Guideline 23. Database of exposed workers

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The institution maintains a database on occupational health risk exposure to arrange for medical screening and long-term follow-up, to collect exposure and diagnostic data and to verify insurance claims based on suspected occupational diseases.

Guideline code

PREV_03000

Mechanism

The management should ensure that the database is reviewed for causal links between occupational exposures and occupational diseases.
The management should ensure that the database is used for epidemiological evaluation and research in order to contribute to the sum of knowledge on the origin of occupational diseases.
The prevention department should ensure that the database is used to support employers – especially in small and medium-sized enterprises – to organize preventive medical screening (e.g. by listing physicians qualified in the field of occupational medicine located close to the enterprise, generating documentation including examination forms, and sending reminders to employers on due dates for follow-up examinations).
The prevention department should ensure that the database is used to support the medical profession and should automatically inform medical professionals during examinations that a disease might have an occupational origin.
The prevention department should ensure that the database is used to monitor whether all necessary medical examinations are conducted in due time.
The prevention department should use the database to supply data related to insurance claims based on suspected occupational diseases.

Parent

B. Prevention Activities and Services

Structure

The prevention department or a specialized sub-unit of the prevention department should set up a comprehensive database on work history, workplace exposures and the results of medical check-ups, to gain an overview of exposed insured persons which can be used for preventive and compensation purposes as well as enabling research to establish new causal links between an occupational exposure and an occupational disease.

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