Health Surveillance for Silica Dust

This report provides an overview of health surveillance measures for silica dust in the workplace. It discusses the identification of hazards, typical health effects, and recommendations for implementing health surveillance systems. The report also explores different frameworks and processes for monitoring and maintaining employee health and safety.

Health Surveillance for Silica Dust

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Identification of Hazards that May Occur in the work place.......................................................3
Typical Health.............................................................................................................................5
Framework for Health Surveillance Measures............................................................................8
Time Line for the Implementing Health Surveillance Measures and Process of Implementation
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Recommendations........................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Health surveillance is considered as a system health checks. These health checks are
required by laws which are developed for the employee who are exposed to various industrial
hazards that can harm their safety and security on the workplace. These health check or health
surveillance ca be used by the organization to maintain effective health care practices in the work
place to keep their employees safe from hazards (Kuklina and Goodman, 2018). This report is
providing brief of health impact that are caused by silica on the conveyor belts after rock
crushing. Various type of risks and hazards related in the workplace will be explained in the
report. Different health surveillance that can be used in the organization workplace will be
explained in the report. The framework of health surveillance system will be presented in the
report along with various processes that can be used to implement these health surveillance
measure systems in organization. A time line will be provided in the report that can help the
organization to execute with in the work place.
Identification of Hazards that May Occur in the work place
There are different hazards can occur on the work place that ca harm the employees who
are exposed to these hazards on the work place. There are various challenges can occur due to
the exposure to the silica dust that can affect the health and respiratory system of people. This is
major problem that is faced people are related to the medical issues. Some of the major
challenges that are faced by the people are- acute health impact, chronic health effect, cancer
health hazard, reproductive Hazard and long term goals. These goals can affect the health
stability of people. The main health issues that are caused by the Silica dust.
Acute Health Impact
There are different short term health impact on people who come to the exposure to the
silica Dust. These effects can be visible after the exposure to the silica duct in the organization.
The acute health effect is more critical when people come to frequent exposure to the Silica dust.
This continuous exposure can lead to serious lung disease which is known as Silicosis with
severe cough, shortness of breath. All these effects can be visible on the chest x ray (Concannon,
Herbst and Manley, 2019). This is serious disease that can affect the people who came direct
contact with silica dust in company work shop. Silicosis is known as occupational lung disease

which is caused by inhalation of crystallization of silica dust in the lungs of the people came to
direct exposure to the silica dust in work place. Some it can be misdiagnosed as tuberculosis or
pulmonary edema. This disease can take life of thousand people around the world.
Chronic Health Effect
Some of the impact of the chronic impact can occur after the exposure of silica duct. This
effect can be last for months and years. Once a person comes to the contact of silica dust present
in the air in factories and workshops can face these problem later in life. This can lead to many
problems like coughing, shortness of breath and pain in chest. This pain and shortness of breath
could be last for months and years. This can cause permanent damage to the lungs of people.
This is how there are many negative impact of Silica Dust to the people who came in contact
with the silica dust in factories of organization.
Cancer Health Hazard
This is one of the most severe impact of the exposure of the silica dust. In some of cases
the silica dust can act as carcinogens that can start the uncontrolled cell division in particular part
of body which is known as cancer (Patterson, Jabson and Bowen, 2017). This is one of the most
critical impact of silica dust on the people who came to the exposure to the silica dust in factories
that are working on processing products that produce Silica dust in production process. This is
how the continuous exposure to the silica dust. It is how silica dust can affect the people more
severely.
Long Term Goals
There are many long term impact of exposure to the silica dust. These long term impact
on people can cause different type of disability to people who were in contact and exposure to
the silica dust. These exposure can lead to different severe disease to the employees which are
known as silicosis. For the short term exposure silicosis can lead to severe lungs problems and
long term exposure to the silica dust can lead to serious case of silicosis that can lead to death.
This is how in some severe cases this can lead to more trouble to people. There are different
cases are there that can increases the chances of tuberculosis.

