Occupational health in Slovenia

Kovačič, Helena (author)

While considering a two-level approach, in the article we discuss systemic issues related to occupational safety and health (OSH) data. On the individual level, we focus on OSH incidents that indicate the status of occupational health. On the company level, we examine OSH management data that reveal the monitoring system. Our analysis shows that the Slovenian OSH data collection system depends on employers’ reporting rather than on professionals monitoring workers’ health. The OSH system is oriented to legal compliance more than the regular monitoring of OSH activities. The introduction of systemic measures that integrate the various OSH stakeholders and reintegrate occupational medicine into the health system is recommended.

• Language: English
• Keywords: health and safety at work, protection at work, accidents at work, occupational diseases
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 30.05.2023
• Year: 2023
• Number of pages: Str. 136–150, 180
• Numbering: Letn. 60, no. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-146712
• UDC: 331.4(497.4)
• ISSN on article: 0040-3598
• DOI: 10.51936/tip.60.1.136
• COBISS.SI-ID: 154276355
• Publication date in RUL: 08.06.2023

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Teorija in praksa : revija za družbena vprašanja
• Shortened title: Teor. praksa
• Publisher: Fakulteta za družbene vede
• ISSN: 0040-3598
• COBISS.SI-ID: 763652

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Zdravje na delovnem mestu v Sloveniji

Abstract

Članek razpravlja o sistemskih vprašanjih glede podatkov o varnosti in zdravju pri delu (VZD) in pri tem upošteva pristop na dveh nivojih. Na ravni posameznikov analiziramo pojavnost primerov na področju VZD, ki prikazuje zdravstveno stanje zaposlenih v Sloveniji. Na operativni ravni analiziramo podatke o upravljanju sistema VZD in prikažemo sistem spremljanja VZD. Naša analiza pokaže, da v Sloveniji podatki o zdravju delovne populacije temeljijo na odločitvah delodajalcev – namesto na zdravnikih medicine dela, ki spremljajo zdravstveno stanje delavcev. Sistem VZD zasleduje zadoščanje normativnih zahtev namesto rednega spremljanja aktivnosti VZD. Članek predlaga sprejetje sistemskih ukrepov, ki bi povezali ločene akterje na področju VZD in medicino dela znova integrirali v zdravstveni sistem.

• Keywords: zdravje in varnost pri delu, varstvo pri delu, nesreče pri delu, p oklicne bolezni