Netherlands Center for Occupational Diseases, Coronel Institute on Work and Health, AMC/University of Amsterdam, PO Box 22660, 1100 DD Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
Centre for Environment and Health, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium, IDEWE, External Service for Prevention and Protection at Work, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium.
Occup Med (Lond). 2015 Nov;65(8):638-41. doi: 10.1093/occmed/kqv061. Epub 2015 May 14.
Changes in work and working conditions continuously give rise to new work-related health risks. Without sufficient knowledge of these, opportunities for prevention and intervention may be missed.
To develop, implement and evaluate an online tool called SIGNAAL for reporting and assessment of new work-related health risks by occupational health physicians and experts in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Development and implementation of SIGNAAL to allow both easy and sufficient detailed reporting by occupational health physicians and structured and transparent assessment by occupational health experts. A new work-related health risk is defined as a work-related disease due to specific exposure in a specific work setting not described in the literature before.
The online reporting and assessment tool proved to be a feasible means of reporting possible new combinations of health problems and exposures in the work situation. Eleven of the 15 cases reported until October 2014 were fully assessed: one was an entirely new work-related disease, four were known but uncommon work-related diseases, five were known but new in the reported work situation and one was a well-known work-related disease.
An online reporting system used in an occupational health setting can provide insight into new work-related health risks by creating a structured way to gather, report and assess new combinations of health problems and exposure in the workplace.
工作和工作条件的变化不断带来新的与工作相关的健康风险。如果对此缺乏足够的了解，可能会错过预防和干预的机会。
开发、实施和评估一种名为“SIGNAAL”的在线工具，用于报告和评估荷兰和比利时的职业健康医生和专家新的与工作相关的健康风险。
开发和实施“SIGNAAL”，使职业健康医生能够轻松、充分地详细报告，并使职业健康专家能够进行结构化和透明的评估。新的与工作相关的健康风险被定义为由于特定暴露在特定工作环境中而导致的以前文献中未描述的工作相关疾病。
在线报告和评估工具被证明是一种可行的方法，可以报告工作环境中可能出现的新的健康问题和暴露的组合。截至 2014 年 10 月，报告的 15 个案例中有 11 个得到了全面评估：一个是全新的与工作相关的疾病，四个是已知但不常见的与工作相关的疾病，五个是已知但在报告的工作环境中是新的，一个是众所周知的与工作相关的疾病。
在职业健康环境中使用在线报告系统可以通过创建一种结构化的方式来收集、报告和评估工作场所中健康问题和暴露的新组合，从而洞察新的与工作相关的健康风险。
