General concepts: definition and aims of the discipline; occupational risks and hazards; accident at work, occupational disease, work-related disease; occupational anamnesis; industrial hygiene (technical prevention and environmental monitoring): sanitary survelillance, biomonitoring and biomarkers; medical legal issues.
Physical agents: microclimate and thermal factors; baropathies; noise; vibration; electricity; radiation (ionizing and non ionizing); Work-related Musculo-Skeletal Disorders (WMSDs).
Occupational toxicology: toxic gases (carbon monoxide, cyanides, arsine); metals (lead, mercury, chromium, cadmium); solvents (general concepts, n-hexane, benzene, carbon disulfide); pesticides (general concepts, organophosphates); dusts and fibres (pneumoconioses).
Occupational allergology: diagnostics (prick test, patch test, RAST, bronchoprovocation testing); main diseases (dermopathies, rhinitis, bronchial asthma, extrinsic allergic alveolitis).
Biological risk: general concepts; blood-borne pathogens; air-borne pathogens; zoonoses.
Occupational cancer: general concepts; malignant mesothelioma.
Work-related stress: general concepts; stress-related psychopathological disorders; burn-out; mobbing.
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