Safety, Occupational Health And Enviroment Topic – March/2019

05/03/20190

TOPIC: HEALTH CARE IN HOT WEATHER

?While the sun has positive effects such as helping to synthesize vitamin D, improving circulation and increasing metabolic productivity, but too much contact can cause extremely dangerous harms for human health such as thermal shock, exhaustion, skin cancer, etc
?? ?Therefore, we will explore the topic of occupational safety about harms as well as specific and appropriate measures to protect the body at all times of the year.———–

UVA rays contribute to skin damage, especially causing premature aging of the skin.

♻️ Harms of sunlight to the body?

Sunlight consists of spectral rays and others which has different wave length. In particular, UV rays. In particular, UV rays are short wavelengths light, essentially a type of rays harmful to the human body, UV rays will have the most effect when contacting the human’s skin and eyes, reducing body resistance in the long term. UV rays usually have three forms, ultraviolet A (UVA rays), ultraviolet B (UVB rays) and ultraviolet C (UVC rays):

UVB rays provide energy for the skin to make vitamin D, but it also causes the skin to darken and directly damage DNA.
UVA rays contribute to skin damage, especially for premature aging
UVC rays are blocked in the earth’s atmosphere so they do not affect the skin.

1. Severe sunshine affects the skin

UVA and UVB rays affect the skin which frequently exposed to the sun, attacking the dermis, causing darkened skin and sunburnt
In addition, high-intensity sun exposure causes wrinkles, causing damage and leading to skin cancer
Statistics of the American Academy of Dermatology and skin cancer are the most common cancers in the US, with nearly 9,500 Americans diagnosed with skin cancer every day. (According to sonha.vn)
Skin cancer causes fatal when malignant tumors are formed. In addition, other skin cancers can cause death in many different ways. (According to vietnammoi.vn)

2. Pathogen proliferation

The food is quickly rancid

In hot and humid weather (especially when the temperature lasts for 37 – 38oC), the food is quickly rancid. Fleas and bacteria proliferate, spread germs through food and drinking water, causing food poisoning, affecting our quality of life.

3. Heat shocking

Heat shock is a phenomenon when the temperature rises excessively, leading to physical disorders, manifested through increased body temperature gradually turning to red skin and a strong increase in heart rate, a more serious condition occurs such as dizziness, headache even unconscious and fainting.
As reported by the British Association of Health, up to 59% of strokes happened in the summer are caused by heat shock. The cause is often due to high-intensity activity for a long time in a high-temperature environment. People with chronic diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and thyroid dysfunction are more likely to become victims of heat shock

4. Dehydration and minderals deficiency

In hot weather, the body gets dehydrated due to excessive sweating, especially for people who exercise a lot, do heavy work or go out in the sun
Dehydration reduces blood volume, reduce blood through the kidney, reduce urine excretion, and cause metabolic disorders in cells, increase blood-soluble products. Dehydration also reduces important minerals in the body such as potassium (K +), sodium (Na +), chloride (Cl-) …
Dehydration causes the body to become unbalanced, tired, disturbing the regulation of body temperature, and reducing physical and mental performance

♻️ How to take care health in hot weather?

To ensure health in hot weather, we should do the following hobbies:

Drink at least 02 litres of water in 02-03 hours during working time
Drink much water before starting work
Checking color of urine
Take rest time in hot weather
Take a long sleep at night
In working time, inform to colleagues (direct manager) in case of illness

Hope brothers and sisters comply with the above to ensure the best health

By: Phuoc Thanh Corp’s Safety Board

Safety, Occupational Health And Environment Topic December/2018

23/12/20180

As you know, our country is developing quite fast and social life standard is increasing, the traffic situation does not seem to meet the requirements of the times and is a big problem of the country. Therefore, how to ensure traffic safety? It is a big question, which requires the efforts of all of us.

According to statistics from the National Traffic Safety Committee, during 3 holidays of September 2, 2018, traffic accidents claimed the lives of 46 people and injured 53 people, in October 2018 alone, the whole country suffered 1,603 cases, killing 662 people and injuring 1,230 people (According to baomoi.com). A terrible number!

Traffic accidents are indeed an obsession that is not inferior to war, not only sowing misery, shattering family happiness but also causing great economic losses, greatly affecting the image of Vietnam before countries in the world.

Where is causes?

There are many reasons for traffic accidents such as Road quality, management mechanism is inadequate, an important reason accounted for 85% of accidents occurred, that is the people’s sense of obeying the traffic laws are too poor, everyone thinks only of themselves but does not think of others, so it just happens that they do not yield to each other at the fork, the intersection caused a traffic jam, especially rush hour; some acts of speeding up overtaking, zigzagging, going in the wrong way, using stimulants (alcohol, beer, drugs, etc.) also contribute to accidents.

Therefore, each of us must voluntarily build a culture in traffic, including:

Strictly abide by traffic rules;

Having compassion, community manner expressed by giving way when walking on the road;

When an accident occurs, a collision everyone will help the victim, etc.

Let’s start with the smallest habits like:

Wear a helmet when riding on a motorcycle, an electric bicycle;

Stopping or parking the right part of the road, strictly obeying the traffic signal;

- Do not line up, do not use the phone while driving, do not flick, swing, play when participating in traffic, etc.
- In particular, those have fun and often use stimulants (beer, wine, etc.), we must arrange a plan for safe play and ensure health.
Building a traffic culture will contribute to limiting traffic accidents and at the same time creating a civilized and friendly traffic environment and above all, contributing to building a labor safety culture in the Company.
To feel more deeply about the importance of traffic safety, let’s see:

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