3. Major health issues
Given that we spend around a third of our lives at work, there are few health problems that are not directly or indirectly influenced by working conditions. Providing an overall picture is therefore no easy task. All the more so as the way in which these problems are defined, and their hierarchy, depend on the point of view we adopt.
3.1 From the specialists' point of view
For specialists, the reference grid is medical and the entry point is a diagnosis. The regulatory notion of occupational disease is governed by tables defining the list of criteria for a pathology to be recognized as being of occupational origin. There are around a hundred tables, based on binary reasoning: either the pathology is due to work, or it is not.
However,...
The Ultimate Scientific and Technical Reference
This article is included in
Safety and risk management
This offer includes:
Knowledge Base
Updated and enriched with articles validated by our scientific committees
Services
A set of exclusive tools to complement the resources
Practical Path
Operational and didactic, to guarantee the acquisition of transversal skills
Doc & Quiz
Interactive articles with quizzes, for constructive reading
Major health issues
Courses of action
Bibliography
Websites
European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
Estimated cost of accidents and health problems at work (2013)
...
The Ultimate Scientific and Technical Reference