This is how there are different negative impact of silica exposure in the organization that
are working with raw material that can produce silica dust in production process. The minor and
small particles of the silica can reach to the lungs of the employees can cause many severe
disease and respiratory problems to the people. This is how the silica dust can lead to major
issues to the people in different manner. These can cause issues like breathing problems and
other issues like silicosis which are so painful and difficult for the people to handle (Salmon,
Schumacher and Höhle, 2016). These issues can affect personal and professional life of people in
different ways by affecting their health and ability to live healthy lifestyle.
Typical Health
Health Surveillance can be considered as activities that includes getter information
regarding the employees health in the business organization. These activities are consists of the
practices that can help the organization to provide better health standards to the employees who
are working in organization. All these standards are provided by the legal organization in order
to protect basic rights of the employees in with in the work place. There are some practices are
considered by the organization to provide better health standard to the employees. This duty of
the human resource department and management to improve the work processes and methods in
organization to effectively improve the health standards in organization. There are different
health surveillance systems can be used by the organization to provide better services to the
employees to offer better and effective health standards in organization. Some of the most
common systems that are used in the business organization are- Sentinel surveillance, periodic
population based survey, laboratory based survey and integrated disease surveillance and
response. These are maor tools that are used by the business organization to maintain the health
surveillance measures in organization (Rodríguez-Martínez, 2017). These surveillances are
explained as processes which are used to maintain and monitor effective health and safety
practices in organization.
Sentinel Surveillance
In the sentinel Health Measure Surveillance process various samples from the large
population are taken to perform the survey work. For the specific conditions and situations this is
one of the best effective process. It can provide better surveillance for the much larger or whole
population of the organization. As this system is applied in the organization it provides the

opportunity to the organization to utilise the limited resources of the organization with specific
process. This system is most effective to offer better monitoring for the health related issues in
flexible and quick way. This tool is most effective to found better solution to common health
related problems that are faced by the people. This is one of the best and effective process to find
common problems in large size organization (Chao and Sivaram 2018). For common health
related problems it is most effective process and for unknown and accidental health issues this
tool or system can not be mused in effective manner. This is how this system ca be used by the
organization to keep track on the diseases and health issues in employees which are common.
Periodic Population Based Survey
This tool can be used by the health surveillance of the population on the periodic manner.
These methods are more common and effective in order to keep the system or organization run
more effectively. In the monitoring process these tests are repetitively done by the specific team
in the organization to keep monitoring the health standards of the people in effective manner.
These is one of the most effective tool that is also used by the developed and developing
countries to monitor the health related standards of the population in effective manner. These
processes or system is reused in each five years to keep the data of the people who are required
to be monitored. By this process organization will be able to track the health standards of the
people in effective ways to full fill their rights that are related to the specific disease or general
health problems. In this process samples from the people are taken in order to track the health of
the people in effective manner. The sample size is used to consider in the process to provide
better over view to the organization in effective manner to get better solution to the health related
problems in the organization to the employees (Brenas, Shin and Shaban-Nejad, 2019). From the
perspective of the regular evaluation this is one of the most effective process. As the samples are
collected on the regular basis this method is more effective than the other processes. In the
severe cases this is most important for the organization to take samples in effective manner to get
better result with the health surveillance of the employees of organization. By this process
effective prediction for the future can be performed in effective manner to get better data of the
health of the employees to get better solutions. This how periodic population based survey can be
performed for the health surveillance measure of the organizational employees.
Laboratory Based Survey

This process of surveillance is used by the organization for the monitoring of the tools
that are infectious and can spread on much vast level. This model is developed by the
organization to get better surveillance of the health of the employees in the organization. These
process is used by the organization to effectively evaluate the health of people in organization.
mostly in this process food generated issues are evaluated in analysis process. There are four
different steps are there to analyse the health issues of employees. Each level is consists difficult
level in order to analyse or detect complex disease. The process of detection can help the
organization to detect the disease in the organization. This process can be used for both
evaluation of the food chain and activities of health surveillance process. By continuous
laboratory evaluation organization can effectively provide solution to the diseases that are faced
by the people in and work place of organization. As per the case study this is most effective
process to perform effective health surveillance of the employees. This is how it is one of the
best process to get better solution with infectious diseases. This process is more complex than
other process or systems that are used for the health surveillance in the business organization.
The laboratory based health surveillance process requires effective training and development
process of people who will be working on this system to ensure the effective surveillance of
health measure of people (Ungchusak, Heymann and Pollack, 2019). The process of data and
sample collection can help the organization to provide better opportunity to the organization to
provide better health surveillance system to the organization. This is how effective and precise
surveillance is possible with this system.
Integrated Disease Surveillance and response
This system was developed in Africa. Integrated Disease Surveillance and response
system integrate various infectious diseases, and various monitoring system in order to provide
better efficient surveillance in the organization to maintain effective health standards that can
help the organization to provide and maintain better health surveillance standards. The main
focus of this system is based on the integration of the data and monitoring to ensure and protect
rights of employees in organization related to the health and safety in the work place. This
process also includes the process that can be used to make available important resources that can
he lp th organization to maintain health measurement standard in organization. There are various
processes are included in this process (Liston, Sawchuck and Young, 2018). Some of the main

