Risk factors of working environment and occupational diseases reported in the Czech Republic in 2017.

By 31st December 2017, 514 093 persons (158 944 of them women, i.e. 30.9 %) in the Czech Republic worked at risk (2R, 3, and 4). Most subjects working at risk were in the Moravian-Silesian region (94 507) even in the relative number per 100 000 inhabitants. In the risk category 3 there were 87.8 % of the workers, 9,6 % were in the risk category 2 and 2.6 % were in the risk category 4. Noise was the most frequent risk factor (39 % of subjects), physical load (16 % of persons), vibration (9 % of persons) and followed by dust (9 % of individuals). In 2017, a total of 1370 occupational diseases (1278 occupational diseases and 92 persons endangered by an occupational disease) were reported. Most occupational diseases were reported for the causal risk factor of physical load and risk factor of vibration, where there is no effective personal protection of the worker and emerging occupational diseases are not captured in time by preventive occupational-medical care. Keywords: job categorization in CZ (the Czech Republic)/2017, work at risk, occupational diseases.