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Current news in occupational preventive health care services

Publication |
2009

Abstract

The provision of occupational health care services is a complex activity made up of performing preventive occupational health care examinations and drawing medical opinion to working ability, investigation and assessing of occupational diseases, working conditions supervision and skilled consulting service. At present, the Departement of Occupational Health at the University Hospital in Hradec Králové performs the occupational health care services for more than 120 employers (industrial and agricultural companies, educational and health care institutions to the laboratory, research and other work places).

An example of cooperation in the area of the occupational health care services provided for employees by a foreign company, which deals with the production of part for the automobile industry, is outlined. In particular, this deals with the employees on the assembly line who are at risk of local muscle overloading of upper extremities.