The state stipulates that the last week of May every year is the occupational disease prevention publicity week, which is an important legal holiday. The purpose of Occupational Disease Prevention Publicity Week is to strengthen the awareness and knowledge propaganda of occupational disease prevention through publicity and education activities, promote the in-depth development of occupational disease prevention, improve the self-protection awareness and ability of employees, and reduce and prevent the occurrence of occupational diseases. Specific publicity contents include occupational disease prevention policies, laws and regulations, scientific prevention knowledge, etc. Occupational disease refers to diseases caused by work, including various respiratory diseases, skin diseases, poisoning, etc. Occupational diseases do great harm to employees' physical and mental health, and even affect their quality and life span. Therefore, it is of great significance to carry out the publicity week of occupational disease prevention and control and improve the occupational health awareness and ability of employees to promote occupational safety and protect the legitimate rights and interests of workers.
How to prevent occupational diseases? The prevention of occupational diseases needs to start from many aspects, mainly including the following aspects: 1. Enterprises should formulate scientific occupational disease protection measures. 2. Employees should pay attention to the working environment and personal hygiene, wear necessary protective equipment, and abide by work operation procedures. 3. Regular physical examination to detect the risk of illness in time. 4. Improve the occupational health environment and reduce pollution sources.
Occupational disease is a very serious labor relations problem, which will do harm to the health and life safety of workers. Therefore, the annual occupational disease prevention and control publicity week is very important, which can raise people's awareness of occupational disease prevention and control, promote the in-depth development of occupational disease prevention and control, and ensure the health of employees.
Legal basis:
Article 12 of the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on the Prevention and Control of Occupational Diseases The state strengthens the publicity and education of occupational disease prevention and control, enhances the awareness of occupational disease prevention and control, and improves the self-protection ability of employees and their enthusiasm for participating in occupational disease prevention and control. The last week of May every year is the publicity week of occupational disease prevention and control.