heat ҈ heat ҈ heat ҈! High temperatures are coming! National Health Commission issues a document on health | occupation | high temperature
At present, various parts of the country are entering the hot summer season one after another. In order to strengthen labor protection for high-temperature work and high-temperature weather work, effectively prevent occupational heatstroke incidents, and effectively ensure the physical and mental health and life safety of workers, the General Office of the National Health Commission and the Comprehensive Department of the National Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention jointly issued the Notice on Doing a Good Job in Heatstroke Prevention and Cooling Work for Employers in 2023. Strengthen analysis and judgment, improve work pertinence and initiative
The Notice requires health administrative departments and disease control authorities at all levels to carefully analyze the impact of summer high temperatures on occupational health in the local area, fully study and judge the situation of heatstroke prevention and cooling work in different industries and positions, and develop work measures to address specific issues such as weak grassroots occupational health supervision, weak sense of responsibility among employers, and low self-protection awareness among workers, in order to improve work targeting. We should actively strengthen communication and coordination with departments such as human resources and social security, industry and information technology, ecological environment, housing and urban-rural construction, transportation, and trade union organizations, closely cooperate and cooperate, and collaborate to strengthen heatstroke prevention and cooling work in industries such as construction, metallurgy, casting, transportation, environmental sanitation, express delivery, as well as positions and populations such as furnace workers, outdoor loading and unloading personnel, environmental sanitation workers, and express delivery personnel, in order to improve work initiative.
Pay attention to preventing and improving the working environment and conditions at the source
The Notice emphasizes that health administrative departments and disease control authorities at all levels should timely issue warning information and health reminders based on high-temperature weather conditions, guiding employers and workers to scientifically prevent high-temperature hazards; Urge employers to improve the working environment and conditions, build a clean, hygienic and comfortable healthy environment, carry out knowledge training on heatstroke prevention and cooling, heatstroke first aid, and improve occupational health monitoring, psychological counseling, emergency response and other health services; Strengthen the inspection and guidance of occupational health examination institutions and occupational disease diagnosis institutions, and urge relevant units to improve their business capabilities and service quality for occupational health examinations and diagnosis of occupational heatstroke during high-temperature operations.