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KMID : 0381319930320020053
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Korean Journal of Occupational Health
1993 Volume.32 No. 2 p.53 ~ p.59
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New Trends of Occupational Health
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Abstract
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The Industrial Revolution brought about adverse health effects to many European workers because working conditions at that time were unhygienic. As a remedy, the Factory Acts and the Workers´ Compensation Law were promulgated.
It was not until the 20th century, however, that the systematic medical approaches to occupational health were established and the subsequent applications of industrial hygiene engineering concepts played a pivotal role in preventing occupational diseases. Such events apparently had influenced upon the awareness of the manpower management in industrial settings.
Although automation in the workplace has freed many workers from hard manual labours, new problems such as neuropsychologic and sensory disorders have been increasing because of automatic machine gives rise to a sense of alienation.
Meanwhile, the advancement of space-age technologies and a rapid development in the fields of electronic engineering permits precise measurements and analyses of even a minute amount of toxic substance. These high technologies have also opened a new era in establishing precised permissible exposure limits in studying carcinogenic, mutagenic effects in chronic exposures to many chemicals. And the proliferation of a number of industrial robots poses new challenges in the occupational health field.
Despite these developments, occupational health problems in small scale industries (SSI) remain to be solved. These SSIs account for the overwhelming majority of all industries. Occupational health, thus, requires a new systematic approach. That is to say, improving workers´ health by active participation in production line utilizing new
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