Abstract

Effects of Occupational Health Nurses and Staff on the Performance of Occupational Health Physicians in the Workplace

Highlights

  • Full-time OHPs attended workplace Occupational Health and Safety Committee meetings more frequently, conducted walk-through inspections more often, and performed all services related to the work environment, working practices, and healthcare more frequently than did part-time OHPs (Table 2A)

  • When we examined only the results for part-time OHPs, more OHP engagement in the workplace was seen when the occupational health nurses (OHNs)/staff helped to process the health check-up data (Table 2C)

  • Our results suggest that the full-time OHPs provided a higher level of service than the part-time OHPs

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Summary

Introduction

Unlike OHPs, there is no requirement under Japanese legislation for workplaces to appoint occupational health nurses (OHNs). 4) to provide sufficient occupational health services, many workplaces employ registered or public health nurses, in addition to an OHP. To implement a program to improve the occupational health services provided by OHPs in the workplace, Number of employees (n=245) < 499. Missing data OHP, occupational health physician we conducted a questionnaire survey of the workplaces of a large company group. We focused on the effect of OHNs and occupational health staff (OHNs/staff) on the degree of active engagement occupational health services (versus medical data handling) of OHPs in the workplace

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