Gansu will include occupational disease patients

In 2009, a total of 107 cases of new occupational diseases were reported in the whole province, including 94 cases of new-onset lung diseases and 13 cases of acute and chronic occupational poisoning. In order to provide effective protection for the safety of employees in various occupational hazards, the General Office of the Provincial Government issued the "Protection Plan for Occupational Diseases of Gansu Province (2010-2015)". The "plan" makes it clear that from next year, there will be two medical institutions at the provincial level and each city and state to set up occupational diseases and carry out occupational disease diagnosis, identification and health checkups; the human and social department will organize occupational injury patients' work injury identification and labor ability appraisal. The implementation of work-related injury treatment; the gradual inclusion of occupational diseases in the scope of medical insurance.

[Status quo] Control the situation

The Occupational Disease Prevention Survey Rate in Gansu Province is Worrying

The reporter learned from the Provincial Department of Health that in recent years new occupational disease hazards and new numbers of victims have been emerging in the province, and the situation facing occupational disease prevention in the province is still very severe. It is understood that occupational diseases in Gansu Province are still dominated by lung diseases in recent years. At present, there are more than 10,000 cases of lung diseases in occupational diseases in our province. In 2009, a total of 107 cases of new occupational diseases were reported in the whole province, including 94 cases of new-onset lung diseases and 13 cases of acute and chronic occupational poisoning. Health supervision agencies at all levels in the province have supervised and inspected the occupational disease hazards mainly based on dust, asbestos, and organic solvents.

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1. Diagnosis and selection of medical institutions and occupational diseases

The plan proposes specific targets. By 2011, there will be two medical institutions at the provincial level and each city and state to set up occupational diseases and carry out occupational disease diagnosis, appraisal, and physical examination. In 2012, there will be 1 in each county and city in the province. Medical institutions set up Occupational Diseases Division; in 2015, municipal, county health supervision and disease prevention departments all set up occupational disease prevention and treatment departments, and personnel training reached more than 95%.

Bao Fuzhen, deputy director of the Provincial Center for Public Health and Occupational Disease Control at the Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that according to the Administrative Measures for the Diagnosis and Identification of Occupational Diseases, the parties need to provide proof of occupational history, occupational health check results, and detection of occupational hazards in workplaces over the years. The diagnosis and identification of occupational diseases can be conducted in local medical and health institutions that have occupational disease diagnostic qualifications. Bao Fuzhen said that after diagnosis of an occupational disease patient, the unit or individual provides an occupational disease certificate as required to the labor administrative department to identify the work injury and enjoy treatment for occupational diseases.

2. Employers signing labor contracts must inform the occupational hazards

The plan is clear and the employer must establish occupational health surveillance files for workers engaged in occupational disease hazards, organize their occupational health inspections in accordance with the law, and tell them truthfully. Workers who suffer or may be exposed to acute occupational diseases must organize medical treatment, health examinations and medical observations in a timely manner, and diagnose suspected patients with occupational diseases in a timely manner. Employers must sign labor contracts with laborers. At the same time, they must earnestly perform the duty of informing occupational diseases, participate in work-related injury insurance in accordance with the law, and implement special protection policies such as harmful job allowances and female employees and underage workers. Planning requirements, highlighting the prevention and control of key occupational diseases. Taking control of silicosis, coal workers’ pneumoconiosis, cement pneumoconiosis and other pneumoconiosis diseases, the project will implement a dust hazard comprehensive treatment project, and shut down small mines and small cement plants that have serious dust hazards and do not have control conditions.

3. Departmental cooperation gradually integrates occupational diseases into medical insurance

The plan clearly defines departmental responsibilities: The health administrative department is responsible for supervising and inspecting the employer's occupational health monitoring and the individual dose monitoring of radiation workers. The safety supervision department is responsible for organizing the investigation and handling of occupational hazards and related illegal activities. The trade union organization is responsible for supervising the employer's obligation to inform workers of the occupational hazards and consequences, requiring the employer to rectify violations of occupational disease prevention laws and regulations and infringement of the lawful rights and interests of laborers, and requires employers that have serious occupational hazards to take protective measures. Or suggest to the relevant government departments to take mandatory measures. Human resources and social security departments are responsible for formulating policies and standards for occupational injury insurance for people exposed to occupational hazards; organizing occupational injury patients' identification of work injuries and labor ability appraisal, and implementing work-related injury treatment; and gradually including occupational disease patients in the scope of medical insurance. The judicial department is responsible for establishing and perfecting the judicial relief system when workers’ legal rights and interests are infringed upon.

4. System guarantees Conduct at least one inspection every year for key units

Local governments must put the prevention and control of occupational diseases on an important agenda, include the prevention and treatment of occupational diseases into the overall planning of the national economy and social development in the region, and establish and improve a target management assessment and accountability system. Strengthen the supervision and inspection of key industries, key enterprises, and key populations, conduct supervision and inspection of key units at least once a year, and conduct supervision and inspection on other units with occupational hazards for one to two years. Each year, an occupational health inspection agency, an occupational disease diagnostic agency, and an occupational health technical service agency are supervised and inspected, and regular annual audits are organized. Those who fail to perform their duties or do not conscientiously perform their work duties shall be investigated for the responsibility of the relevant personnel according to law; those responsible for the occurrence of major occupational disease hazards caused by negligence or malfeasance or causing major casualties and economic losses, as well as bad social influence, shall be investigated according to law. Responsibility.