Workers in hazardous workplace should receive periodic health examination and be treated or removed from the hazardous exposures depending on the screening result. However, not all workplaces can provide alternative jobs, and some workers are
diagnosed
repeatedly with the same disease in the periodic health examination.
To examine the follow up state of workers with occupational diseases diagnosed in 1991 in the periodic health examintion by one Health Examination Institute, all 104 workers diagnosed in 47 workplaces were interviewed from September to December
1992
about their disposition results.
@ES The summary of the results is as follows;
@EN 1. Among 104 workers, 52 workers (50.0%) remained in same department, 31 workers (29.8%) resigned their job, 21 workers (20.2%) were transferred to different department.
2. Among 47 workplaces, only 6 workplaces (12.8%) changed their work environment while 40 workplaces (85.1%) had no such changes and one workplace (2.1%) was closed.
3. Among the respondents, 64 workers (61.6%) answered that they received their personal health examination report while 23 workers (22.1%) did not.
4. Among 104 workers, 39 workers (37.5%) had received further examination and finally only five workers (4.8%) were compensated for the disease.
5. In this study, follow up state of the workers diagnosed as occupational disease showed significant association with the presence of labor union, health nanager, number of workers and the type of diseases.
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