Occupational disease "white injury" is included in the safety assessment

Not long ago, the author went to a company's production workshop to inspect the safety production. He saw that the workshop's safety operation procedures were relatively complete, and the employees' operations were also standardized. However, the workshop equipment produced more dust during operation, but the workshop did not have a corresponding installation of dust-reduction equipment. No dust-proof technical measures were formulated, and employees did not wear dust masks .

The person in charge of the workshop stated that as long as the equipment is overhauled and maintained, and the employees strictly follow the operating procedures, no safety accidents will occur. When the inspection team proposed dust hazards, the responsible person stated that there was no occupational disease in the safety index of the company's assessment workshop.

For a long time, the society has paid more attention to and attached importance to safety incidents known as “red wounds.” Strengthening safe production has become the mantra of managers at all levels of the company, instead of the “white wounds” that shed blood, namely occupational diseases and occupational hazards, to conceal it. Sexual and delayed features are easily overlooked. Some companies are not very aware of occupational hazards. However, "white wounds" are occupational diseases and occupational hazards, and the damage groups are more and more extensive, the potential harms are heavier, and the long-term destructive effects are greater.

The author has been engaged in safety production inspection for many years and knows well that the assessment indicators for safety production formulated by some companies include assessment indicators such as death, serious injuries, minor injuries and other “red injuries”, and do not include “white injuries”. In the implementation of occupational hazard prevention and control responsibility, the responsibility for the prevention of occupational hazards has not been included in the responsibility letter in the safety production responsibility signed between the enterprise legal person and the subordinate production unit and the person in charge of the relevant department. In the security inspections conducted by many business organizations, occupational hazard prevention and control work has not been checked accordingly.

It should be noted that in the 11 years since the Occupational Disease Prevention Law was promulgated, enterprises have placed more emphasis on labor safety than before. However, with the changes in socio-economic development concepts, business models, labor employment systems and other factors, the occupational health situation is still worrying. Harm is still a topic of social concern. According to statistics, there are more than 16 million poisonous and harmful enterprises in China, and the number of occupational hazards exceeds 200 million. The direct economic loss caused by occupational disease damage amounts to 100 billion yuan each year. The loss of labor caused by occupational diseases is difficult to estimate with money.

Emphasis on the prevention and control of occupational hazards highlights the fear of life. Occupational hazard prevention and treatment should be a complete chain, inserted in the end, which is the enterprise production site. The key to the emergence of occupational diseases is the prevention of problems, and the main responsibility for prevention is business. The "white wounds" will be incorporated into the company's safety assessment index system, and the responsibility will be broken down into the heads of the company's various units and departments. This will make the implementation and supervision on the spot more effective.

First, we must resolve the ideological consciousness of business managers and correct the ideological tendency of “emphasizing the development of light health, focusing on the efficiency of light input, focusing on the treatment of light prevention, and stressing 'red injury', 'light' white injury,” and establishing “white injury” is the accident. "The concept. The qualitative and quantitative indicators were combined to quantify the “white injury” as occupational disease prevention planning and responsibility, occupational health training rate, occupational health inspection rate, occupational disease risk factor detection rate, occupational disease risk contract notification rate, new occupational disease Control indicators such as the number of cases are included in the category of corporate safety assessment indicators.

The safety production responsibility signed between the enterprise legal person and its affiliated units and department heads shall include occupational hazard prevention and control requirements and assessment indicators, as well as arrangements, inspections and assessments.

The trade union organizations of enterprises must also strengthen the supervision over the prevention and treatment of occupational hazards in various departments and units and form a long-term mechanism for the prevention and control of occupational diseases in multiple sectors. In addition, government agencies such as safety supervision, occupational health, etc. shall strengthen the supervision and inspection of enterprises.

The prevention of occupational hazards is related to the physical health and life safety of workers, and the prevention of invisible “white wounds” pain requires not only the attention of the society, government supervision, but also the need for enterprises to truly establish a people-centered concept, to fear the law and to fear life. Heart, strengthen the prevention and treatment of occupational diseases, protect and protect the health of workers.

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