MODULE 7: PSYCHOSOCIAL ISSUES AND OTHER MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS IN OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
SECTION 6: GENDER ISSUES IN OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY - Introduction
 

OBJECTIVES
By the end of this Section you should:
  1. be familiar with underlying gender concerns in occupational health and safety;
  2. be able to institute a gender sensitive risk assessment and develop an appropriate medical surveillance programme;
  3. have an understanding of a gender sensitive as opposed to a gender neutral approach to occupational health and safety;
  4. be familiar with gender differences in risks and health outcomes.

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ACTIVITIES:

  1. A lecture will provide the overview. Revise these notes.
  2. Work through the exercise.

EXERCISES:

Exercise #1:

You are the newly appointed occupational medical practitioner at a large tertiary provincial hospital. One of your first tasks is to develop a medical surveillance programme. How will you go about this ensuring the staff has a gender sensitive programme in the end?.

Exercise #2:

Write a brief summary of known gender differences in occupational risk and health outcome.