Ways of occupational disease control
An occupational disease is any chronic ailment that occurs as a result of work or occupational activity. However, according to doctor Ho Hoang Van, director of the provincial Center for Labor Health and Environment, occupational disease can be actively prevented by many measures.Situation and reason of occupational diseaseTo protect health for laborers in the process of labor and production, the Party and Government have over years set out many policies and measures to improve workplace condition and environment, to reinforce training for workers constantly contacting toxic elements.Many businesses have made efforts to implement the above policies and measures as well as promulgate ways of poisonous element control for laborers.However, equipment of labor protection and hygiene in production remains limited. Poisonous elements remain bad influences on health. Reportedly, rate of samples surpassing standards on labor hygiene remains high. Temperature, noise, toxic gas, etc focus on fields of timber, footwear, mechanic and so on. At present, some occupational diseases have included deaf and lung diseases. However, work on periodical health check up and finding on occupational diseases for laborers remain difficult. Most of businesses have yet to pay attention to health check up and occupation disease finding for workers, owing to worry of prestige.In terms of reason of occupation disease, doctor Van said that owing to contact chemical or workplace psychology, laborers must suffer occupational diseases. Control of occupational diseaseTo find out occupational disease for laborers' health, employers should cooperate with local clinics of occupational disease or medical sector to hold health check up for laborers. To minimize occupational disease for laborers, workers must actively apply concrete and positive measures. According to doctor Van, there are 3 measures on occupational disease provision. First, technical measure includes control of poisonous elements (vacuum, ventilation, wet), decrease of using equipment making noise. Second, health check up offering for laborers is to find out timely occupational diseases. Last, labor protection facilities should be offered for laborers.Reported by H.Thuan - Translated by A.C
