Information and Occupational Health Technologies
Introduction
Today we can say that, virtually any aspect of everyday life, has undergone a change driven by the dissemination in the use and access of new technologies, also has great importance in the workplace, they are responsible for design, development,Promotion, maintenance and administration of information through computer and communication systems and there is a relationship between ICTs and occupational health that helps the development of this profession.
Definition of Technology: It is the set of technical knowledge, scientifically ordered, that allow to design and create goods and services that facilitate adaptation to the environment and meet both the essential needs and the desires of humanity.
Definition of information: Information is constituted by a group of data already supervised and ordered, which serve to build a message based on a certain phenomenon or entity. Information allows solving problems and making decisions, since its rational use is the basis of knowledge.
Communication definition: It is the process by which information from one entity can be transmitted to another, altering the state of knowledge of the receiving entity. Telecommunication, or telecommunications are the study and application of the technique that designs systems that allow long -distance communication through signal transmission and reception. Typically, these signals spread through electromagnetic waves, but it is extensible to any means that allows communication between an origin and a destination as written means, sounds, images or even people.
Computer Definition: Computer science is the science of automatic information treatment through a computer (also called computer or computer). Among the most popular tasks that this technology has facilitated are: Develop documents, send and receive email, draw, create visual and sound effects, lay out brochures and books, manage accounting information in a company, reproduce music, control industrial processes andplay.
What are tic’s?
ICTs are the tools at our disposal to be able to carry out computer and communication activities, they are currently what almost everyone uses to extract fast information without leaving home or communication links. ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) are tools that process, synthesize and present varied information and available to everyone, opening the doors of communication and making their triple contribution known (computer science, telecommunications and audiovisual technologies) All this in a digital world fruit of scientific development. When we talk about ICT today, we refer to the set of technological advances that are provided with the progress of computers, internet, telephony, virtual reality and multimedia applications.
Tics origin and history
The so -called Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) occupy a central place in society and in the economy of the end of the century, with increasing importance. The ICT concept arises as technological convergence of electronics, software and telecommunications infrastructure. The association of these three technologies results in a conception of the information process, in which communications open new horizons and paradigms. In a broad concept, the telephone, television and computer can be considered part of what is called ICT as technologies that favor communication and the exchange of information in the current world.
After the invention of writing, the first steps towards an information society were marked by: the electric telegraph (1833), in 1876 Grahan Bell invents the phone, in Boston. In 1927 the first long -distance radiotelephony transmission was carried out, between the US and the United Kingdom, 1948 (July 1): three Bell Laboratory engineers invented the transistor, which, without any, was a fundamental advance for the entire industryof telephony and communications. 1951 The first transcontinental microwave system begins to operate, between New York and San Francisco. 1956 (throughout the year): the first transatlantic telephone cable begins to be installed. 1963 (November 10): The First Public Telephone Center, in the USA, with electronic components and even partially digital. 1965 (April 11): In Succasunna, USA, the first computerized office is installed, which, without a doubt, constituted the birth of computer development.
From 1995 until now the teams have been incorporating digital technology, which has enabled all the change and new trends to which we attend. The Association of Informatics and Telecommunications in the last decade of the twentieth century has benefited from the miniaturization of the components, allowing to produce "multifunction" devices at accessible prices since 2000. Television and Internet. Mobile telephony and GPS have associated the image to the text and the word "without cables". Internet and television are accessible on the mobile phone, which is also a photos.
What is the importance of ICTs in occupational health?
They are responsible for the design, development, promotion, maintenance and administration of information through computer and communication systems.
In occupational health it is vital to carry out prevention and promotion activities so that events that produce work and occupational disease, do not present, since they deteriorate the quality of life of that internal client, and therefore alters productivity And positioning of the company, however, in companies a paradigm continues to project the importance of it, since they see it as an expense more than an investment, although they know that everything related to this issue is mandatory compliance for companies; Added to this, most of them must generate profitability, for this reason, training and commitment times are less and less, and people do not motivate themselves so easily due to the same level of demand, that is, sensitization Especially in our department it is more to meet a requirement than to tend for a culture of self-care and safe work spaces and we must develop innovative, creative, impact strategies that generate concerns, reflections and safe work behaviors.
In what occupational health processes are ICTs?
- Training for employees
- Instruments for all types of data process.
- Induction of the activities they are going to do at work
- Immediate communication channels, to disseminate information and contact any person or institution in the world.
- Storage of large amounts of information.
- Cognitive instrument that enhances our mental abilities and allows the development of new ways of thinking.
- Easy access to all types of information.
- Task automation.
- Interactivity. Computers allow us to ‘dialogue’ with management programs, video games, multimedia training materials, specific expert systems, etc.
- Homogeneization of the codes used for the registration of information through the digitalization of all types of information: textual, sound, iconic and audiovisual. You can capture any information, process it and finally convert it to any format to store or distribute it. Thus, for example, there are character recognition programs that read and make the texts, voice recognition programs that write to the dictation, scanners and digital cameras that digitize images ..
What is occupational health?
It is the set of activities associated with varied disciplines, whose objective is the promotion and maintenance of the highest possible degree of physical, mental and social well -being of workers of all professions promoting the adaptation of work to man and man to his work. Occupational health is made up of industrial hygiene, industrial safety of Occupational Medicine Preventive Medicine etc.
Occupational health aims to prevent occupational diseases, protect workers from risks to their health present in the work environment where they perform, and establish environmental conditions adapted to the physical and psychological conditions and abilities of workers.
In this context, 3 specific objectives are defined:
- Maintain and promote the health and capacity of workers’ work.
- Improve working conditions to favor the health and safety of workers.
- Develop cultures and organizational systems that favor health and safety at work, promoting a positive organizational climate, greater efficiency and company productivity optimization.
conclusion
ICTs are necessary for employee training when it is necessary. They are also instruments for all types of data process, task automation, immediate communication channels, to disseminate information and contact any person or institution in the world, storage of large amounts of information, easy access to all kinds of information.
Homogeneization of the codes used for the registration of information through the digitalization of all types of information: textual, sound, iconic and audiovisual. You can capture any information, process it and finally convert it to any format to store or distribute it. Thus, for example, there are characters recognition programs that read and make the texts, voice recognition programs that write to the dictation, scanners and digital cameras that digitize images. Interactivity, computers allow us to ‘dialogue’ with management programs, video games, multimedia training materials, specific expert systems, etc. It is also a cognitive instrument that enhances our mental abilities and allows the development of new ways of thinking.
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