Lee Jiho, Kim Jungwon
Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, Korea.
Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, College of Medicine, Koshin University, Busan, Korea.
J Korean Med Sci. 2014 Jun;29 Suppl(Suppl):S72-7. doi: 10.3346/jkms.2014.29.S.S72. Epub 2014 Jun 13.
The context of specific criteria for the recognition of occupational diseases (ODs) due to physical agents in the Enforcement Decree of the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act (ED-IACIA) and the Labor Standard Act (LSA) does not describe definite disease along with the agents but listed symptoms or obscure clinical conditions. Moreover, the needs for an amendment of these Acts have recently attracted renewed interest. To establish agreed criteria for compensable ODs due to physical agents, we reviewed the criteria for recognizing ODs on the basis of International Labor Organization (ILO) documents and European Union (EU) guideline. After providing a brief review of the history of OD outbreaks due to physical exposure in South Korea and the responses to them, we describe the basis for the recent amendments to the IACI Act and LSA and assess their appropriateness. On the basis of these findings, this study could be helpful for determining and compensating process of ODs. However, further work is required to ascertain the scientific relationship between diseases caused by physical agents and the exposure criteria.
《工业事故赔偿保险法实施令》（ED-IACIA）和《劳动标准法》（LSA）中关于因物理因素导致职业病（ODs）的具体认定标准，并未明确指出与这些因素相关的特定疾病，而是列出了症状或模糊的临床状况。此外，近期人们对修订这些法律的需求再度产生了兴趣。为了确立因物理因素导致的可补偿职业病的统一标准，我们依据国际劳工组织（ILO）文件和欧盟（EU）指南，对职业病的认定标准进行了审查。在简要回顾韩国因物理暴露导致职业病爆发的历史以及应对措施后，我们阐述了近期对《工业事故赔偿保险法》（IACI Act）和《劳动标准法》修订的依据，并评估了其合理性。基于这些研究结果，本研究有助于确定职业病的认定和赔偿程序。然而，还需要进一步的工作来确定物理因素所致疾病与暴露标准之间的科学关系。
