China-Singapore Jingwei, April 25th. On the morning of the 25th, the National Health Commission held a press conference on the theme of "Everything for the Health of the People - Our Decade".
Li Tao, chief expert on occupational health at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that occupational stress, low back pain and other diseases are not currently considered occupational diseases, but it is a work-related disease.
Li Tao, chief expert on occupational health of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, answered questions from reporters
A reporter asked a question at the meeting: Now netizens complain about the work pressure brought by "996", may I ask whether occupational stress, low back pain and other diseases are considered occupational diseases?
In addition, will these diseases be included in the category of occupational diseases in the future?
Will the list of occupational diseases be dynamically updated later?
Li Tao replied that
occupational stress, low back pain and other diseases cannot be regarded as occupational diseases at present, but it is a work-related disease.
According to the Law on the Prevention and Control of Occupational Diseases, occupational diseases refer to occupational diseases caused by workers of enterprises, institutions and individual economic organizations due to exposure to dust, radioactive substances and other toxic and harmful factors in their occupational activities.
The classification and catalogue of occupational diseases are formulated by the health administrative department of the State Council in conjunction with the labor and social security administrative department of the State Council. This is the second and third paragraphs of Article 2 of the Occupational Disease Prevention and Control Law, which is a complete definition.
Li Tao introduced that the classification catalog of occupational diseases was first issued by the Ministry of Health in 1957 after the founding of New China. At that time, it was called "Regulations on the Trial Implementation of the Classification Scope of Occupational Diseases and the Treatment of Occupational Disease Patients", which clarified that occupational diseases include occupational poisoning, pneumoconiosis, etc. 14 kinds of occupational diseases, and after several adjustments were made, and the number of diseases continued to increase.
The current catalogue of occupational diseases was jointly issued by the former National Health and Family Planning Commission and other four departments in 2013. The new catalogue has increased to 132 occupational diseases in 10 categories, of which 4 open clauses have been used to this day.
Li Tao pointed out that the continuous expansion of occupational disease classification and catalogue of diseases reflects the focus of occupational disease prevention and protection in different periods. It is necessary to implement the work policy of focusing on prevention and combining prevention and control, and promote the responsibility of government supervision and the main responsibility of employers for occupational disease prevention and control, and protect labor. Occupational health rights and interests have played an important role.
We see that
occupational stress and low back pain are not currently listed in the classification of occupational diseases, so it can not be regarded as occupational diseases.
But occupational stress, as the name suggests, is the mental and psychological stress caused by occupational activities.
The low back pain we are talking about now does not refer to general low back pain, but a work-related disease caused by long-term overloading of the low back due to work or poor working methods.
Therefore, we say that since it is a work-related disease, the employer should take active measures to prevent the occurrence of these work-related diseases.
Li Tao said that the fifth paragraph of Article 15 of Chapter 2 of the Occupational Disease Prevention Law stipulates that "the equipment, tools, appliances and other facilities of the employer shall meet the requirements of the physical and mental health of the laborer." In fact, it reflects the requirements of the employer. .
For work-related diseases that are not included in the catalogue, we will increase the popularization of disease prevention knowledge, continue to improve the health literacy and skills of the professional population, and strive to achieve the goal of fewer and no diseases for workers.
Li Tao emphasized that the adjustment of the classification and catalogue of occupational diseases should be in line with the national economic and social development level and the affordability of work-related injury insurance, and scientific and rigorous diagnostic standards should be formulated to enable attribution diagnosis of occupational diseases.
According to the national occupational disease prevention and control plan, during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the National Health Commission will work closely with the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security to promote the revision of occupational disease classification and catalogues on the basis of full research and demonstration.
(Sino-Singapore Jingwei APP)