| occupational disease |
Impairment of health caused by continued exposure to conditions inherent in a person's occupation or a disease caused by an employment or resulting from the nature of an employment. (H)
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| occupational asthma |
This is asthma caused solely by something where you work. There are over 200 substances currently known and recognised as a cause of occupational asthma. Examples are: isocyanates, latex and some wood dusts. Oral steroid A class of medications generally used to help treat severe asthma attacks. Because these medications travel throughout the bloodstream to the entire body, there is more chance for serious side effects to occur.
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| occupancy |
This refers to the type or character of use of the property in question. The type of occupancy has a bearing on its desirability and also effects the rate for the policy.
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| occupational therapist |
Occupational therapists help children to overcome physical or social problems due to illness or disability, by concentrating not on what children are unable to do, but on what they may be able to achieve. They are skilled in adapting a child
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| occupational therapist |
means a person registered to practice occupational therapy. An occupational therapist treats neuromuscular and psychological dysfunction, caused by disease, trauma, congenital anomaly, or prior therapeutic process, through the use of specific tasks or goals directed activities designed to improve functional performance of the patient.
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