MODULE 5: OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE & TOXICOLOGY III - CONTENTS

Note that the new webreference to the ILO Encyclopedia is http://www.ilo.org/safework_bookshelf/english/

SECTION 1:

NIHL - clinical and compensation aspects

OM5 1.1:How To Approach This Section including access to current legislation and an approach to interpretation of audiograms
OM5 1.2: Fine Tuning Our Practical Approach To The New Hearing Conservation Legislation
SECTION 2:

Audiometry practical

OM5 2.1: Approach to assessment of NIHL
OM5 2.2: Images related to NIHL
OM5 2.3: How to go about audiometry
OM5 2.4: Interpretation of the audiogram
SECTION 3:

Vibration

OM5 3.1:ILO encyclopaedia approach to Vibration
SECTION 4:Radiation

OM5 4.1: Basic Concepts in Radiation Physics - Introduction
OM5 4.2: Types Of Radiation
OM5 4.3: Exposure
OM5 4.4: Introduction to radiation biology
OM5:4.5:Management of individual Clinical effects
SECTION 5:

Work-Related Musculo-Skeletal Disorders

OM5 5.1: How To Approach This Section
OM5 5.2: Definitions
OM5 5.3: Risk Factors
OM5 5.4:Clinical Classification
OM5 5.5: Compensation aspects
OM5 5.6: Reporting aspects
SECTION 6:

Biological hazards

OM5 6.1: Prevention of biological hazards
OM5 6.2: An approach to Hazardous Biological Agents in the Workplace
OM5 6.3: Specific focus: HBA in agriculture
OM5 6.4: Controlling biological risks at the group (workplace) and individual level
SECTION 7:

HIV/AIDS in industry

OM5 7.1: An Approach To Managing The Epidemic
OM5 7.2: What Are The Issues?
OM5 7.3:What Are The Issues? (Continued)
OM5 7.4:What Are The Issues? (Continued)
OM5 7.5:How do We Respond?
OM5 7.6:How do We Respond? (Continued)
OM5 7.7:What are the next steps?
SECTION 8:

HIV and the workplace from the perspective of an Occupational Medical Practitioner

OM5 8.1:Objectives and Activities
OM5 8.2: Lecture
SECTION 9:

Primary care management of employees with HIV/AIDS

OM5 9.1: Objectives and Contents
OM5 9.2:Issues and Background
OM5 9.3:Clinical Staging
OM5 9.4: Staging and Prognosis
OM5 9.5:Management of Different stages
OM5 9.6:Perceptions about HAART
OM5 9.7:Anti-Retroviral Therapy: The Khayelitsha Experience
SECTION 10:Travel Medicine

OM5 10..1: Introduction
OM5 10..2:Travel risks
OM5 10..3:Pretravel management
OM5 10..4:Post-travel management
OM5 10..5:Exercises
SECTION 11:Assorted lectures

OM5 11..1: The Back by Dr Crozier
OM5 11..2:The Hand by Dr Solomons

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