MIEH 300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Occupational Safety And Health, Environmental Health, Personal Protective Equipment

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health
• Course: MIEH 300
• Professor: Devon Payne- Sturges

Document Summary

Define occupational health: occupational health refers to the identification and control of the risks arising from physical,chemical, and other workplace hazards in order to establish and maintain a safe and healthy working environment. and compare/contrast against environmental health. Similarities and differences: higher exposures in workers, chronic low level exposures in communities, similar chemicals, healthy workers and of particular ages, communities include all ages and susceptible pop groups, different regulatory agencies. Name the main federal law that regulates occupational health and the agencies it created osh. Niosh is under department of human health services (research side of occupational health) Ppe: protect worker with personal protective equipment (least effective) Describe how farm workers can be exposed to pesticides and the challenges for preventing those exposures. Can be exposed by defective or no ppe, spills, sprays, drift, inhalation.