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  Occupational and Environmental Medicine, a subspecialty of Preventive Medicine, focuses on the health of workers including the ability to perform work; the arrangements of work, the physical, chemical, biological, and social environments of the workplace, and the OEM Physicians are also skilled at using the tools of preventive medicine to improve the health of a defined population of workers and their families. The workplace venue and culture of the corporation are very useful tools that are not available to any other medical practitioner. A growing body of literature documents the value of such general prevention efforts to improve the health, the morale, and the productivity of a workforce, with positive effects on the profitability of the corporation. 
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health outcomes of environmental exposures. Practitioners in this field diagnose, treat and prevent morbid conditions caused by environmental exposures and stressors. They recognize that work and the environment in which it is performed can have favorable or adverse effects upon the health of workers as well as of other populations; that the nature or circumstances of work can be arranged to protect worker health; and that health and well-being at the workplace are promoted when workers' physical attributes or limitations are accommodated in job placement.