Strengthening Prevention and Control of Occupational Hazards

Occupational hazards are caused when workers are subjected to toxic or hazardous substances or encounter any of various of unsafe conditions during work that may lead to occupational illness or do harm to health.Occupational risk factors include: various harmful chemical, physical, biological , and other harmful factors that exist in production processes.

Occupational hazards may threaten workers as a group, have a high probability of death or colony, high rate for death or disability or leave effects that are difficult to cure. Hazards may do harm not only to workers' health but also that of their families, or result in instability within the enterprise or region or even incite social conflicts. At present, the issues related to occupational safety have become increasingly prominent and conditions are grim. According to health department statistics, from the foundation of modern China to the end of 2007, the country reported a total of 690,858 cases of occupational disease, 627,405 of which were pneumoconiosis (147,070 cases of deaths, 480,335 cases of prevalence), and total reports of 40,650 cases of occupational poisoning.

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• Internal Recruitment Not a 'Sweet Cake'
• No excuse for Illegal Overtime
• Guaranteeing Employee Protection is the Fundamental Way for Enterprises to get through Difficulties
• "Reason and Logic" Need to be a Priority in Employee Management
• Improving Execution of HR Management Systems