Assessment of Health and Safety Services in Health and Safety Centers of Hamadan Province Industries, Iran

Abstract

Background: Attention to worker's health and safety is one of the priorities in health and medical delivery system of Iran. This study was to Assess health, medical and safety activities in Hamadan Province industries having more than 50 workers in 1997 . Methods: The study group was made up of 3377 workers. For collecting data a questionnaire was provided and sent to the subject industries. Health workers were empowered for answering and giving back the questionnaires . Results: The result showed that benefiting from General Physician (GP) as full and part time was 58%. The workers' sharing in periodic examinations was 64% and measure in case of occupational diseases was just 11%. Per capita therapeutic measure was 2.87 and periodic examination was 0.65. Frequency of workers exposed to hazardous factors was 48.8%. Rate of occupational accidents was 10.9%. Mean of safety session in industries was 5.3 in year, activities for controlling the hazardous agents were 62% and just 2.5 health activities have been done in a year. The results showed that 50% of occupational health workers did activities beyond their regular duty. Per capita health and safety services for part time health workers was 2.5 for and for full times was 5.6 in a year, that showed the difference between two groups. Both groups had differences in details of important activities and also portion of safety and health services was negligible to treatment. The portion of treatment was 59.6% and by adding the periodic examinations, the portion of safety and health care remains 12% of total performarlces of occupational health workers in industries . Conclusion: To sum up the results it seems that the safety and health cares in the industries of Hamadan province were not adequate .