Clean, Safe and Healthy Environment: From Home to Workplace
Journal Title: International Journal of Preventive, Curative & Community Medicine - Year 2017, Vol 3, Issue 1
Abstract
Occupational and environmental health related problems are found in every workstation and country. Still the budget allocation for prevention and control of such diseases is poor. Simple measures such as cleanliness, personal protection can be adopted by all workers and employers can ensure its implementation. In a series of organizing conferences and workshops for last 5 years, seven preconference workshops and an international conference with theme of clean, safe and healthy environment-from home to workplace was organized in 2016 with the objective of increasing the skills among occupational health professionals. More than 129 research papers were presented by the young scholars and doctors. Proceedings of the conference and workshops have been given in the present article. 1
Authors and Affiliations
Dr. Jugal Kishore
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