Toxicology - Absorption, Distribution, and Storage of Chemicals

Toxicology
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Toxicology 1
Part 1
A. 1
A: Health is a person’s mental and physical status which is free from any illness and injury. It is
a wellbeing state of people.
B: Hygiene is a practice or a condition contributing to preventing illness and disease through
maintaining cleanness and health.
C: Safety is a state of being protected from any hazardous and risk
D: Occupational Hygiene is a practice of recognizing and confirmation hazardous and illness
free working place (Felman, 2017).
A. 2
Occupation safety provides protection from occupational hazardous whereas occupational health
involves the overall wellbeing of employees. An inadequate alarming or warning system is an
example of an unsafe workplace condition and the watery floor is an example of a work setting
with health hazard (WHO, 2018).
A. 3
CRBOH stands for The Canadian Registration Board of Occupational Hygienists, this ensures
hygiene technology and sets the standards for Occupational Hygienists professionals in Canada.
BCRSP is The Board of Canadian Registered Safety Professionals which ensures occupational
health and safety by providing certification to hand safety professionals in the country
(CRBOH, 2019).
A.4
Occupational diseases caused by exposure to agents arising from work activities: Diseases
caused by physical agents which are hearing impairment and disorder in Joints and bones.

Toxicology 2
Occupational diseases by target organ systems: Respiratory diseases such as Bronchitis and
Asthma.
Occupational Cancers: Cancer caused by the following agents such as Hepatitis B virus (HBV)
and hepatitis C virus (HCV) (ILO, 2010).
A5:
 Physical hazards: physical injury or illness like tennis elbow and visionary losses.
 Chemical hazards: fire and chemical explosions, burning or skin allergy.
 Biological hazards: illness, viruses, and bacteria
 Radiological hazards: injuries and illness, cancers and nervous disturbance
 Ergonomic hazards: illness occurs with standing and standing position, lower back pain
and chronic eye strain (Breeding, 2011).
A6:
 Higher exposure to radiation like working at thermal plants or radiologists.
 Type of jobs like mining and construction industry.
 A working industry like the Chemical industry (WHO, 2020).
A7:
Benzene exposure in a refinery industry takes place four major routes such as oral exposure,
Inhalation Exposure, Dermal Exposure and other routs like fasted animals. Inhalation Exposure
and dermal Exposure are high levels of exposure routs of Benzene (Tuomi, Veijalainen, &
Santonen, 2018).
A8:
There are three levels of occupational exposure effects on the human body. The first level is an
acceptable level of hazardous exposure like workplace air, a medical level which may affects