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Occupational Health in Costa Rica..

Occupational health-governing bodies in the country

v Board of occupational health

Is a technical body on health and safety at work, attached to the Ministry of labour and Social Security and that since its creation by the law 6727 in 1982, has promoted the health of workers in all workplaces of Costa Rica.

· Ministry of labour

The Ministry of labour and Social Security, has origin in the enactment of Decree Law No. 33 of June of 1928, Secretary of labor, whose main purpose was the creation of the labour code created. However, it was during the administration of Dr. Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia, when consolidated this idea, specifically the 15 September 1943, when it entered into force the labour code, which formalized the existence of the Secretariat of labour and Social Welfare.

v Ministry of health

The Ministry of health is a decentralized institution articulated internally coherent in its response capacity, with a culture characterized by the orientation to results and accountability, with officials duly qualified, proactive and appropriate for their role. For his style of leadership, its technical capacity and achieved improvements in the health status of the population, it is an institution with high credibility nationally and internationally, that the population perceives as the guarantor of their health and social stakeholders and direct clients of the rectory feel as his ally.

v INS

31 January 1925 published law No. 53 on industrial accidents and on August 20, 1926 opened the Department worker, today Department of occupational hazards, responsible for administering this Act.

· Costa Rican Social Security

The CCSS provides comprehensive health services to the individual, the family and the community and give the protection of economic, social and pension, in accordance with the legislation in force and to the Costa Rican population.

                                                                          

Classification of occupational health risks:

•  Risks are chemical, in this: gases, vapors, mist and smoke.
• Physical hazards in this is it are: noise, lighting, temperature, radiation and vibration.
• And finally the biological risks in this found; bacteria, viruses, fungi, riketsia and protozoa.

                                                                        

Something subareas that interact with occupational health

• Occupational medicine
• Occupational hyniene
• Publlic health
• Safety engineering
• Industrial engineering
• Chemistry
• Health physics
• Ergonomics and occupational health psycology

                                                                     

Pictures about Occupatinal Health..

These images  graphically demostrates the funtion of occupational health and it is important.

                                               

Why is it important occupational health?

Services entrusted with essentially preventive funtions and responsible for advising the employer, the workers and their representatives in the undertaking  on  the requirements for establishing and maintaining a safe and healthy working.

                                                     

What is occupational health?

Is the promotion and maint nanceof the highest degree of physical, mental and social well_being of workers in all occupation by preventing departures from health, contrilling risk and the adapttion of work to people, and people to their jobs.