Write a report of not more than 2000 words, about a work-related disease or injury.

The Impact of Work on Health

Learning Outcomes:

The assignment will test the learning outcomes of the module ~

⦁ LO1:Demonstrate an understanding of human physiology in relation to work-related hazards, and the impact of different types of work on human health and wellbeing.

⦁ LO2: Gain practical knowledge of health surveillance and the control mechanisms required to assess the impact of work on health and wellbeing

⦁ LO3:Able to define the factors that make some people vulnerable to work-related illness or injury.

Assignment Details:
You are required to write a report of not more than 2000 words, about a work-related disease or injury.

The material you use for your report will be a product of you researching the topic from legitimate academic sources. All of the points that you make MUST be based on these sources and correctly referenced within your report.

Your report should include the following information and you can use these sub-headings to help you structure it.

⦁ Occupations:

⦁ Indicate which occupation suffers with the condition/illness:
⦁ If you choose a condition which is suffered by more than one occupation, for example asthma, please stick to one occupation such as bakers as this will make the assignment easier for you.

⦁ Physiological data:

⦁ You need to discuss the normal physiology, for example what the organ(s) actually do.
⦁ Then discuss the way that your chosen condition alters the normal physiology.

⦁ Trends in the Illness/condition:
⦁ Indicate how many cases there are at the present time.
⦁ Discuss and, if possible, illustrate with a graph/chart if the illness/condition is rising or falling.
⦁ This statistical information can be shown within an appendix.

⦁ General Health and Lifestyle Factors:

⦁ Comment on general health and lifestyle factors that could make workers more vulnerable to your illness/condition or related conditions.

⦁ For example, if the disease is related to the lungs one of the things to think about is smoking, also you need to think about the wider determinates of health.

⦁ Workforce Safeguarding:
⦁ Make suggestions around steps which an individual and the employing organisation could take in order to protect the workforce from acquiring the condition in the first place.
⦁ Here you could think about; risk assessment, COSHH, RIDDOR

⦁ Measures:

⦁ Discuss any measures that can be put into place to lessen the impact of the condition on the working population.

⦁ Here think about; Health surveillance, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) mandatory training for example manual handling etc.

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