processes that are followed in this method are- identification of the people who are infected with
specific disease. Record keeping of the confirmed patient, analysis of data, testing of disease and
development of the proper frame work. This is how specific processes is used in the organization
to protect the health and safety related rights of people.
This is how various heath surveillance systems are used by the business organization to
evaluate the health related data in organization in order to protect health and safety of people on
the work place. For Example the organization can use this system to protect employees from all
type of health issues and other problems that are caused by the Silica Dust. This is how people
who are working in organization can be protected in order to protect their rights and maintain
ethical standard in organization. The health surveillance measure that are considered by the
organization can help the company to avoid health issues in their employees due to silica dust.
Framework for Health Surveillance Measures
There are some specific frameworks and activities are used by the organization to
implement and use health surveillance measures in organization to protect people from different
health issues and diseases. The frame work that is used by the organization can help them to
collect data in the effective way to maintain effective and healthy conditions in the organization.
There are various frame works are used by the organization for the specific type of health
surveillance work in organization. For example Surveillance and response conceptual framework
is used by the organization for the health surveillance process (Evenson, Wen and Furberg,
2017). There are some other frame works also used by the organization to provide better health
conditions and measures to the employees of the organization by collecting knowledge and data
from health surveillance process. For example there are some specific steps are used by the
business organization to maintain effective health surveillance processes and system in
organization. Some of the most effective steps that are involved in the health surveillance
process are as follows. There are various provisions are there which are mainly used by the
organization to provide better overview to the people in order to provide better health standards
to the people.
For example hazard mapping, provisions of guideline, medical teams are formed along
with team that can provide better health standards to the employees that can be protected by
various methods from diseases like Silicosis in work place of organization. initially all these

activities are performed by the organization to provide better health condition in the organization
to prevent the exposure of Silica Dust for employees and maintain regular health check ups to
prevent these people from disease like Silicosis. This is how it is the initial phase of the
framework that is implemented in organization to implement health surveillance measures in
organization. In the next step various monitoring and surveillance are implemented in the
organization to make the data and sample collection priority of organization. By this process
organization will be able to provide better measures to the organization to control the disease in
the initial level in employees due to minor or major exposure to silica dust in organization. The
data that was collected in the past is used by the organization to develop new measures to make
the health surveillance system more effective and suitable for organization. This is how these
frame works are used to maintain health surveillance in organization for the prevention of many
disease that could occur in people who lives in organization.
Time Line for the Implementing Health Surveillance Measures and Process of Implementation
There are some specific steps are involved in the implementation of the health
surveillance process in organization. These steps can help the organization maintain effective
health measures and standards in organization. For the implementation of the health surveillance
process in organization these steps are used by the organization generate larger benefits from
organization. The common processes or steps that are involved in the implementation of the
health surveillance process in organization are- reporting, data accumulation, data analysis,
judgement and actions. This is how these steps are involved in the health measure surveillance
process that is used by the organization. The reporting is consists of keeping record of historical
data of the organization related to the health issues in organization.
These process can help the organization to develop specific processes that can help them
to prevent the severe disease in organizational employees. The data collection process is consists
of processes that includes the collection of data from thw employees base to keep record of their
health condition to plan better standards in organization to prevent the exposure of the silica dust
in people. Collected data is analysed in the data collection process. This processes can help the
organization to maintain effective health standards in organization. After the data collection
process specific health measures are implemented in the organization to take effective steps to
prevent major problems for the employees of organization.

Recommendations
There are different processes can be implemented in the organization to maintain
effective health standards in organization. Some the technologies like which are consists of self
learning process can be used in the organization to conduct the risky work in organization. This
is how better health standards can be implemented in the organization to provide better work
conditions to the employees.
CONCLUSION
This report is concluding the importance of the health surveillance process for the
business organization that includes the risk of the exposure of silica dust to the employees. These
is how these processes can be used by the organization to maintain effective health measures in
organization. Various health surveillance processes and systems that can be used in the
organization can be used to maintain effective health in the organization. the frame work that can
be used to implement health surveillance process in organization also has been studied in the
report.

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