Lesson 1 Introduction

Human’s life is permanently connected with facing different kind of circumstances that can have some kind of influence on individual’s health.
That impact can be either positive, neutral or negative.
This happens from the very beginning of your existence to the end, in your everyday life, in leisure time, at school, and at work.
The work is the area of life that we are going to take into consideration in this this course.
Leading active working life, being an economically active person, brings you specific benefits (e.g. for economy of your household, allows you to fulfil your ambitions and goals, have positive impact on your metal health), but on the other hand it is inevitably related with a certain level of threat to your health.
In this module we are going to discuss what a health threat and occupational risk are and how you can identify them.