Module 4: Hazard Identification

It is the systematic assessment of employees exposed or potentially exposed to occupational hazards. This assessment monitors individuals for adverse health effects and determines the effectiveness of exposure prevention strategies.

• Work Environmental monitoring

• Biological monitoring

• Environmental surveillance

• Medical surveillance

The main purpose of medical surveillance is

• Determine the magnitude of a harmful environmental agent

• Physically check the environment through measurement

• Predict harmfulness of new facilities, raw materials, production processes, and working methods

• Prevention and early detection of a health-related condition

The conduct of medical surveillance is essential since

• Man is a complex being and uptake to hazard may defer from one person to another

• Level of hazard is fixed

• New process does not have an effect to medical surveillance

• Organizational change does not affect the entire production process

The first step in medical surveillance is the hazard and exposure assessment. This includes the evaluation of the chemical use, process involved, exposure pathways, number of members involved and severity of the effect

• True

• False

Accidents/illnesses record must be reported to the DOLE Regional Office bi annual with the accident/illness trends (surveillance)

• True

• False