What is Occupational Health?

Occupational Health, also referred to as Occupational Medicine or simply “Occ Med,” is a branch of preventive medicine that focuses on the interrelationship between the work (the job tasks including physical and cognitive demands), the worker (including their physical, psychological, and medical status, and functional abilities), and the workplace (including work conditions [e.g., temperature, environment], workplace hazards [e.g., noise, chemicals]) and the impact they have on one another.