[New trends for the occupational health in accordance with the European program]

Abstract

The development of the European schedule of the occupational diseases has the aim to harmonize the data from all Member States. For this purpose European Agency for Safety and Health at work recommends for all the Member States to progressively make their statistics concerning occupational diseases, compatible with European schedule, in order to evaluate the incidence of the recognised occupational diseases and to define quantified criteria for the recognising each occupational disease. The presented data allude to the incidence of the recognised occupational diseases for the first time in 2001, supposed reference year, and to the deaths due to occupational diseases. The used indicators were the number and incidence rate of occupational diseases by sex, age, economic activity, occupation and causative agents, workplaces, exposed professions.