How to identify new occupational diseases in the workplace?

The Law on the Prevention and Control of Occupational Diseases stipulates that the publicity week of the Law on the Prevention and Control of Occupational Diseases should be included in the last week of April every year. When the publicity week of the Law on Environmental Protection of Occupational Diseases comes, the publicity and planning of occupational diseases prevention has once again become the focus of today's society.

Some workers have found that new occupational diseases have long been an important chronic disease endangering health. There is an urgent need for professionals to call for safeguarding the physical and mental health interests of workers and caring about new occupational diseases.

The new occupational disease in the mirror is a traditional occupational disease, which refers to the diseases caused by employers such as companies, institutions and individual economic development structures contacting with harmful substances such as smoke and radioactive elements in post-related activities. The laws and regulations of all countries in the world require the prevention and treatment of occupational diseases. Generally, diseases that meet the legal requirements are called occupational diseases.

In recent years, with the acceleration of modernization and urbanization, economic development and reform, adjustment of economic structure, application of new technologies, application steps of new technologies, popularization and application of new machinery and equipment, and new materials, the occupational hazard factors that employees of the company have learned in post-themed activities are more diversified and complicated. Nowadays, chronic diseases such as mouse hand, cervical spondylosis, lumbar disc herniation and eye vision diseases are called new occupational diseases by office workers. This kind of occupational disease is unfair, and it is embarrassing for workers to be protected by consumers.

During the interview, the reporter learned whether he had mastered new occupational diseases and whether he felt that he had suffered from new occupational diseases. Many workers don't know, I really don't know, and I don't think they have a new occupational disease. Zhang Chen is an office worker and works in an IT company. Stiff neck, dry eyes, backache. It is not a disease to mention this kind of pain. Zhang Chengang sat down to work for a long time.

Employers of new occupational diseases also have wrong ideas. Is this an occupational disease? Therefore, employees ask for sick leave from enterprises due to occupational diseases. Occupational diseases have no significant harm to employees. The reporter interviewed several enterprises, and 90% of the workers and employers have similar situations.

How to locate new occupational diseases? The law on the prevention and control of occupational diseases shall identify occupational diseases with occupational hazards such as smoke, radioactive elements and other toxic and harmful substances formed in the whole process of post-related activities of companies, institutions or economic development institutions of the unit.

The revised Catalogue of Occupational Hazards divides occupational hazards into six categories, with a total of 459 factors. New factors such as PM2.5 and long-term contact with computers are not included in the scope of occupational hazards. New occupational diseases are not listed in the national legal occupational diseases list. The standards of laws and regulations are not enough, and employers are indifferent to these new occupational diseases, which makes it embarrassing for workers and consumers to protect their rights.

With the passage of time and the improvement of workers' age, new occupational diseases are becoming more and more serious, endangering workers' health and even the stability of the workforce, which should attract the attention of workers and employers.

The relevant staff of the Labor Protection Department of the Provincial Federation of Trade Unions said that employees should try their best to safeguard their physical and mental health interests, and have democratic interests such as autonomy, participation and decision-making power in occupational disease prevention and control during the whole process of employment of employees and students to ensure safety and health. At the same time, the employer should establish a corresponding labor protection supervision and management system to safeguard the physical and mental health of workers from the root. In addition, the development of the whole society should always explore the prevention of new occupational diseases, and relevant departments should speed up the legal process and bring them into the scope of national statutory occupational diseases as soon as possible. Workers raise their awareness of new occupational diseases in the whole process of work and use laws and regulations to protect their own interests.