Lesson 1 Introduction

Exposure to occupational risk factors may obviously pose threat to your health. The threat that may remain only a certain level of risk of acquiring health deficit, or in unfavourable circumstances, may result in a real and visible harm to your organism.
There is probably a common misconception where accidents and injuries are understood similarly, and people consider them being the same thing. Whereas there is a difference between these two terms. In the next topic of this unit you will find exactly how they should be understood.
Additionally, you will learn a little about occupational diseases that you may suffer from being the result of your work as a cleaner while being exposed to specific risk factors.