Evidence Mounting Against Tanning Beds

It would seem that the days of widespread use of tanning beds might soon be over with the recent announcement of the World Health Organization’s cancer research department that such devices can cause cancer. With this declaration, tanning beds have essentially been catapulted to the category of substances and factors that are known cancer risks. While there is still a flourishing trade in new and used tanning beds, the reclassification of such devices from being “likely” to cause cancer to “can definitely” cause cancer warrants some serious rethinking. The reason for all this fuss is that the statistical evidence that tanning beds can cause cancer can no longer be denied.

While all these developments are reason enough to be concerned for everyone who uses and continues to use tanning beds, it is young female adults in particular who should pay attention. Whether through a commercial tanning salon or their own home tanning beds, this demographic has registered an alarming increase in the number of skin cancer cases over the past few years.

Strangely enough, a lot of people still view tanning as a healthy pursuit, even in the face of overwhelming evidence that such activities cause serious damage to the skin. The question that this now brings up is why tanning beds pose such a health risk.

Scientists have known for a while that ultraviolet radiation of the A, B, and C varieties–that is UVA, UVB, and UVC, respectively–can cause lab animals to develop skin cancer. This evidence flies in the face of certain manufacturer’s claims that some models of home tanning beds are safe to use because they emit mostly UVA radiation and not the “bad” UVB. This is either misinformation or downright deception on their part, since UVA is just as dangerous as the other forms of ultraviolet radiation. Simply put, using either new or used tanning beds puts you at risk for skin cancer just as regular overexposure to the sun.

In people up to 30 years old, there has been a huge increase in the number of skin cancer cases, which is undoubtedly due to the popularity of new and used tanning beds. The increase in the number of melanoma cases in young women is even more alarming, with almost 3 times as many from this group getting skin cancer from the early 70s to 2004.

As if this isn’t bad enough, thicker and more potentially fatal melanoma lesions characterize many of today’s skin cancer cases. And scientists are beginning to turn their attention to the widespread use of home tanning beds as the likely culprit.

While a few experts remain hesitant to directly blame the use of tanning beds as the primary cause in the increase in skin cancer cases, the proof is almost irrefutable. While the decision as to whether or not to keep going to tanning salons or buying used tanning beds remain the user’s, it would appear that the use of these devices may be coming to an end.

What is Magic Mouthwash?

To put what it is simply, a magic mouthwash is a combination of different drug items formulated together to be used as a mouthwash for throat issues. They are often used to treat certain effects from certain cancers or cancer treatments or for treating mouth ulcers. Oral Ulcers are caused by radiation therapy and sometimes chemotherapy as well.

Magic Mouthwashes have even been used once in a blue moon in the army and military systems for gonorrhea of the throat. This is usually a preventative measure though prescribed by the pharmacies on site at military bases.

The recipes for the mouthwashes are always in a prescription specified format. Basically a concoction of drugs that will “magically” fix the patients throat issues. It is amazing how well they do work for many people.

There are literally tons of stories out there where terminally ill patients could not even swallow pills but then just hours later after a magic mouthwash they would be eating chips and dip like there was no problem. Though this Mouthwash will not by any stretch save them from their illness, it does provide them comfort and the ability to eat and swallow food and drink once again.

Often times the mouthwash contains a viscous of lidocaine and diphenhydramine for the analgesia. From there the concoctions will differ for each condition and from each different doctor you may have, but you will usually see those first two in most of the blends out there.

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The NEBOSH National Diploma

After undertaking the NEBOSH National Diploma

After successfully completing the course the delegate will:

• GradIOSH designatory letters can be used after enrolment for a period of Initial Professional Development (IPD);
• CMIOSH chartered status is gained after successful completion of a minimum of 2 years Initial Professional Development (IPD) during which they will develop a skills based portfolio in OSH Practice and undertake a professional review interview with the Privy Council;
• Be able to provide detailed advice for health & safety issues in line with current legislation & HSE guidance;
• Be able to assist the organisation in continual health & safety management and control measures;
• Have a broad range of detailed knowledge & the application of key health & safety issues.

NEBOSH Diploma Course Content – The 4 units A, B, C & D content is outlined below & these are accompanied with a common skills element i.e. Communication Skills and Training Skills.

Unit A: Managing Health & Safety

• A1 Principles of health and safety management
• A2 Loss causation and incident investigation
• A3 Identifying hazards, assessing and evaluating risk
• A4 Risk control and emergency planning
• A5 Organisational factors
• A6 Human factors
• A7 Principles of health and safety law
• A8 Criminal law
• A9 Civil law
• A10 Measuring health and safety performance

Unit B: Hazardous Agents in the Workplace

• B1 General aspects of occupational health and hygiene
• B2 Principles of Toxicology and Epidemiology
• B3 Chemical Agents – Evaluating Risk
• B4 Hazardous Substances – Preventative and Protective Measures
• B5 Hazardous Substances – Monitoring and Maintenance of Control Measures
• B6 Biological Agents
• B7 Physical Agents (1) – Noise and Vibration
• B8 Physical Agents (2) – Radiation and Thermal environment
• B9 Psycho-social Agents
• B10 Ergonomic agents

Unit C: Workplace & Work Equipment

• C1 General workplace issues
• C2 Principles of fire and explosion
• C3 Workplace fire risk assessment
• C4 The storage, handling and processing of dangerous substances
• C5 Work equipment
• C6 Machinery safety
• C7 Mechanical handling
• C8 Electrical safety
• C9 Safety in construction and demolition
• C10 Environmental pollution and waste management

Unit D: Application of Health & Safety Theory & Practice

• Candidates are required to make a detailed reveiw of the health & safety performance of a workplace or organisation and produce a justified action plan to improve performance. The expected length of the assisgnment is around 8,000 words.

NEBOSH Training is available for a number of other areas which give you a rang of other certified skills. Protect Life are a health, safety and protective goods superstore. They offer all the above and much more.

Good vendors of this type of training are hard to find. Perhaps the best approach when selecting a supplier is to approach the HSP (Health Safety and Protective) Superstores, they can usually sasitisfy all your health safety and protective training needs. They pridictably have 4 primary training services which we can be delivered locally, nationally or internationally:

1. Defining your needs – Helping clients to evaluate or review theire training requirements and deliver a plan for training which will be flexible enough to work in the designated organisation;

2. Planning – Help customers to present and implement a clear and transparent plan address training all their health safety and protective needs;

3. Deliver one-off or periodic training for individuals/groups. With many of there courses you have the option of Training being delivered face to face, via video, via interactive computer based training or a combination of these methods;

4. Your training department – they can manage all your training issues for you.
They say “training does not have to be costly or restricted to any specific time” As some of their courses can be taken any time of the day and any day of the week.