Cancer is not always like thats sha.
Some risks are preventable — including risks created or poorly controlled at work.
From my experience in occupational health, workplace hazards and patient safety, one concern remains: labour conversations often focus heavily on wages, while workers’ health, safety and wellbeing receive far less attention.
A salary increase is important. But higher pay cannot compensate for a workplace that is silently damaging your lungs, kidneys, skin, hearing, mental wellbeing or increasing long-term cancer risk.
Some jobs carry higher exposure risks because of what workers repeatedly inhale, touch or work around:
Construction workers — asbestos, silica dust, welding fumes
Miners and quarry workers — silica, radon, coal dust, heavy metals
Welders and metal workers — welding fumes, chromium, nickel
Mechanics and transport workers — diesel exhaust, hydrocarbons, solvents
Petrol station/refinery workers — benzene and petroleum-related chemicals
Factory/chemical workers — solvents, aromatic amines, heavy metals
Healthcare workers — ionising radiation, certain chemicals and hazardous drugs
Farmers/agricultural workers — pesticides, herbicides and prolonged UV exposure
Outdoor workers — excessive ultraviolet radiation
Shipyard/insulation workers — asbestos.
WHO, IARC and occupational-health evidence have linked several of these exposures with increased cancer risk.
But there is an even wider issue: workplace exposure can collide with existing health conditions.
A worker may already be living with hypertension, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease, kidney disease or another condition. Add prolonged exposure to carcinogens, dust, fumes, radiation, heat, chemicals, smoking or air pollution, and the combined burden can worsen illness, create comorbidity, complicate treatment and increase the risk of severe outcomes.
And the impact may not stop with the worker.
I have seen situations where children and other family members are exposed indirectly through what parents bring home from work — contaminated clothing, dust, fibres or chemicals. This “take-home exposure” is a real occupational-health concern and shows why workplace safety is also a family and community health issue.
The economic cost is also enormous.
Poor occupational safety reduces productivity through absenteeism, presenteeism, disability, early retirement and premature death.
In public-health terms, it increases DALYs — Disability-Adjusted Life Years lost, while reducing QALYs — Quality-Adjusted Life Years lived in good health.
So this is not only about disease.
It is about lost years of healthy life.
Lost productivity.
Lost family income.
Lost national economic output.
That is why both unsafe conditions and unsafe acts must be addressed.
Employers — government or private — should identify hazards, assess risks and apply the hierarchy of controls:
Eliminate → Substitute → Engineering controls → Administrative controls → PPE → Health surveillance.
Workers must follow safety procedures, use protective equipment correctly, report hazards and near misses, attend occupational-health checks and stop normalising unsafe practices.
Government should strengthen inspection, exposure monitoring, occupational-disease surveillance and enforcement.
— Olabanji Mikail
Patient Safety & Healthcare Quality Consultant
Member, WHO Global Patient Safety Network
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I came across this video late last year and posted it here on X asking to connect with like minds. I’m proud to say we started this in January, we got a lawyer, we are registered, got started and we are still here till now, even had our first physical hangout last weekend.
The group comprises of people from different fields….looking forward to see how this will grow and the lessons to be learnt from it🤭 I’m in my early 20s so I’m in that phase of experimenting and trying my hands on things
Great, but this is one of the issues with practicing medicine in countries like this Nigeria, There’s something called mechanical ventilator that would have done this work he just spent 6 hrs doing.
This is the shege the poor health care in Nigeria puts us through.
Patients don’t even know what we pass through to just ensure things work a bit.
It’s someone giving you palm oil and water alone to cook a soup, what we’re given to work with as medical personnels in Nigeria is far worse.
Your disdain for single mothers and divorcees is very evident, I suspected but your Tweet has confirmed it.
Alhamdulillah I am all the 2 you hate so much but Alhamdulillah again I am much more than that too.
As a Muslim Brother will still respect your sane post about islamic issues you can be happy about without your prejudice screaming right out .
It's the second time you've done this on my posts Insha Allah you won't have the third opportunity.
I can only wish you the best going forward, Your Kind are the worst for women in difficult situations and circumstances and i sincerely hope many more women can see through your stinky patriarchy dressed in intellectualism.
This is hoping ladies won't end up in more problems as a result of ' advice ' they will continue to read from you.
No where in the original post was any reference to Divorcee and Single Mothers but as always they have to be scapr goated yet again.
My dear Single mothers and Divorced Ladies , you have not committed any crime by choosing to walk away if you did so but I know many of you were unjustly made single mothers by His Kind, So many of you in my DM especially from so called Alfas and Muslim Brothers like Him that have bamboozled you with faux intelligence and intellectualism, Please continue to work hard, make money , Pray Harder that Allah safe you from His kind and Hold on to God.
Allah has not forsaken you because you are a single mother or divorced. No.He hasn't, He is only teaching you a new leason that can equally be useful to your growth.
I sincerely pray and hope you can be bold enough to choose yourselves, in situations that threaten your peace, sanity , growth and life without being too overly conscious of the societal expectations of your presumed or imagined failure from people like Him.
In all I wish us all the best , God is always just
Call for help.
My mum was hit with a stroke in may 2024.
Since then our lives haven't remained the same. My family have spent all our savings yet her condition hasn't changed.
She has severe BP challenge, she has diabetes. Which has gone on to take a toll on her kidneys.
Bandits kidnapped a medical doctor. They tied him up, set up fire, grabbed his hand and put it inside the burning fire. Everyday, they burn a portion of his hand while he watched & screamed of severe pain. They kept burning the hand daily until they reached his shoulder. They then collected 15 million naira ransom and still killed him. These are the animals government wants to forgive & reward with free houses.
Abortion is healthcare. This poor baby was raped by a Nigerian man and still had to carry this baby to term in her condition. The whole system failed her. This is terrible.
Rain has been falling heavily and this is their 42ND DAY as captives of terrorists!! My heart is hurt!! Is this how we will keep counting days???? Just like that???😭😭😭
Please, let's help this brother get his family home, from the hospital.
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No amount is too small and none is too much. Thank you
This is now their 40th Day as prisoners and hostages of terrorists. 40 Days of Cold nights, no change of clothes, poor physical care, emotional trauma, abuse and constant fear! Ah!!😭😭😭. God!!!!
This is soul sinking!!! 40 DAYS!!!
This is now their 33rd night in the jungle as captives of terrorists!! 33 nights!!! Toddlers!!! Children!! Innocent teachers who just went to school! Ah!! 😭😭😭
I hope he used the time to get other degrees or get a decent job. What he could have achieved in 15 years even with a 2:2 surely outweighs 20m in 2022.
“Bandits usually feed us to be strong. Then they take turns having sex with us everyday. Sometimes they can assign one girl to be pleasing 3 or 4 men daily..
— Kidnapping survivor narrates her experiences in a bandit camp [Hausa]