To examine occupational health management state of subcontract process, a total of 153 small scale companies (less than 300 workers) were surveyed about subcontract rate, kind of subcontract process, number of workers working in subcontract
process,
management system of occupational health in contrator company and general characteristics of subcontract company.
@ES The summary of results is as follows;
@EN 1. Among 146 companies, 90 companies (61.6%) had subcontract process. And subcontract rate according to the industrial classification was 100% in furniture, 85.7% in fabricated metal products, 75.0% in electrical machinery and apparatus, and
70.0%
in tanning and leather, etc.
2. The total number of workers in subcontract process was 2,591, and number of workers that should get specific health examination for occupational disease was 2,127 (82.1%) among them. Among 2,127 workers, kinds of specific health examination
and
number of workers were 539 workers (20.8%) in organic solvent, 482 workers (18.6%) in lead, 378 workers (14.5%) in noise, and 401 workers (15.4%) in noise and dust.
3. Among the 2,591 subcontract workers, number of workers working in personal subcontract (eq. cottage industry) was 275 (10.7%), 1,772 (68.4%) in partial process subcontract, 544 (20.9%) in total process subcontract.
4. Number of companies that should appoint general safety and health manager by law was 31 (34.4%), and appointment rate was 38.7% among them. Visit ever performed rate of general safety and health manager at subcontract company was 16.6%.
5. Among the above 31 companies, safety and health committee was organised in 3 companies (9.6%), and was held regularly in only 1 company.
6. The causes for subcontract were "for shortness of worker (72.0%)", "to keep the date of delivery (66.6%)", "for company own problems-eq. narrow working space (50.0%)", "for economic incentive (43.3%)", "for difficult labor management (25.5%)",
"for
strict government regulation (24.4%)", "for high and difficult technology (22.2%)".
7. Among the 356 subcontract companies except personal subcontract, average number of workers per company was 13.4, beneficiary rate of Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance was 28.3%, beneficiary rate of general health examination was
23.3%,
beneficiary rate of specific health examination was 11.8%.
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