Prevention of skin diseases

Family holidays are great fun for everyone. For mum and dad, it’s a chance to put work behind you for a while and spend some meaningful time with the people who matter most in your life. For kids, a trip away offers the chance to explore new horizons, as they make memories which will stay with them forever.

Only when it is warm is there a risk for the skin? Incorrect. In fact, the intensity of ultraviolet radiation in our latitudes increases significantly as early as spring. This increases the risk of sunburn - and the associated skin damage that can lead to cancer.

The sun is an important health factor because it helps the body to form vitamin D, ensures a healthy sleep-wake cycle and regulates our body temperature. It gives energy and puts you in a good mood.

A set of preventive measures (technical, organizational, educational and other) with the aim of preventing occupational accidents, occupational diseases and other occupational health damage or reducing them to a minimum.

Formaldehyde is one of the most important basic chemical substances in industry and medicine. In medical areas such as pathology, human and veterinary anatomy, formaldehyde is used, among other things, for the fixation, preservation and storage of human or animal tissue or body donations due to its property of rapidly denaturing proteins and bringing about uniform tissue hardening.

Using the ever-popular Napo character, EU-OSHA (the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work), together with the Napo Consortium, has devised a series of occupational safety and health (OSH) lessons for teachers, aimed at introducing safety and health topics to primary school students in an educational, yet fun and imaginative way using Napo video clips.

A comic character for safety and health

Upsi is a comic character, created by the Accident Insurance Berlin ...

"Jugend will sich erleben" (Youth wants self-experience) is a project by German Social Accident Insurance (DGUV) ...

Education materials for vocational training

"An apprenticeship that fits" for four professional groups The BGW offers you materials that support you in your lessons. Topics include first aid, skin protection, hand hygiene and needlestick injuries. The BGW has put together brochures for the following apprenticeships: medical assistants, veterinary assistants, dental assistants and hairdressers.

Practical tools with regard to ergonomics and skin prevention were developed for hairdressers, such as a desk research with good practices from 17 countries, an instruction video, 2 manuals with background information for teachers (ergonomics and preventing skin complaints), visually supporting material, namelijk ‘take care of yourself’ sheets with some main concerns.

This Napo movie deals with dangers for your skin at work, with skin diseases and skin problems caused by workplace situations. „Which are the most important 2 square meters of you life?“ Napo, the 3d computer animated character gives the answer to this question: „Your skin!“.

Materials for initial vocational education and training to increase awareness of young workers for OSH. Several DVDs, awards activities and an internet portal. ...

215 young hairdressers suffering from occupational skin diseases (OSD) have attended a 6-month combined dermatological and educational prevention program ...

The government (Ministry of Social Affairs), employers and employees representatives agreed that they wanted to see a major reduction in the number of new cases of dermatitis among hairdressers ...

Occupational skin diseases are among the most common occupational diseases reported.

The Toolkit is a free resource. It brings together information, guidance, fact sheets, case studies, training materials, presentations and more to help you tackle occupational health problems.

This website provides information and training on hand saftey, using hand tools and gloves. Hand injuries including cuts, strained muscles and tendons, damaged nerves, skin disorders, and burns can impact the quality of work, productivity – and even end careers.

Melanoma is among the deadliest of skin cancers, and it’s more common among people with light skin. In fact, researchers say the incidence of melanoma among Black people is about 10 percent of that in white people.

Two posters featuring UPSI, the comic character of the Accident Insurance Berlin, dealing with sun- and water-related dangers for children...