Lectures (2hrs)
1. Occupational medicine as a discipline, definitions, goals and activities of the field. Preventive nature of occupational medicine.
2. Occupational medical care, legislative background, content, main tasks.
3. Health risk assessment in occupational medicine. Categorization of work activities - procedure, design management, measurement and evaluation of risk factors for categorization, evidence of risky work.
4. Health fitness assessment. Medical examinations, purpose, content of preventive examinations.
5. Physical risk factors in the work environment and their impact on human health 1.
6. Physical risk factors in the work environment and their impact on human health 2.
7. Factors of physical workload and their impact on human health.
8. Dust as a risk factor for the working environment and its impact on human health.
9. Chemical factors in the working environment and their impact on human health.
10. Biological factors in the working environment and their impact on human health.
11. Factors of mental and sensory stress and their influence on human health.
12. Occupational diseases, definitions, assessment and recognition elements.
13. Accidents at work. Specifics of working conditions for juveniles, women, pregnant women and people of higher age. Work-related illnesses - the most common illness of a non-professional nature that can be aggravated by work.
Exercise (1hr)
1. Individual types of prevention in occupational medicine, possibilities of their use and importance for protection and support of employees health. Examples.
2. Anamnestic and somatic examination (TK and TF measurements).
3. Categorization - examples. Category categorization.
4. Medical fitness assessment - examples, case reports.
5. Investigation methods at risk of noise 1 (speech, tuning, otoacoustic emissions)
6. Investigation methods at risk of noise 2 (tone audiometry).
7. Examination methods in risk of vibration (finger plethysmography and cold test).
8. Examination methods in the risk of local muscular load (EMG), practical examples.
9. Investigation methods in dust risk 1 (spirometry).
10. Investigation methods in dust risk 1 (RTG).
11. Examination methods at risk of visual stress (visual acuity examination).
12. Occupational diseases - trends in the number of reported diseases, case reports. Work-related diseases. Examples, case reports.
13. Investigation methods in risk of chemical substances (BET).
1. Occupational medicine as a discipline, definitions, goals and activities of the field. Preventive nature of occupational medicine.
2. Occupational medical care, legislative background, content, main tasks.
3. Health risk assessment in occupational medicine. Categorization of work activities - procedure, design management, measurement and evaluation of risk factors for categorization, evidence of risky work.
4. Health fitness assessment. Medical examinations, purpose, content of preventive examinations.
5. Physical risk factors in the work environment and their impact on human health 1.
6. Physical risk factors in the work environment and their impact on human health 2.
7. Factors of physical workload and their impact on human health.
8. Dust as a risk factor for the working environment and its impact on human health.
9. Chemical factors in the working environment and their impact on human health.
10. Biological factors in the working environment and their impact on human health.
11. Factors of mental and sensory stress and their influence on human health.
12. Occupational diseases, definitions, assessment and recognition elements.
13. Accidents at work. Specifics of working conditions for juveniles, women, pregnant women and people of higher age. Work-related illnesses - the most common illness of a non-professional nature that can be aggravated by work.
Exercise (1hr)
1. Individual types of prevention in occupational medicine, possibilities of their use and importance for protection and support of employees health. Examples.
2. Anamnestic and somatic examination (TK and TF measurements).
3. Categorization - examples. Category categorization.
4. Medical fitness assessment - examples, case reports.
5. Investigation methods at risk of noise 1 (speech, tuning, otoacoustic emissions)
6. Investigation methods at risk of noise 2 (tone audiometry).
7. Examination methods in risk of vibration (finger plethysmography and cold test).
8. Examination methods in the risk of local muscular load (EMG), practical examples.
9. Investigation methods in dust risk 1 (spirometry).
10. Investigation methods in dust risk 1 (RTG).
11. Examination methods at risk of visual stress (visual acuity examination).
12. Occupational diseases - trends in the number of reported diseases, case reports. Work-related diseases. Examples, case reports.
13. Investigation methods in risk of chemical substances (BET).