In order to further publicize the Occupational Disease Prevention and Control Law of the People's Republic of China and respond to the 17th Occupational Disease Prevention and Control Law Publicity Week in 2019, earnestly protect the occupational health rights and interests of future builders, popularize the knowledge of occupational disease prevention and control, enhance the awareness of occupational disease prevention and control, and raise the awareness of occupational disease hazards among college students who would become the future workers , on May 16 the students of Class 1601, 1701 and 1801 majoring in health inspection and Quarantine of the medical college of jiangsu university jointly carried out the activity of "Promoting the Occupational Disease Prevention and Control methods in the Campus". The event was organized and planned by Professor Wang Qiang, deputy director of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Health Inspection, and was strongly supported by Zhenjiang Center for Disease Control and Prevention and Zhenjiang Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security.
At the event site, the publicity theme of "Healthy China, Occupational Health Peers" was displayed in the form of exhibition boards and leaflets. The knowledge of occupational disease prevention and control was introduced and the inquiries of students on occupational health was answered on the spot. In order to understand college students' awareness of occupational diseases, while publicizing occupational health, students issued a questionnaire on College Students' occupational disease knowledge. According to the preliminary analysis of the results of the survey, it is found that college students generally lack the understanding of occupational diseases and related laws and regulations, especially the occupational hazards of their jobs.
This year marks the seventeenth anniversary of the promulgation and implementation of the Occupational Disease Prevention Law and the first year after the latest revision of the Occupational Disease Prevention Law at the end of 2018. The current statutory occupational diseases in China include 10 categories and 132 kinds. Nowadays, the incidence of occupational diseases is still high, occupational hazards are widely distributed, dust, noise and vibration, heavy metals such as lead, mercury, organic solvents, toxic gases and other occupational hazards exist in many industries, many people are exposed to them; occupational diseases have high prevalence amongst the youths and the disease conditions are serious; acute poisoning occurs frequently, malignant incidents increase and deaths increase; traditional occupational diseases are not effectively controlled. New occupational hazards have emerged. Health inspection and quarantine major is the "eye" of health promotion and disease prevention and control. It is the only major of preventive medicine in our school. In the aspect of occupational disease prevention and control, it mainly undertakes the monitoring and evaluation of the health status in the workplace, formulates and revises the occupational health standards and regulations, and plays an important role in promoting occupational health. This Occupational Health Campus Activity is beneficial to helping students to grasp the general knowledge of occupational health, enhance the awareness of occupational disease protection, and protect their health-related rights and interests.
