Improve workers' awareness of occupational disease prevention

The National Occupational Disease Report 2013 released by the National Health and Family Planning Commission on the 30th showed that 26,393 cases of occupational diseases were reported in the country last year, including 23,152 cases of pneumoconiosis, accounting for 87.72% of the total reported cases.

The author believes that raising workers' awareness of self-prevention is the key to preventing and reducing the harm of occupational diseases. It is known that pneumoconiosis is a systemic disease that is mainly caused by diffuse fibrosis in the lungs due to long-term inhalation of harmful harmful dust. There are many sources of productive dust. Almost all industrial and agricultural production processes can produce dust. The dust concentration produced by some processes is still high, which seriously affects the health of professional people. In daily inspections, it was found that employers did not correctly select and purchase laborers' protective equipment according to labor protection product distribution standards. Workers did not properly wear and use protective equipment for the types of exposure hazards.

The reason is that in addition to the relatively late start of occupational disease prevention work in China, the poor production conditions of enterprises, the declaration of occupational disease hazards, and safety notifications and preventive measures are not in place, the lack of self-protection awareness among laborers is the main cause of high incidence of pneumoconiosis. Today, the occupational hazards in workplaces have caused the security supervisory departments at all levels to attach great importance, but the situation is severe and long-term.

On the one hand, we must accelerate the adjustment of industrial structure of enterprises. We must actively rely on advances in science and technology to promote the optimization and upgrading of industrial structures. In particular, small cement companies, small steel companies, small oil refineries, small glass companies, and small electroplating companies that have serious environmental pollution and occupational hazards must be cleaned up and shut down. At the same time, we must combine the construction of small towns and actively develop tertiary industries such as commerce, transportation, catering, services, and tourism. To achieve clean development and safe development.

On the one hand, it must strictly implement the employer's responsibility for occupational disease prevention and control. Employers must establish and improve the responsibility system for prevention and control of occupational diseases in strict accordance with the requirements of relevant laws and regulations and administrative regulations, strictly implement the construction project occupational health evaluation system and occupational health monitoring system, strictly implement the occupational hazards declaration system at the workplace, and formulate emergency plans for occupational disease hazards. And strengthen the safety notification of occupational hazards.

On the other hand, we must raise the awareness of workers' safety precautions. First, workers should consciously accept the propaganda, education and training of employers on occupational disease prevention and control knowledge, understand relevant laws and regulations on occupational health, and master the types, hazards, and preventive measures of harmful factors in the company, workshop, and work position; secondly, workers must Conduct pre-job, post-occupation and post-occupation occupational health examinations, know their own health status, and engage in suitable jobs. Third, workers must learn to correctly use personal protective equipment, and develop and use protective clothing and face masks. , protective glasses, earplugs and other personal protective equipment habits to prevent accidents.

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