conditions, such as meningitis, whooping cough, or bloodborne illnesses The List of Occupational Diseases of the International Labour Organization (ILO) also includes "mental and behavioral disorders associated with exposure to risk factors", Historical Donald Hunter in his classic history of occupational diseases discusses many example of occupational diseases. They include: Phossy jaw among the London matchgirls Radiation sickness among some persons who had been working in the nuclear industry Radium jaw among the Radium Girls Squamous cell carcinoma of the skin of the scrotum among chimney sweeps (see Chimney sweeps' carcinoma) Bernardino Ramazzini in his book, dated 1700, De Morbis Artificum Diatriba, outlined the health hazards of chemicals, dust, metals, repetitive or violent motions, odd postures, and other disease-causative agents encountered by workers in more than fifty occupations. Prevention Prevention measures include avoidance of the irritant through its removal from the workplace or through technical shielding by the use of potent irritants in closed systems or automation, irritant replacement or removal and personal protection of the workers. In order to better prevent and control occupational disease, most countries revise and update their related laws, most of them greatly increasing the penalties in case of breaches of the occupational disease laws. Occupational disease prevention, in general legally regulated, is part of good supply chain management and enables companies to design and ensure supply chain social compliance schemes as well as monitor their implementation to identify and prevent occupational disease hazards. See also Industrial and organizational psychology Occupational health psychology Occupational medicine Occupational safety and health References External links Labour law