Procedure optimization and realistic option——To evaluate the improvement of efficiency in the new Administration Measures for the Diagnosis and Verification of Occupational Disease / 中国职业医学

ABSTRACT

@#Improving the efficiency of occupational disease diagnosis and verification is conducive to protecting the rights and interests of workers, better realizing the legislative value pursuit of the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Occupational Diseases, and truly demonstrating the spirit of legal fairness and justice. In 2021, the Administration Measures for the Diagnosis and Verification of Occupational Disease was revised and implemented. The working procedures of occupational disease diagnosis are adjusted and optimized, and the efficiency of diagnosis of occupational disease is greatly improved. They include items such as new provisions specifying working time limits; optimize the working mode; the diagnosis of occupational disease attribution applies to presumptive causality is emphasized and the logical thinking of inversion of burden of proof is carried out. However, the work efficiency of occupational disease diagnosis does not make a great breakthrough in quality, mainly manifests in three aspects difficult to confirm labor relationships, raising the threshold of occupational disease diagnosis, the administrative field investigation is empty and the diagnosis of occupational disease is complicated. There are many pre-procedures in occupational disease diagnosis, which restrict the efficiency of diagnosis. In the future, attention needs to be paid to promote the independent work of occupational disease diagnosis institutions, and through the revision of the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Occupational Diseases. Occupational disease diagnosis institutions should be empowered to confirm labor relationship, so as to lower the threshold of diagnosis of occupational disease and maximize the protection of the rights and interests of workers.