a form of occupational...

Occupational lung diseases comprise a broad group of diseases, including occupational asthma, industrial bronchitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease...

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long-term risks may be an increased risk of developing occupational disease, such as cancer or heart disease. In general, adverse health effects caused by short...

An occupational infectious disease is an infectious disease that is contracted at the workplace. Biological hazards (biohazards) include infectious microorganisms...

Black lung disease (BLD), also known as coal workers' pneumoconiosis, or simply black lung, is an occupational type of pneumoconiosis caused by long-term...

increased psycho-social occupational stress. It is the occupational risk factor with the largest attributable burden of disease, according to these official...

general, serve to greatly reduce the incidence of blood-borne disease transmission in occupational settings of healthcare workers. There are 26 different viruses...

which became rare following occupational exposure limits established around 1950. Berylliosis is an occupational lung disease. While there is no cure, symptoms...

recommendations for the prevention of occupational diseases and injuries. These documents are submitted to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration...

Silicosis is a form of occupational lung disease caused by inhalation of crystalline silica dust. It is marked by inflammation and scarring in the form...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a type of progressive lung disease characterized by chronic respiratory symptoms and airflow limitation...

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ICD-11 of the World Health Organization (WHO) describes occupational burnout as an occupational phenomenon resulting from chronic workplace stress that...

An occupational injury is bodily damage resulting from working. The most common organs involved are the spine, hands, the head, lungs, eyes, skeleton,...

Artificum Diatriba, meaning “The Diseases of Workmen”. The book detailed the accurate description of the occupational diseases that most of his time workers...

agent at workplace. It is an occupational lung disease and a type of work-related asthma. Agents that can induce occupational asthma can be grouped into...

An occupational fatality is a death that occurs while a person is at work or performing work related tasks. Occupational fatalities are also commonly...

right of individual workers who contract occupational diseases to sue their employers under New Jersey's occupational injuries law, which at the time had a...

Occupational skin diseases are ranked among the top five occupational diseases in many countries. Contact Dermatitis due to irritation is inflammation...

The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 is a US labor law governing the federal law of occupational health and safety in the private sector and...

accidents happen on the job each year, resulting, together with occupational diseases, in more than 2.3 million deaths annually. The phrase "in the course...

backgrounds when diagnosing and treating disease, and Bernardino Ramazzini in 1700 outlined many occupational ses in his book De Morbis Artificum. There...

agriculture. It is one of the most common occupational diseases in the world. Depending upon the type of dust, the disease is given different names: Coalworker's...

(December 2012). "Newly recognized occupational and environmental causes of chronic terminal airways and parenchymal lung disease". Clinics in Chest Medicine...

Everett M. Smith. It has sometimes been used as a synonym for the occupational disease known as silicosis, but it should not be as most silicosis is not...

of Accident, Dangerous Occurrence, Occupational Poisoning and Occupational Disease) Regulation 2004dd Occupational Safety and Health (Noise Exposure)...

Radium jaw, or radium necrosis, is a historic occupational disease brought on by the ingestion and subsequent absorption of radium into the bones of radium...