Virulent Diseases in the Workplace

Some jobs require direct contact with viruses, such as jobs in hospitals and nursing care clinics, and some are just part of the job, such as virology studies and disease control. Some diseases can be spread through the exchange of bodily fluids, such as the HIV and AIDS viruses, and some diseases are in the mind, such as emotional alcoholism or self cutting and masochism. Whether the focus is to get attention, crave help for suffering, or to just survive another day, people handle different types of virulent diseases in very different ways.

In the workplace, people enjoy talking behind each others’ backs. Office politics are quite common because they are, in essence, enjoyable for the participants. On the jobsite, employees enjoy complaining about how they are being put upon by “the man,” even if they enjoy their job, because it instigates a feeling of camaraderie between them and their coworkers. It is, in essence, a form of bonding.

Disease is not something to just be avoided or to be fearful of. Disease, all disease, which begins in the mental and emotional states, becomes social and physical as time goes on. The trick is to be aware of what disease looks like in others so that you can avoid it, and in yourself so that you can rip it out of yourself.

As far as other diseases and issues go, they are far more likely to occur in substance abusers than in any other people. For that reason, Mediscreen provides onsite drug and alcohol testing for companies throughout Australia which desire to keep their workplaces as healthy as possible, both physically and otherwise. Professionalism demands that employee safety be made top priority at all time. Mediscreen offers drug and alcohol testing on your jobsite or in your place of business, we store your employee testing records at your site, and we take any questionable tests results back to the lab for you. No commute and less money. Workplace drug testing can be as easy as that. Don’t over think it.