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KMID : 0381319930320020072
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Korean Journal of Occupational Health
1993 Volume.32 No. 2 p.72 ~ p.75
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Promotion of Practical Approaches in Occupational Health
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K. Kogi
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Abstract
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In occupational safety.any health, an increasing emphasis is placed internationally on radical approaches that can lead to concrete, rapid improvements at the wor place. This emphasis is based on the awareness that the reduction of workrelated . risk can be achieved by focusing on practical improvements in both job content and the working environment. It is particularly important to promote practical approaches that can adjust activities to varying local needs.- Special attentions drawn to the thr a common characteristics of such practical approaches. They are (i) establishing a strategy for multifaceted interventions that build on locally achieved improvements (ii)I practical health risk assessment in the local context and (iii) rapid, participatory application of simple cost-effective measures.
These are reflected in international labour standards and in the new international Code.of Ethics for occupational health personnel. A clear trend is seen towards the practical assessment of the relative importance of varied health risks, not by factor-by-factor approaches but by participatory group evaluation of multiple potential risk.
To ensure participatory steps, it is essential (a) to provide practical advice about ho tho identify environmental, economic and organizational improvements, and (b) to or nine opportunities in which people can actively participate in the planning and impl entation of these improvements based on their.own .j udgement. The role of occu pa ional health personnel should go beyond health and environmental surveillance and be i ome that of advisers and trainers. International cooperation should. provide direct support for action-oriented training and information and for the exchange of positive (experiences in participatory programmes.
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