The real or potential harm resulting from an unintended prick or cut with a needle or sharp previously used to take blood or give an injection. This percutaneous injury may transmit over 20 pathogens and of these pathogens, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) are the three most common diseases transmitted. A single … [Read more...]
Pollutants released into the air, as opposed to land and water pollutants, are the most detrimental. Air pollution is the fourth largest threat to human health behind high blood pressure, dietary risks and smoking. Inhaling polluted air takes away at least 1-2 years of typical human life. Tiny particles know as PM2.5, have a diameter of less than … [Read more...]
Any tool such as hoe, fork, and spade or with whatever, that you have to take action to control the health and safety risks in your workplace except where the cost of doing so is’ grossly disproportionate’ to the reduction in the risk. You can work this out for yourself, or you can simply apply accepted good practice (‘Reasonably Practicable’- HSE … [Read more...]
Gymnosperms have no flowers or fruits, and have unenclosed or naked seeds on the surface of scales or leaves, while Angiosperms, also called as flowering plants, have seeds that are enclosed within an ovary (usually a fruit). Gymnosperms are haploid, have spiky, needle-like leaves and are softwood and Angiosperms have a triploid vascular tissue, … [Read more...]
By dint of prolonged or repeated or frequent use of hand-held power tools like power drills, saws, pneumatic drills, and jackhammers, the constellation of vascular, neurological and musculoskeletal signs and symptoms that may occur in workers (farmers, forestry workers, stone drillers, stone cutters and chippers, quarry drillers, aircraft engine … [Read more...]
The physiological condition, following heat exhaustion, caused by prolonged exposure to high temperatures, in which people experience extreme thirst, nausea or vomiting, muscle cramps, headaches, hot dry skin, physical exhaustion, high fever, fast deterioration in the level of response, physical collapse and coma. in the raise of body temperature … [Read more...]
The practice became a tradition precipitously to have a mobile phone in the present day subset of the community. The marketing fundas of the giants of telecom industry made their chicken and the pig in the society which made almost every inhabitant to pitch the payphone very hard to make their way to have a cell phone. It is an alarm to us, the … [Read more...]
The abominable characteristics of the nature down to the mankind committing matricide are having in a way killed the mother Earth’s natural environment, and the global warming taken its alarming position. The resource consumption, waste generation, vehicular traffic, pollution, deforestation and other disturbances pose a chronic threat to the … [Read more...]
Fire breaks out in Ajman residential building >> A fire erupted at a residential building in Rashidyah area in Ajman on Saturday night. The blaze broke out in an apartment located on the 17th floor, it was controlled in less than 30 minutes. >> Brigadier Rashid Jassim Mijlad, director general of Ajman Civil Defence, said the … [Read more...]
Among the fastest growing economies in the UAE, Dammam offers varied occupational interests for workers in both public and private sector enterprises. Occupational safety has been the prime concern for industries in and around Dammam which offer challenging work environments coupled with varied degrees of safety measures for workers to minimize the … [Read more...]