"Employment is nature's physician and is necessary for human happiness" Galen, ca 180 AD. In 2003/04 $ 30 million trading days had been lost to illness which had been as a result of function related concerns. Two million individuals believed these had been struggling with a work related illness in 2003/04. ½ one million individuals had been reported to be becoming affected by stress/depression or anxiety. 183,000 claimed to possess breathing or lung problems. Hearing difficulties had been sustained by 81,000, skin problems by 31,000 and heart disease/attack by 66,000.

These harrowing figures are a shocking understanding of the abuse of health and safety inside place of work. Although these figures have improved slightly now; health issues because of occupations are nevertheless a problem.

An occupational disease can be a chronic ailment that occurs on account of function. It's when symptoms of diseases are more prevalent in bodies of workers than the public.

Improving organisation, function practises, addressing problems including workload (over or under), matching workers skills to their jobs all night . clear lines of accountability and responsibilities are appropriate steps to avoid ill health occurring in the place of work. The proper function patterns, security and ensuring a 'happy' work place as well as good communication and safe working practises not simply enhance the safety within the workplace but also creates a better working environment.

o Carpel Tunnel Syndrome - happens when the median nerve, which runs from your forearm in to the hand, becomes pressed or squeezed on the wrist. The symptoms are usually burning, tingling, or itching numbness in the users hand with the hand along with the fingers, particularly the thumb together with the index and middle fingers with many individuals even stating their fingers feel useless and swollen even though they appear fine.

o Byssinosis - disease inside the lungs caused by sucking in cotton dust or dusts off their vegetable fibers including flax, hemp, or sisal while in the job

o COPD, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - the the signs of COPD are a persistent cough/phlegm, lack of breath and chest infections. As soon as the damage of COPD has had effect it cannot be reversed. COPD is damaged airways inside lungs, causing them to become narrow, making it harder for air to penetrate and from the lungs.

o Silicosis - The Oldest coming from all work related diseases. It develops as time passes when dust from Silica is inhaled within the lungs. A persistent cough, with or without sputum, difficulty breathing and chest tightness are all signs and symptoms of Silicosis. These usually appear over years of experience high amounts of Silica dust, using the tissue from the lungs becoming damaged by Fibrosis and being substituted for solid nodules of scar tissue formation. Even with the exposure stops, the condition still progresses.

o Asbestos - function related illness on account of exposure to asbestos may be highly serious. Mesothelioma is cancer within the pleura and asbestosis is a type of lung fibrosis, both of which can be a direct results of asbestos, along with bronchial cancer woodcraft.

o Occupational Lung Disease - covers an array of damage, affecting things such as the tubes that carry air interior and exterior the lungs (airways), the little air sacs where oxygen is transferred from your air we breathe into our blood stream. Other damage may affect the thin lining between our lungs and ribcage. Symptoms include heart problems, prolonged coughing, breathlessness and wheezing.

o Occupational Asthma - common sense says that by 2010, the cases of occupational asthma are to be reduced by 30%. Occupational Asthma remains to be the most popular way of work related illness. Dust from flour and grain; Industrial baking, farm work, grain transport. Wood dust, from real wood, western red cedar, carpentry, joinery and sawmilling. Colophony, mostly present in soldering fumes and also within glues and floor cleaners Dust from latex rubber, from jobs involving latex gloves employed in nursing and dentist work. Dust from insects and animals are typical reasons behind Occupational Asthma.