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Occupational Medecine
The Occupational Health Nurse and risk assessment
Risk assessment for chemicals is a prerequisite to any risk prevention programme in general. It should lead to the construction of preventive actions plan in the Occupational Health Nurse’s project approach.
Occupational Health Nurse (OHN) and chemicals
Since the creation of the Inter University Diploma Course « DIUST » in 1994 in France followed by a license in occupational health, legislation as well as the OHN's role keeps evolving.
Occupational doctor: What to do on learning through an employee or the director that new chemical products are being used?
What does an occupational doctor have to do on learning through an employee or the director that new chemicals are being used?
Training of occupational health professionals
More than 75000 corrosives, irritants or sensibilising products for the skin, eye or respiratory tracks are registered by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA).
Carcinogens: Different classifications
Three main lists of internationally recognized carcinogens exist: those of IARC, of the ACGIH and of the European Union (CLP). It becomes thus difficult to find one's way as a novice!
Nitric acid, a danger lurking
Nitric acid is a strong acid, found in the nature in salt forms (nitrates), with the formula HNO3.
Why speak about “chemical injury” rather than “chemical burn” ?
Although the informal language of many countries use the term of “burn” as well for thermal accidents as for chemical splashes, it would be judicious, as the German-speaking ones do it, to adopt different names.
Endocrine disruptors
The endocrine system plays an essential part in the maintenance of the biological equilibriums that are necessary for life.
