NEW OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES LEGISLATION RULES – FUNCTIONING EVALUATION

Tracing New Occupational Diseases, an Introduction

Continuous changes in work and in working conditions give rise to new occupational health risks and possibly to new occupational diseases. Social partners and governments have a need for timely and specific knowledge about new risks. Where there is insufficient knowledge of these risks, opportunities for intervention and prevention are missed. Although a great deal of effort goes into risk asse...

Occupational health legislation: Recent amendments (The Maharashtra Factories Rules): Issues and concerns

Severe occupational chromium allergy despite cement legislation.

Severe occupational chromium allergy despite cement legislation Yolanda S. Hedberg1,2, Martin Gumulka3, Marie-Louise Lind1,3, Mihály Matura3 and Carola Lidén1,3 1 Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77, Stockholm, Sweden, 2Division of Surface and Corrosion Science, Department of Chemistry, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE-100 44, Stockholm, Sweden, and 3Unit ...

An evaluation of EU legislation concerning risk assessment and preventive measures in occupational safety and health.

The European Council Directive 89/391/EC of 12 June 1989 is concerned with the introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the occupational safety and health. For example, it deals with risk assessment and preventive measures. The Finnish legislation enacts the risk assessment and prevention measures in a similar way as the EU Directive 89/391/EC. The aim of this study was to examine:...

Finding 'new' occupational diseases and trends in 'old' ones.

Strategies for the reduction of risk to the health of workers, as well as the population in general, rely on the collection, analysis and interpretation of valid data to study work-related ill-health in relation to its determinants. In the developed world, through advances in occupational medicine and changing societal attitude reflected in legislation, the scourges of many occupational disease...