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What is coronavirus? 

What is coronavirus? 

Covid-19 is a respiratory illness caused by a novel coronavirus (SARS coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2)) that can affect the lungs and airways. Symptoms include a fever, shortness of breath, breathing difficulties, muscle pain, tiredness, dry cough, dyspnoea (laboured breathing), sore throat, diarrhoea, anosmia (loss of smell), dysgeusia (loss of taste), conjunctival hyperaemia (sore/bloodshot/dry eyes). As of 11 March…

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Food safety

Key facts Access to sufficient amounts of safe and nutritious food is key to sustaining life and promoting good health. Unsafe food containing harmful bacteria, viruses, parasites or chemical substances, causes more than 200 diseases – ranging from diarrhoea to cancers. An estimated 600 million – almost 1 in 10 people in the world –…

Purposeful Action for Change

Purposeful Action for Change

Over the past few months, voices around our nation and around the world have called for an end to systemic racism, and they have placed significant focus on the need for social justice and equity. We agree that the impact of inequities on personal and professional lives is immeasurable and unacceptable. To help overcome these…

Online training evolves to improve businesses’ workplace health and well being

Online training evolves to improve businesses’ workplace health and well being

One major question for organisations dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic was how do you maintain safe, healthy, effective operations and develop your people without face-to-face training sessions? Collaborative work by Make USA, the manufacturers’ organisation, Fujitsu USA and ASOSH has been delivering new learning experiences online to help firms sustain business continuity through the coronavirus…

COVID-19: Occupational Health

COVID-19: Occupational Health

The protection of health workers is one of the priorities for the response to COVID19 outbreaks. Occupational health services in health care facilities have an important role for protecting health workers and ensuring the business continuity of health care services CORONAVIRUS DISEASE (COVID-19) OUTBREAK: RIGHTS, ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF HEALTH WORKERS, INCLUDING KEY CONSIDERATIONS FOR…