Jan 25 - Prevention and Control of Occupational and Work-Related Diseases
5 Jan 2025 - 30 May 2025
4 credits
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Full course description
Description
To introduce students to basic occupational and workplace environmental health, drawing on the multiple facets of health, workplace hazards and the diseases associated with them, and prevention and control of occupational and work-related diseases
Instructors
Dr Sharimawati Hj Sharbini
Format
Online forums will be used to support the scaffolding of knowledge, understanding, and abilities. The teaching style will include video conferencing, discussion forums, and activity-based learning techniques. The focus of the teaching style will be determined through learning diagnostics, undertaken by students, which will identify learning styles needs. A cooperative learning framework is used as a means of supporting equity for both teaching and learning styles.
Video Overview
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What you get
- Introduction to Occupational Diseases:
- Effects of workplace exposures on health and health on work
- Basic occupational health services
- Occupational health standards
- OHS legislations in Brunei Darussalam
- Worker health surveillance:
- Principles of worker health screening
- Common occupational and work-related diseases/ conditions:
- Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
- Occupational Dermatoses
- - Occupational Lung Disorders (Occupational Asthma, Pneumoconioses, Lung Cancers)
- -Occupational Cancers
- -Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders
- -Work-Related Psychosocial Disorders and Fatigue
- - Non-communicable diseases and impact on work (and vice versa); NCD screening as part of worker health
- Surveillance:
- -Hypertension
- -Diabetes Mellitus
- -Cardiovascular disorders
- -Neurological disorders
- - Fitness to Work and Fitness to Return to Work