MODULE 3: OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE & TOXICOLOGY I - CONTENTS

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SECTION 1:

Introduction to Occupational Medicine and Toxicology

TOX1.1: Introduction to Occupational Medicine
TOX1.2: Uses of Toxicology
TOX1.3: Definitions
TOX1.4: History of Toxicology
TOX1.5: Axioms of Toxicology
TOX1.6: Assessment of Toxicity
TOX1.7: Toxicokinetics I
TOX1.8: Toxicokinetics II
 TOX1.9: Toxicodynamics
TOX1.10: Classification of Toxicity
SECTION 2:

Classification of Hazardous Substances

TOX 2.1:  Approach to classifying chemcals
TOX 2.2: Making sense of chemicals
TOX 2.3: Classification systems
SECTION 3:

Linking chemical exposures and health effects

TOX3.1: Overview
TOX3.2: Factors Determining Hazard Potential
TOX3.3: Fate of Chemicals Entering the Body
TOX3.4: Mechanisms of Disease Causation
TOX3.5: Health Effects of Specific Body Systems
TOX3.6: Assessment and Monitoring of Exposure
TOX3.7: Advantages and Disadvantages of Biological Monitoring
TOX3.8: Interpreting Biological Monitoring Results
TOX3.9: Information Sources
SECTION 4:
Biological monitoring & Medical surveillance
TOX4.1: Introduction
TOX4.2: Leglislation and Monitoring
TOX4.3: Advantages and Pitfalls
TOX4.4: Examples of Monitoring
SECTION 5:

Approach to managing case problems in occupational medicine

TOX 5.1: An Approach To Managing Case Problems In Occupational Medicine (Group exercise)
SECTION 6:

HCS and GA regulations

TOX 6.1: Introduction to regulations
TOX 6.2: General Administrative Regulations
TOX 6.3: Hazardous Chemical Substances Regulations
SECTION 7:

Introduction to Compensation Legislation: The COID Act

TOX 7.1: Introduction
TOX 7.2: Implications of the Act
TOX 7.3: The compensation process
TOX 7.4: Exercise
SECTION 8:

Pesticides

TOX8.1: Introduction
TOX8.2: Overview of Pesticides and Health
TOX8.3: Pictures illustrating pesticide exposure hazards
TOX8.4: Handbook on Pesticide Monitoring
SECTION 9:

Solvents

TOX 9.1: Introduction
TOX 9.2: Solvent effects
SECTION 10:

Toxic gases

 
TOX 10.1: Overview
TOX 10.2: General characteristics of toxic gases:
TOX 10.3: Specific toxic gases
SECTION 11:

Lead

TOX11.1: Introduction to Lead in the context of toxic metals
TOX11.2: Toxic Metals
TOX11.3: Why learn about lead?
TOX11.4:  Why learn about lead (continued)?
TOX11.5:  Lead regulations exercise
SECTION 12:

Other Heavy Metals

TOX12.1: Overview
TOX12.2: Mercury
TOX12.3: Arsenic
SECTION 13:

Occupational Cancers

 
TOX13.1: Introduction
TOX13.2: Stages of Carcinogenicity - Initiation
TOX13.3: Stages of Carcinogenicity - Promotion and Progression
TOX13.4: Tests for Carcinogenicity and Mutagenicity
TOX13.5: Carcinogen Exposure Assessment
TOX13.6: International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Classification of Cancers
TOX13.7: Epidemiological Issues in Occupational Cancers
TOX13.8: Cancer prevention
TOX13.9: Laryngeal Cancer - A Case Study
SECTION 14:

Renal disease

TOX 14.1: Introduction
TOX 14.2: Acute and Chronic disease
TOX 14.3: A South African study
TOX 14.4: Case study in renal failure
SECTION 15:

The Liver and Occupational Haematology

TOX 15.1:Objectives and Activities
TOX 15.2: Note On Liver And Blood In Relation To Occupational Hazards
SECTION 16: Occupational neurological disease TOX 16.1: ILO Encyclopaedia - Nervous system and occupational health
TOX 16.5: Slideshow on Neurotoxicity in Occupational Health
SECTION 17:
Organic Solvent encephalopathy
TOX17.1: Organic solvent encephalopathy  
SECTION 18:

Reproductive health disorders and the workplace

TOX18.1: Objectives and activities
TOX18.2: Reproductive Health Hazards
TOX18.3:Reproductive Health Hazards (Continued)
TOX18.4:Endocrine disruptors
TOX18.5: Reproductive Health Assessment
TOX18.6: Reproductive Risk Assessment and Reproductive Risk Communication
TOX18.7: Risk Management
SECTION 19: Case study in
Dioxin Toxicity
TOX19.1: Introduction to Dioxin
TOX19.2: Dioxin Toxicity Case Histories
TOX19.3: Dioxin Case Study

SECTION 20: Heavy Metal

Toxicity

TOX 20.0: Introduction
TOX 20.1: Introduction
TOX 20.2: Introduction (Continued)
TOX 20.3: Biochemical Effects of Lead Poisoning
TOX 20.4: Organic Lead
TOX 20.5: Arsenic
TOX 20.6: Mercury - Production and Uses & Physical and chemical properties
TOX 20.7: Mercury - Metabolism
TOX 20.8: Mercury - Biological monitoring
TOX 20.9: Mercury - Clinical toxicity
TOX 20.10: Mercury - Treatment

SECTION 21: GENERAL PRINCIPLES

TOX 21.1: Introduction
TOX 21.2: Dose-Response Relationships
TOX 21.3: Toxicokinetics
TOX 21.4: Absorption
TOX 21.5: Distribution
TOX 21.6: Excretion

SECTION 22: Hazard and Risk Communication

TOX 22.1: Overview


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