Occupational injuries cause a large number of personal
injuries, illnesses, or deaths, resulting in a huge
burden of disease, and has become an important global
occupational safety and
health problem.
Developed countries in
Europe and the
United States have provided strong support for
occupational injury prevention and control by establishing continuous and stable
occupational injury surveillance systems. The
occupational injury problem has not attracted enough
attention and concern in
China, with few relevant
research reports, and the current
occupational injury surveillance system is far from perfection. From the perspective of protecting
workers'
occupational health, this
paper analyzed and compared the
classification and scope of
occupational injuries at home and abroad, as well as the status quo of
occupational injury surveillance and assessment, and proposed to set up an
occupational injury surveillance system with multiple
surveillance methods and multiple
data sources that
complement with each other, so as to strengthen the continuity of
surveillance activities, consistency of data formats, and comparability of assessment
indicators. Step by step, we can set up a
surveillance system covering the whole process of
surveillance, assessment, intervention, and evaluation of intervention effects.