Health and Safe Work (HSW)

To maintain health, human live need health foods and beverages, cloths, competent residence for live, available reach health service and available work place that matching with physical and ability.

Other side the workplace depends on how to work, work process, kind of raw materials and equipments which can bother the health work, like:

• Bad environmental ventilation causes the worker feel hot or bronchi trouble, especially when on dusty room.
• Unfavorable illumination can cause eyesight trouble.
• Tool vibration on hold can cause Raynaud Syndrome.
• Noise can cause permanent deaf or remain to.
• Hot atmosphere can cause tired quickly even spastic and stroke if on high heat.
• Cool atmosphere can cause to feel stiff, even coagulation of legs and hands if residing in very old cool room very time.
• Chemicals depend on the kind and exhaust long can cause problem to human body.
• Dust, depend on the kind of dust can cause allergy, emphysema and trouble of other body organ.
• Pesticide depend on type, sum up and exhaust long can cause poisoned.

One side human being have to work for live on, on the other side working to own the risk or threat for health and laboring human being safety. Therefore, the important matter how effort to prevent or minimize the risk.

Health influence the work capacities or work ability of somebody, on the contrary a work can influence the health and working safety, because work represent the physical burden and also bounce for worker which is depend on its work type. Indisposed environment and unhealthy work place represent the additional burden for worker. On this matter we can use Five S for conditioning our work place.

Using Topical Medicine

Medicine type directly is smeared in the organ that needs it. There are four kind of topical medicine.

Skin Medicine
Medicine for skin can be formed in cream, ointment, liquid or transdermal glued. There are two rules on using this medicine:

• Using as the guideline to avoid excess absorption into the blood that can cause systemic side effect. Some of skin medicine should thin smear above the skin, but other kind of medicine must be used with message.
• Wash your hands after smear the medicine to avoid any reaction with fingers skin or can contact with eyes or mouth.

Using Ointment or Cream

• Wash your hands
• Clean organ will be smeared.
• Smear medicine thinly on the organ that need.
• Level the medicine except if forbidden to level.

Using Transdermal Glue

This kind of medicine should be glued on the skin. Medicine inside adhesive slowly enter to the skin. There are four regulation on using this medicine:

1. Choose the part of organ with no body hair, no wound, just recover or inflamed.
2. Clean organ with water.
3. Clean a glued medicine on that organ and change with new one but in other place.
4. Don't cut the adhesive to adjust the dosage.

Other kind medicine may called as Alternative Medicine.

Medicine Expired

When the medicine should be throwing away?

Medicine with doctor certificate must be throwing away after the dieses have recovered. The medicine remaining is may not be kept to be used in other time or used for other persons. Every medicine can have any other effect for different person except antibiotic medicine must drink until finished even the diseases have recovered.

Medicines without doctor certificate easily gets in the market and sometime intentionally keep for our stock, but should be remembered that those medicine have an expired date. The medicine also can change on stored. The medicine must be throwing away when:

1. Have expired as on the label

2. No expired date label and have kept for long time i.e. one year.

3. The color/form/turbidity has changed.

4. The label has loose or not clear.

How do right use of medicine?

Medicine can use in many ways. For getting the maximum benefit you must understand how the right uses of such medicine. To avoid the wrong use of the medicine, read the guideline on using the medicine.

The form of Medicine

The medicine have many kind form, there are tree kind of medicine usually used, tablet, pill, capsule and liquid. If the form of the medicine like tablet is too big to swallow you can ask for other kind of medicine such as syrup form, because every medicine can be formed in a certain form.

The medicine also can be given in many ways, oral medicine, injection, suppository, peccary, and topical. This way of medicine given and how to use the certain type of medicine will be described in the next articles.

When stop drink medicine?

Medicine with doctor certificate.

All hard medicine use a special sign in a red circle with a black circle border this meant that to drink this medicine must use doctor certificate. If your doctor or pharmacist didn't tell you yet, ask according to the medicine such as:

1. How long the medicine must be drunk?

2. If there is any side effect, can we stop to drink?

3. If you feel better, can you stop to drink that medicine?

4. What will you do if the medicines have finished to drink?

5. What need to do if you forget to drink the medicine?

Those questions are very important to ask, because every medicine can have different answer. For example of pain subside medicine can be stopped if the pain have lost, but antibiotic medicine must be finished even you feel good after 2 days. If merge side effect when drink a medicine, you must stop to drink and consult with your doctor.

Medicine without doctor certificate.

The example of this medicine are medicine that contains a paracetamol used for stopped the painful and cold down. If after two days the cold keep unchanged or not down, as soon as consult to the doctor or other health service.

Remember! All of free medicine have function make disappear the diseases indication and medicine for minor diseases. So self medicine is only for several days, if the diseases indication is not stop as soon as consult to the doctor.

The medicine without doctor certificate are:

1. Free medicine with special sign, green circle sign with black circle border.

2. Limit free medicine, use special sign, blue circle sign with black circle border.

Note: Healthy is your unmeasured wealth along live.

Medicine Knowledge

Medicine is very strong chemical substance. Beside the benefit to human, medicine can make accident. So if you know about medicine and how to use correctly and safe you will have benefit from them. Actually many diseases can take care in home and use trade-free medicine.

There a several medicine than is forbidden for women on pregnant, and other kind of medicine is forbidden to drink together with other kind of medicine, because that medicine may have neutralize effect each other, or make stronger that any bad effect to our body.

Every medicine have different guidelines on how to drink. Example of the guidelines:

1. Drink every 6 hours or 8 hours this mean that medicine must be drink every 6 hours or 8 hours.

2. Tree times a day, this more flexible it's mean that you can drink in the morning, evening and night.

3. Drink after eat. This means that the medicine can drink while eating or as soon as after eaten.

4. Drink before eat, its mean that medicine can drink two hours after eat or one hour before eat.

5. Drink medicine when stomach empty, this means same with drink before eat.

How to Keep Medicine

Keep medicine in the right way make the medicine is not changed, because the changing of medicine can make the medicine useless to body or can danger to your body.

1. Keep medicine separate from food.

2. Keep medicine in origin bottle to avoid chemical changes, every medicine need different place in plastic bottle or glass bottle.

3. Avoid from sun, heat and humid (far from lamp, direct sun, kitchen or bath room)

4. Don't keep in refrigerator, except as the guidelines.

5. Don't keep many medicine in one place (bottle).

6. Keep medicine for drink separate with skin medicine (not for drink).

7. Keep medicine far away from children's reach.