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Endocrine System

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What Is the Endocrine System?

The endocrine system is made up of glands that make hormones. Hormones are the body's chemical messengers. They carry information and instructions from one set of cells to another.

The endocrine (EN-duh-krin) system influences almost every cell, organ, and function of our bodies.

What Does the Endocrine System Do?

Endocrine glands release hormones into the bloodstream. This lets the hormones travel to cells in other parts of the body.

The endocrine hormones help control mood, growth and development, the way our organs work, metabolism , and reproduction.

The endocrine system regulates how much of each hormone is released. This can depend on levels of hormones already in the blood, or on levels of other substances in the blood, like calcium. Many things affect hormone levels, such as stress, infection, and changes in the balance of fluid and minerals in blood.

Too much or too little of any hormone can harm the body. Medicines can treat many of these problems.

What Are the Parts of the Endocrine System?

While many parts of the body make hormones, the major glands that make up the endocrine system are the:

hypothalamus

pituitary

thyroid

parathyroids

adrenals

pineal body

the ovaries

the testes

The pancreas is part of the endocrine system and the digestive system. That's because it secretes hormones into the bloodstream, and makes and secretes enzymes into the digestive tract.

Hypothalamus: The hypothalamus (hi-po-THAL-uh-mus) is in the lower central part of the brain. It links the endocrine system and nervous system. Nerve cells in the hypothalamus make chemicals that control the release of hormones secreted from the pituitary gland. The hypothalamus gathers information sensed by the brain (such as the surrounding temperature, light exposure, and feelings) and sends it to the pituitary. This information influences the hormones that the pituitary makes and releases.

Pituitary: The pituitary (puh-TOO-uh-ter-ee) gland is at the base of the brain, and is no bigger than a pea. Despite its small size, the pituitary is often called the "master gland." The hormones it makes control many other endocrine glands.

The pituitary gland makes many hormones, such as:

growth hormone, which stimulates the growth of bone and other body tissues and plays a role in the body's handling of nutrients and minerals

prolactin (pro-LAK-tin), which activates milk production in women who are breastfeeding

thyrotropin (thy-ruh-TRO-pin), which stimulates the thyroid gland to make thyroid hormones

corticotropin (kor-tih-ko-TRO-pin), which stimulates the adrenal gland to make certain hormones

antidiuretic (an-ty-dy-uh-REH-tik) hormone, which helps control body water balance through its effect on the kidneys

oxytocin (ahk-see-TOE-sin), which triggers the contractions of the uterus that happen during labor

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And that starts with you!

No matter what your job in the workplace,you need to be aware of the responsibilities you have in the Risk Management process. There are 3 simple steps you need to be a part of:

Identify Hazards

Assess Risks

Control Risks

These important steps are the focus of every WHS decision that gets made. Let’s take a look at how every worker can successfully play their partin accident prevention. We’ll look at each step and provide some simple steps you can take to protect your workplace.

Step 1 – Identify Hazards

Your workplace should already have a Hazard Register. It might be called something else but essentially this is a record of all the known hazards (or things that could cause accidents) in your workplace and their associated risks (what would happen if they did cause an accident).

A hazard register is only useful if it’s kept up to date. As the work environment changes, new hazards appear and need to be added and old ones might change oreven no longer be there.

WHAT YOU CAN DO: If you see something dangerous – or that might be dangerous – Tell someone! Your foreperson, manager or WHS officer needs to know about it. It maybe that something has broken or a new piece of equipment having an unexpected effect on safety. But it won’t get fixed it no one knows about it. And don’t worry if they already know. You can still be certain that you have done everything you can.

Step 2 – Assess the Risk

Once they know about a hazard, your WHS officer needs to assess the situation and work out the risks it causes. They have a simple process to follow involving working out the possible consequences (how bad would it be?) and the likelihood (how soon will it happen?) of an accident occurring. This gives them the information they need to make a good decision.

WHAT YOU CAN DO: As the risk is being assessed, the WHS officer will need to know the full story of those working around the hazard. This may mean getting more information on the workflow, how a piece of equipment is used and what maintenance needs to be performed.

When you are asked for information, you need to tell them everything you can think of. If you notice something that they haven’t, speak up!

Step 3 – Control the Risk

Once all the appropriate information hasbeen gathered, a plan will be made to control the risk. It may involve performing additional maintenance, changing the workflow, how a tool is used or any other measure that is necessary to improve safety.

WHAT YOU CAN DO: Follow the instructions you are given. Never short cut the safety measures that havebeen put in place. This is one of themost important things to remember.

The other thing you can do is provide feedback. Even when a new system of work is put in place, there may need to be changes and refinements made. If you notice that in practice, there are still weaknesses – Speak up! You may, for example, have to take additional safety measures. Tell your WHS officer about them so they can incorporate them into the plan

The important thing is SPEAK UP!

No matter what step of the process your at, it’s important to speak up if you have concerns.

Remember no one can fix something they don’t know about. If you do, then you can besure you are playing your part in making your workplace as safe and preventing accidents.

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