The booklet provides a number of tips to help avoiding skin problems in daily life. It also indicates what occupations have particularly high risks of developing skin problems.
The brochure describes hand eczema as a frequent occupational disease that affects younger people in particular. Jobs with frequent needs of washing hands, wearing gloves or cominge into contact with food and detergents are stressful to the skin.
This guide supports the user to find and select quickly all types personal protective equipment for the daily work. It is specific for the following profssions: construction work, cleaning services, dry-cleaning and washing, security services, cooking, hair dressing and beauty treatment.
The leaflet shows a hand with noteble skin eczema; it asks, could it have been caused by sulphuric acid, fireworks or handling cucumber in the kitchen? The leaflet concerns eczema, which can cause itching, burning, blistering and sores. Moreover, if it develops into chronic eczema, it may be debilitating. The leaflet describes how to avoid developing sensitivity and eczema in the kitchen.
This booklet describes pictorially, with minimal text, the 10 most important safety tips for cleaning work. It is also available in Turkish. It covers dangerous substances as well as other hazards.
This booklet gives 10 tips on working with hazardous chemicals. Each tip is described briefly and illustrated pictorially. The tips cover the principles of prevention and how to make sure that working with hazardous chemicals is safe and secure.
The slide show explains the various potentially critical activities and situations where hazardous chemicals are used in a dairy factory. This includes storage, transport and various applications of e.g. gases or disinfectants. It is explained how accidents and health damage of workers can be prevented.
The presentation is intended for use in the management of occupational safety and health and in MIA's work environment education. The pdf is interactive and allows the user to jump directly to the area of interest.
This leaflet, illustrated with photos, provides basic information on the precautions that should be taken as regards moulds encountered during building and renovation work. Some species excrete toxic fungal spores and may cause health problems, but it is very difficult to tell which are harmful by the naked eye.
Thousands of children, some as young as eight years old, risk serious injury and even death from working in small-scale gold mines in Tanzania.
The poster demonstrates how to safely handle gas cylinders, with each demonstrating the dark side (unsafe handling) and the bright side (safe handling). This poster reminds workers to secure gas cylinders when work is interrupted.
The poster is one in a series of five posters produced by the statutory accident insurance association of raw materials and the chemical industry (BG RCI).
The short video demonstrates correct hand disinfection procedures. It highlights that hand disinfection takes only 30 seconds. Over 30 seconds of music by Treehouse, several healthcare staff are seen disinfecting their hands.