Health monitoring is to evaluate the influence and degree of occupational harmful factors on the health of contacts through various inspections and analysis, grasp the health status of employees, and find signs of health damage in time, so as to take corresponding preventive measures to prevent the occurrence and development of diseases caused by harmful factors.
Health monitoring basically belongs to secondary prevention. Combined with the monitoring of production environment and the analysis of occupational epidemiology, the relationship between the occurrence and development of diseases caused by occupational harmful factors and contact effects (reactions) can be studied. Evaluating the effect of protective measures can provide scientific basis for formulating and revising health standards and taking further control measures, so as to achieve the purpose of primary prevention.
Traditional health monitoring refers to medical monitoring, with health examination as the main means, including finding new cases and identifying diseases. However, the cause of occupational hazards is external occupational harmful factors; Therefore, only finding patients with occupational diseases can not achieve the purpose of controlling the cause and eliminating occupational diseases. Therefore, occupational health monitoring should include working environment (as mentioned above) and organism. The latter includes health examination, establishment and application of health records, health status analysis and labor ability appraisal.