China News Service, April 25th. On the 25th, Wu Zongzhi, director of the Department of Occupational Health of the National Health and Health Commission, said at a press conference on the theme of "Everything for the Health of the People - Our Decade" that in recent years, key occupational diseases such as pneumoconiosis have become more common. The trend of high incidence has been initially curbed, and workers' occupational health rights and interests have been further protected.
The number of new cases of occupational diseases reported nationwide dropped from 27,420 in 2012 to 15,407 in 2021, a drop of 43.8%.
Wu Zongzhi said that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, my country's occupational health cause has developed rapidly, and occupational disease prevention and control work has achieved remarkable results.
First, the regulation and standard system and the regulatory system and mechanism have been continuously improved.
The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress has revised the Law on the Prevention and Control of Occupational Diseases three times, and a relatively complete system of laws, regulations and standards has been formed. The city and county four-level occupational disease prevention and control work coordination mechanism has formed a work force.
Second, the special governance of key industries continued to advance.
Organized and launched the pneumoconiosis prevention and control campaign, and achieved the work goal of "find out the basics, strengthen prevention, control increments, and ensure stock".
In 19 key industries such as mining, metallurgy, and building materials, special management of occupational disease hazards has been carried out, and enterprises have been urged to improve production processes, eliminate outdated technologies, improve protective facilities, and strengthen personal protection. The working environment has been significantly improved.
Third, the technical service and support capabilities have been significantly improved.
Implementing the reform requirements of "delegating power, delegating power, delegating power, delegating power, delegating power and improving services", optimizing the approval procedures for technical service institutions, strengthening the planning layout and capacity building of technical support institutions, and basically forming a combination of occupational disease monitoring and evaluation, occupational disease hazard engineering protection, occupational disease diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation, and professional technical services. The technical support network has established a working system of "prefectural and city diagnosis, county and district physical examination, and township rehabilitation".
Fourth, the risk monitoring and evaluation work has been continuously strengthened.
Occupational disease prevention and control shall be included in basic public health service items, and all occupational disease types shall be included in the monitoring scope of occupational diseases and occupational disease hazard factors, with the coverage rate of monitoring counties and districts reaching over 95%.
The general situation of occupational disease hazards in industrial enterprises and the survival and security of occupational pneumoconiosis patients have been basically found out.
Actively promote the establishment of a working mechanism for risk monitoring, precise supervision, timely rectification and continuous improvement.
Fifth, the occupational health protection action was carried out in an all-round way.
Vigorously carry out publicity and education activities such as the "Occupational Disease Prevention Law" publicity week to create a strong cultural atmosphere of occupational health in the whole society.
Strengthen the prevention of work-related diseases such as mental health and musculoskeletal system diseases of employees.
Actively carry out the construction of healthy enterprises, strive to be "occupational health experts" series of activities, vigorously promote the occupational health literacy monitoring of key groups, and the majority of workers have a significantly enhanced sense of occupational health.
Wu Zongzhi pointed out that in recent years, the high incidence of pneumoconiosis and other key occupational diseases has been initially curbed, and workers' occupational health rights and interests have been further protected.
The number of new cases of occupational diseases reported nationwide dropped from 27,420 in 2012 to 15,407 in 2021, a drop of 43.8%; among them, the number of new cases of reported occupational pneumoconiosis dropped from 24,206 in 2012 to 11,809 in 2021. A drop of 51.2%.
In addition, since the beginning of 2020, the National Health and Health Commission has coordinated the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic and occupational health, and worked with relevant departments to formulate and release a series of technical guidelines for enterprise epidemic prevention and control and resumption of work and production, and organized more than 1.5 million enterprises and institutions. Carrying out special inspections and technical guidance, especially making positive contributions to winning the battle against epidemic prevention and control and ensuring healthy economic and social development.