The operational health protection concerns itself with the long-term effects of the work on the health of the persons employed. A goal is the prevention of work-conditioned health trouble and occupational illnesses (see precaution according to industrial medicine). Health protection and industrial safety belong to the entrepreneur obligations after the industrial safety law and should be co-ordinated in the context of an integrated operational industrial safety management. As close a co-operation between specialist for industrial safety and company doctor as possible is meaningful and advisable therefore.

Relationship prevention

The evaluation of the conditions of work by the company doctor is basis for the health-fair organization of the jobs and operational sequences. Loads by dangerous materials or noise know in this way reduced or completely eliminated, ergonomic factors such as lighting, room climate or job mass can be optimized.

Behavior prevention

The clearing-up over health dangers and learning health-fair behavior belongs likewise to the tasks concerning company doctors. Thus for instance the dangerous material regulation and the bio material regulation plan obligatorily the clearing-up and consultation of the persons employed by the company doctor.

Examples of further measures of behavior prevention are for instance trainings for correct fit, correct carrying (back school) or correct behavior in the traffic (way accident). Significance also offers gain for stress accomplishment and to handling Mobbing. Likewise to it the active nonsmoker protection and offers belong to the smoke curing.

Examples of further measures

• Adornment measures, as more beautiful lighting, new colors and transforming of the tracing area can from work-psychological view to the health protection are counted.
• Operating sport or subsidies to Sportverein/Fitnessstudio
• Driving safety training (also Fahrtraining, since "more relaxed driving" is taught here)
• Grief boxes
• Coworker questionings
• Health circle
• Actions for healthy meal in the Werkskantine

See also

• Operational health promotion
• Company doctor
• Industrial medicine
• Health protection co-ordinator
• Industrial safety
• Precaution according to industrial medicine
• Industrial psychology

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