Occupational medicine

Occupational medicine

Occupational Medicine is the branch of clinical medicine most active in the field of Occupational Health. Its principal role is the provision of health advice to organizations and individuals to ensure that the highest standards of health and safety at work can be achieved and maintained. Occupational Physicians must have a wide knowledge of clinical medicine and be competent in a number of important areas.

Occupational Health aims for the promotion and maintenance of the highest degree of physical, mental and social well being of workers in all occupations; the prevention among workers of departures from health caused by their working conditions; the protection of workers in their employment from risks resulting from factors adverse to health; placing and maintenance of a worker in an occupational environment adapted to his physiological and psychological equipment and, to summarize, the adaption of work to people and of each person to their job.

Organizations associated with Occupational Medicine:
[1] The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM)
The Western Occupational and Environmental Medicine Association (WOEMA)
The Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM)

Occupational Medicine may refer to:

References

  1. ^ http://www.acoem.org/
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