Physical sickness or inflammation on the jobsite can be a very real health hazard. As your body increases the white blood cell count to deal with healing, sickness, viruses or injury and wounds, inflammation keeps the area hot and uncomfortable, but well heated and attracting those necessary white blood cells, so that you can do some repair work and heal your tissues quickly and efficiently. Scar tissue acts as a temporary device to fill holes or gaps in tissue until the real tissue can be rebuilt, but in either case, inflammation is necessary to get the healing done, although many people dislike it since they believe that it indicates a much bigger problem than it actually does. Many patients in a doctor’s office seek to reduce the inflammation only, without perhaps fully understanding that this may just be repair work which is necessary for their own self healing.
Inflammation on the jobsite can be particularly dangerous, because it induces sleepiness in the individual and it causes them to have impaired judgment and severely weakened alertness. In actuality, inflammation is the beginning process of inducing sleep in the body in order to create huge amounts of energy and complete the healing process. In fact, all repair work done to and for tissues requires a great deal of energy, which in turn requires a great deal of sleep. If the individual does not obtain enough sleep, then the body has the capability of inducing it at any point in time so that it can complete its own repair work. If an employee exhibits signs of being sick, the best thing you can do for them and for your business is to send them home for a period of rest, in order to sleep off their sickness. Inflammation is the beginning step of overriding your conscious decision to go to work and is the beginning step of inducing this energy creating sleep.
Unfortunately, some employees who are alcoholics create unnatural inflammation within their systems, not to mention intoxication, where they appear sick when in fact they are merely hazardous to the safety of your other workers. Onsite drug and alcohol screening is perfect to discern these situations, since alcohol breathalyser devices can be used at any time, especially if you are suspicious of seemingly inebriated behavior. Call Mediscreen today: (+61) 1300 79 70 40.
http://www.resmedjournal.com/article/S0954-6111%2801%2991265-X/abstract
