Date: December 17, 2007 (Monday)
Time: 12:30 – 14:00 (sandwich lunch from 12:30 –12:45; seminar begins at 12:45)
Venue: Seminar Room 6, LG-1/F, Laboratory Block, Faculty of Medicine Building, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong

Abstract:
Occupational health surveillance (OHS) is one of the important measures to protect worker’s health. Since 1950s, medical examination had been performed on workers who were exposed to occupational hazardous substances in China, mainly in state-owner enterprises. While the Law on Prevention and Control of Occupational Diseases was promulgated in this early century, regulations related to OHS (such as Decree on Management of Occupational Health Surveillance and Technical Guidelines on Occupational Health Surveillance) were subsequently issued, and the national notification and report system on occupational diseases were eventually established in 1986. At present, about 3 million workers have taken medical examination each year and the coverage of OHS is about 20%. The OHS in China is still facing many problems due to its economic structure and employment policy reform.

In this seminar, Professor Li will introduce the relative regulations on occupational health surveillance in China, especially about the new issue of The Technical Guidelines on Occupational Health Surveillance. He will also talk about the current situation and the problems of occupational health surveillance as well as to discuss how to improve the OHS in China.

Bio-sketch:
Professor Dehong Li is the Principal Expert of Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. He is also Chairman of both the Chinese Association of Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Diseases and the National Committee for Diagnostic Criteria of Occupational Diseases. He currently holds positions as Vice Chairman of the Asian Association of Occupational Health, Editor-general of the Journal of Industrial Health and Occupational Diseases, and the Deputy Editor-general of the Chinese Journal of Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Diseases.

Professor Li graduated from the School of Public Health at Shanxi Medical University and had undergone training at the postgraduate school of the Chinese Academy of Medical Science. He was a physician of internal and occupational medicine in Jiuquan Steel company Hospital in the Gansu Province before joining the National Institute of Occupational Health in 1981. He has widely published in the Chinese Journal of Industrial Medicine as well as the British Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine.

Registration:
For registration and enquiries, please call Ms Maggie Cheuk at 2819-2841 or email mhrn@hkusua.hku.hk