Author/Editor		Dodič-Fikfak, Metoda; Bilban, Marjan; Dšuban, Gabi
Title		The system of occupational health and safety in Slovenia
Type		članek
Source		In: Proceedings of the 16th world congress on safety and health at work; 2002 May 26-31; Vienna. ,
Publication year		2002
Language		eng
Abstract		Health at work has had long tradition in Slovenia, which was based on relatively efficient occupational dispensaries and occupational health services, where primarily medical doctors, specialists in occupational medicine, were employed. They co-operated with safety engineers and the company's management. The idea of occupational health and occupational health services within factory was similar to that of the units of health and safety at work, which were recommended by the ILO Convention 161. The doctrine used to be the domain of the Institute of Occupational Medicine, which included also safety at work (primarily ergonomics and work hygiene). There was no special doctrinaire institution regarding safety at work in the Republic of Slovenia. The deficiency in the old system was poor co-operation of occupational health institutions with the Work Inspectorate and lacking regulation regarding special insurance for health and safety at work. In 1999 and 2000 a PHARE project - Development the Slovenian System of Health and Safety at Work - has been r launched in Slovenia. It has put forward a system which would comply with the demands of the EU and at the same time not call for substantial changes to the present one. The proposal includes only 7 institutions: some of them should be reorganised, still others conceptual changes. For the first time the establishing of the insurance for health and Safety at work has been introduced, to which companies should participate with the contribution rate which would depend on the number of injuries at work and occupational diseases in individual firms. Another new characteristic of the system is a doctrinaire institution, which should be interdisciplinary and independent and not directly linked to clinical professions. The system has not broken through in the establishing of the units for health and safety at work on a regional basis yet. (Abstract truncated at 2000 characters)
Descriptors		OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SAFETY OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE SLOVENIA