View source for 118. Psychosocial and biological hazards in the workplace

* Psychosocial hazards in the workplace
** Work-related stress is one of the most frequent health risks in workers in Europe
** Psychosocial risk factors of workers
*** Excessive workload
*** Long working hours
*** Conflicting demands
*** Lack of influence over their own work
*** Poor management
*** Psychological and sexual harassment
*** Discrimination
** Prevention
*** Primary
**** Eliminating the risks themselves
*** Secondary
**** Regularly ask workers if they have any complaints
*** Tertiary
**** Training employees to better handle their work situation
**** Providing employees with coping tools
**** Prove opportunities for treatment and recovery
* Biological hazards in the workplace
** Two types
*** Allergens or toxic agents which cause occupational diseases in respiratory tract and skin
*** Microorganisms which causes zoonoses or other infectious disease
** In food industry, agriculture, working with animals, health care workers, working with wastes, laboratories, etc.
** Groups of biological hazards
*** 1 – cannot cause human disease
*** 2 – able to cause preventable or treatable human disease
*** 3 – causes severe preventable or treatable human disease
*** 4 – causes severe non-preventable and untreatable human disease
** Biosafety level (BSL)
*** A set of precautions required to isolate dangerous biological agents in a lab
*** Biosafety level 1
**** Lowest level
**** Lowest levels of precautions
**** For non-pathogenic E. coli, staphylococci, etc.
*** Biosafety level 2
**** For hepatitis viruses, HIV, pathogenic E. coli, staphylococci, etc.
*** Biosafety level 3
**** For M. tuberculosis, SARS-Cov-2, Yersinia pestis, etc.
*** Biosafety level 4
**** Highest level
**** Highest levels of precautions
**** For Ebola virus, Marburg virus, Lassa virus, etc.
** Prevention
*** Risk assessment and reduction
*** Workers must be informed on risks and trained
*** Regular health surveillance
**** Workers with symptoms should stay home
*** Vaccination
*** Proper hygiene
*** Personal protective equipment (PPE)
**** Gloves
**** Masks
**** Face masks
**** etc.

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