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HEP 210 Introduction to Occupational Health and Safety

ND2 levelMedical & Health Sciences18 topics

HEP 210 covers 18 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Components of occupational health
  2. Principles of occupational health and safety
  3. Occupational hazards and classification
  4. Hazards leading to occupational diseases
  5. Routes of entry, clinical presentation and control of occupational diseases
  6. Home hazards and prevention
  7. Factory Act 2004 and occupational health
  8. Industrial accidents and safety
  9. Personal protective equipment (PPE)
  10. Prevention and control of industrial accidents
  11. Roles of government and NGOs in workplace safety
  12. Introduction to occupational health and safety
  13. Classification of occupational hazards
  14. Physical hazards
  15. Chemical hazards
  16. Psychosocial hazards
  17. Prevention of home hazards
  18. Health talk on hazard prevention

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Components of occupational health

Occupational health is the science that seeks to protect and improve the health and safety of workers. It is built on four core components: (1) health promotion, (2) disease prevention, (3) injury prevention, and (4) rehabilitation. Mastering these components is essential for the NUC CCMAS, NBTE, and NCCE exams because they form the basis for designing and evaluating workplace health programmes.

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