Duty to prevent cancer in high radiation exposure

    

    

Doctors newspaper online, 28.06.2019

    

        
        
        

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A possible compulsory provision for increased UV exposure was on the agenda of the Federal Council on Friday. In the end, the recommendation could not prevail.

Patients who work outdoors a lot also have an increased skin cancer risk due to their intense UV exposure. The check-up is therefore particularly important to them.

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BERLIN. The Federal Council had advised on Friday on a recommendation
    according to which employers should be obligated to compulsorily arrange appropriate check-ups for employees with higher UV exposure.

This addition should be included in the amendment to the Occupational Health Care Regulation (ArbMedVV), following a recommendation from the committee responsible for Labor, Integration and Social Policy.

However, at the Federal Council meeting, the recommendation did not find a majority. The change
    the AbrMedVV was adopted unchanged. It stays that way
    Occupational health care provision that employers make to their employees
    should.

Specifically, this is said to apply to "outdoor activities involving particularly intense exposure to natural UV radiation of regularly three hours or more per day". In addition, occupational health and safety measures should be taken to "minimize the burden of natural UV radiation."

One reason for recommending a precautionary requirement: squamous cell carcinomas, which have been occupational diseases since 2015, represented the second most frequent occupational disease and caused correspondingly high treatment costs.

However: The medical staff for such investigations is already scarce.
    According to ArbMedVV, this check-up may only be performed and certified by physicians with the area designation "occupational medicine" or the additional term "occupational medicine".

According to medical statistics of the German Medical Association in 2018 in Germany 3,519 occupational physicians work. Only 30 percent were younger than 50 years. In addition, 7450 working physicians had the additional name industrial medicine. (DAB)

We updated this post after the debate on June 28, 1919 at 4 pm

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