1, prevent and control the occurrence of occupational diseases and reduce the harm of occupational diseases. The morbidity and mortality of various occupational diseases can be reduced by establishing occupational disease prevention mechanism, implementing prevention measures and strengthening occupational health monitoring.
2. Protect the health rights and interests of workers. Occupational diseases will cause long-term or permanent harm to workers' health, make them lose their ability to work and reduce their quality of life. The implementation of the Law on the Prevention and Control of Occupational Diseases also guarantees the health rights and interests of workers.
3. Promote and guarantee the sustainable development of economy and society. The implementation of the Law on the Prevention and Control of Occupational Diseases can reduce the incidence of occupational diseases and its negative impact on the economy and society, and promote the sustainable development of economy, society and environment.
4. Compulsory enterprises to prevent and control occupational diseases. The law stipulates the responsibilities and obligations of enterprises for occupational diseases, and forces enterprises to formulate occupational disease prevention measures and assume the responsibility for occupational disease prevention.
The purpose and significance of People's Republic of China (PRC) Occupational Disease Prevention Law are very important. Its implementation not only protects the rights and interests of workers, promotes sustainable development, but also improves the efficiency and effect of occupational disease prevention and control.
The current situation in China:
First, occupational hazards are widely distributed in China. From traditional industries to emerging industries and tertiary industries, there are certain occupational hazards, and hundreds of millions of people are exposed to occupational hazards. Occupational disease prevention and control involves more than 30 industries, and the list of statutory occupational diseases reaches 1 15. The number of people exposed to occupational hazards, the cumulative incidence of occupational diseases, the number of deaths and the number of new people all rank first in the world.
Second, the incidence of occupational diseases in China is grim. In recent ten years, the incidence of occupational diseases showed an obvious concave rebound trend. The number of cases began to decrease year by year in the early 1990s, and 1997 reached its lowest level and then rebounded.
Third, the occupational hazards in China are mainly dust, and occupational patients are mainly pneumoconiosis, accounting for 765,438+0% of all occupational diseases, and poisoning accounts for 20%, accounting for 90% of all occupational diseases. Coal workers' pneumoconiosis and silicosis are the most serious pneumoconiosis, and more than half of pneumoconiosis patients are coal workers' pneumoconiosis.