FACTORY VISIT
Learning outcomes
At the end of the visit, the student will be expected to:
- Conduct a walk through survey
- Identify the occupational hazards in the factory visited
- Describe health, safety and welfare measures implemented in the factory visited and critically review these measures
- Describe the notification process for occupational accidents and registers maintained to document occupational accidents
- Describe the procedures available for compensation of workers
- Make recommendations to improve occupational health in the factory visited
- Conduct a health promotion programme among the workers
- Describe the role of occupational health services in the provision of primary health care
Content areas
- Organisation of the factory and the workforce
- Materials used and the articles produced
- Health hazards related to the materials, the process and the setting
- Health problems of the workforce
- Health, safety and welfare measures already in place
- Notification of occupational accidents and registers maintained
- Benefits for workers including compensation
- Recommendations for improving occupational health
- Learning activity: Provide health promotion to factory workers
RECOMMENDED READING MATERIAL
- Herath HMSSD 1990, 'Occupational health : An Introductory Course for Healthcare Workers', pp 59-64, 85 – 95and122-130 , Ministry of Health, Colombo, Sri Lanka.