Occupational hazard in Malaysian traffic police: special focus on air pollutants.

Autor:	Mohamad Jamil PAS; Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia., Karuppiah K; Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia., Rasdi I; Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia., How V; Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia., Mohd Tamrin SB; Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia., Mani KKC; Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.; Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia,Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia., Sambasivam S; Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia., Naeini HS; Department of Industrial Engineering Design, School of Architecture and Environmental Design, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran., Mohammad Yusof NAD; Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia., Hashim NM; Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Reviews on environmental health [Rev Environ Health] 2021 Feb 17; Vol. 36 (2), pp. 167-176. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Feb 17 (Print Publication: 2021).
DOI:	10.1515/reveh-2020-0107
Abstrakt:	This paper provides a specific deliberation on occupational hazards confronted daily by Malaysian Traffic Police. Traffic police is a high-risk occupation that involves a wide range of tasks and, indirectly, faced with an equally wide variety of hazards at work namely, physical, biological, psychosocial, chemical, and ergonomic hazards. Thereupon, occupational injuries, diseases, and even death are common in the field. The objective of this paper is to collate and explain the major hazards of working as Malaysian traffic police especially in Point Duty Unit, their health effects, and control measures. There are many ways in which these hazards can be minimised by ensuring that sufficient safety measures are taken such as a wireless outdoor individual exposure indicator system for the traffic police. By having this system, air monitoring among traffic police may potentially be easier and accurate. Other methods of mitigating these unfortunate events are incorporated and addressed in this paper according to the duty and needs of traffic police. (© 2021 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston.)
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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