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KMID : 0381319940330020072
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Korean Journal of Occupational Health
1994 Volume.33 No. 2 p.72 ~ p.75
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Promotion of Practical Apporaches in Occupational Health : International Experience
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Kogi K.
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Abstract
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In occupational safety any health, an increading emphasis is placed internationally on parctical approaches that can lead to concrete, rapid improvements at the workplace. This emphasis is based on the awareness that the reduction of workrealted 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 activeities to varying local needs. special attention is drawn to the three common characteristiics of such practical approaches. they are :(i) establishing a strategy for multifaceted interventions that build on locally achieved improvements: (ii) 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 pracitcal advice about how the identify environmental, economic and organzational improvements, and (b) to organize opportunitits is which people can actively participate in the planning and implimentation of these improvements based on their own judgement. The role of occupational health personnel should go beyond health and environmental surveillance and become that of advisers and trainers. International cooperation should provide direct supprot for action-oriented training and information and for the exchange of positive experiences in participatory programmes.
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