Workplace epidemiological surveillance: Guide to the implantation of collective surveillance by prevention services (2015)
Descripción
The document ?Workplace epidemiological surveillance. Guide to the implantation of collective surveillance by the prevention services? has been created with the aim of offering prevention service professionals proper orientation and instruments for implanting collective surveillance of the health of workers appropriately, universally and homogeneously. In addition, it is an important step for providing a response to the expectations and needs expressed around this subject by the different actors involved in occupational health and safety.
The monitoring of health at work is balanced between to complementary focal points. On the one hand, individualised surveillance, focussing on each worker, and on the other hand, epidemiological surveillance, which extends beyond individual results, in order to assess the repercussions working conditions have not only on the health of individuals, but on the whole group.
This collective assessment of the results provides knowledge on the state of the company?s health and enables us to establish priorities for action in the field of risk prevention, promote the revision of preventative action in accordance with the appearance of injury to the working population and assess the effectiveness of the occupational hazard prevention plan through the evolution of the state of health of the group of workers.
By publishing the document, document ?Workplace epidemiological surveillance. Guide to the implantation of collective surveillance by prevention services?, of Osalan ? Basque Institute of Occupational Health and Safety confirms its commitment to the preparation of technical documents designed for prevention services? personnel, with the goal of promoting the surveillance of collective health as an integral part of companies? preventative activity.