Occupational disease, prevention and treatment

On June 3, occupational diseases refer to diseases caused by exposure of workers of enterprises, institutions, and individual economic organizations to dust, radioactive substances, and other toxic and harmful substances during their professional activities. At present, it has entered China's "Occupational Diseases List," the provisions of the occupational diseases have pneumoconiosis, occupational radiation diseases, occupational poisoning, a total of 10 categories of 115 kinds of diseases. The reporter learned yesterday from the city’s health department that a total of 179 new cases of occupational diseases were diagnosed in the city from the year of 2006 to 2013.

High incidence of three occupational diseases

Of these 179 new cases, pneumoconiosis accounted for the first in the number of occupational diseases, 73 cases, accounting for 40.78% of the total; the second place was acute poisoning, a total of 39 cases, accounting for 21.79%; the third occupation Oral and throat diseases, 36 cases, accounting for 20.11%. Among them, pneumoconiosis is mainly due to pneumoconiosis and silicosis among electric welders. Occupational otorhinolaryngologic diseases are all noisy.

Deputy Director of Municipal Health Bureau Cao Yuyun introduced that pneumoconiosis is still the main occupational disease in the city, which may be related to ships and related supporting machinery manufacturing industries. With the development of chemical companies and the use of chemicals, acute poisoning incidents still occur. The prevention and control of chemical poisoning has become one of the issues that need to be addressed in occupational health work. Occupational noise is related to the rapid development of Nantong's traditional home textile industry and ship heavy industry.

In 2013, there were 43 cases of newly diagnosed occupational diseases in our city, which was the highest in the calendar year. Cao Yuyun said that this does not mean that the city’s occupational disease risk factors have increased, but that employees’ concept of prevention and treatment of occupational diseases is increasing. In addition, the increase in testing organizations and testing methods, and the increased emphasis on occupational health examinations by enterprises are also the main reasons for the increase in new cases of occupational diseases.

Peasant workers become major groups of occupational diseases

From 2012 to 2013, the city conducted a total of 86,324 occupational health examinations, found 340 pre-employment contraindications, 628 contraindications at post, and 56 suspected occupational diseases. According to Yu Zhixiang, assistant director of the Municipal Work Safety Supervision Bureau, migrant workers have become the most seriously affected group.

According to the regulations of the safety supervision department and the health department, employers should organize occupational health examinations for workers who come into contact with occupational hazards to perform occupational health examinations before, during, and after departure, and inform the laborers in writing of the inspection results at the expense of the employer. . Yu Zhixiang stated that due to the delayed and occult nature of occupational diseases, the occupational health examination rate of SMEs is low, and the actual new occupational disease cases each year are much higher than the existing report figures.

Starting in April of this year, according to the unified deployment of the State Administration of Work Safety, the city launched a special rectification of 41 occupational disease hazards in the cement production and stone processing industries. The results of the inspections are worrying. None of the 41 companies implemented occupational health examinations before, during, or after the job. Migrant workers, especially 40 and 50 personnel, value jobs and wages more, and are more indifferent to occupational hazards in the work environment. Some workers do not take protective measures because of “fear of heat” and “fear of troubles”; they are easy to change jobs and do not sign labor contracts with companies; they do not do occupational medical examinations for a long time and suffer from occupational diseases without knowing themselves.

Occupational disease prevention and treatment awareness needs to be strengthened

According to Yao Hui, chief of supervision of the Sanitation Bureau of the city, as long as employers and employees strengthen protection in organization, management, equipment technology, personal hygiene, and health care, occupational diseases can be prevented to some extent. However, there are still a considerable number of employers and practitioners who do not fully understand the hazards of occupational diseases. Some patients even took the chance to believe that if they break away from a work environment that easily induces occupational diseases, their condition will gradually improve. This is actually a misunderstanding.

Occupational disease physical examination is different from general physical examination. It requires professional medical examination equipment of a professional medical institution. The reporter learned that currently, there are 14 medical and health units with occupational health inspection qualifications in the city, the Municipal Disease Control Center and 6 other county (city) district disease control centers, and Tongzhou People's Hospital, Tongzhou District No. 8 People's Hospital, and Rugao. There are 7 social medical institutions including Pok Oi Hospital, Qidong Tuojiao Elderly Rehabilitation Hospital, Rudong Fengli Hospital, Nantong Borong Clinic, and Zhangjiagang Aoyang Hospital Rongsheng Heavy Industry Physical Examination Point.

The reporter learned from the city safety supervision department that more than 2,000 enterprises in the city have organized more than 80,000 people to participate in occupational health examinations. 6407 companies completed the application of occupational hazards projects. The city has included the wood furniture manufacturing, electronics, leather and footwear industries, cement, stone processing, metallurgy, casting, shipbuilding, steel wire rope, chemical industry and other industries into special focus. The city has 794 key special governance companies.

The city safety supervision department reminded the staff and workers that if they suspect that they have occupational diseases, they can go to a medical and health unit with qualifications for occupational health examinations to diagnose and find that the company’s occupational disease prevention measures are not in place. Call the hotline 85129699.

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