HYGIENE AND PREVENTION
| OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE (2 credits) | GENERAL AND APPLIED HYGIENE (2 credits) |
Learning outcomes of the course unit
The student must become acquainted with the principles of prevention in the workplace, with the approaches to risk assessment, with main prevention interventions (technical, organizational, health interventions, etc…) and of personal protection, with the safety and health risks connected with the work in a biomedical laboratory and their consequences (occupational or job-related diseases, accidents).
On the workplace they must have a behaviour which is respectful of their own safety and health and of that of the other operators; they must know how to approach the management and organization of prevention on the workplace.
They must have a knowledge of the main applicable standards for the protection of health and safety on the workplace.
They must provide guidelines for the modality and prevention interventions of infectious and chronic-degenerative diseases.
They must provide information relating to the role of the laboratory technician with reference to primary and secondary prevention
They must provide necessary information for the adoption of suitable behaviours for the prevention transmittable diseases or of diseases than can be acquired in the laboratory.
Course contents summary
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Health and safety risks for the employee in the workplace
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Risks in the biomedical laboratory: accident risks, chemical risks, physical risks (ionising radiations excluded), biological risks, ergonomics and organizational factors
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Accident on the workplace, occupational diseases and occupation-related diseases
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Risk assessment
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Primary prevention: technical, organizational and procedural activities
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Information and training in the management of risks
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Health surveillance
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Legislation for the protection of the health and safety of workers
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The subjects of prevention in the workplace
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Rights and duties of the employee
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Bodies involved in the protection and safety of workplaces
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Prophylaxis of infectious diseases
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Direct general prophylaxis measures
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diagnostic investigation
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isolation
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notification
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epidemiological survey
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Specific direct prophylaxis measures:
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Vaccine prophylaxis
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sero-prophylaxis
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chemoprophylaxis
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Indirect prophylaxis measures:
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! disinfection / sterilization
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disinfestation
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environmental reclamation
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Secondary prevention:
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tolls and strategy for secondary prevention
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cervical, breast, prostate, colon-rectum neoplasias
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Type 2 diabetes
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Ischemic cardiopathies
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! Liquid waste disposal
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Making water drinkable
Recommended readings
La Sicurezza nei Laboratori. GP Gardini, Centro Grafico dell'Universita di Parma
