Course: Occupational health services

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Course title Occupational health services
Course code KPP/PLS
Organizational form of instruction Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Hromada Miroslav, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Occupational medicine and its practical importance: occupational medicine, definitions and history; occupational medicine in an international context. 2. Legislation: international standards, national legislation. 3. Subjects of occupational medical services: provider of occupational medical services, employer, employee. 4. Categorization of work, risk work: obligation to categorize work, risk factors of working conditions, mandatory documentation, employer's obligations, closer definition of individual categories of work. 5. Occupational medical examinations: content, criteria for deadlines and deadlines, types, reimbursement. 6. Occupational medical examinations in special cases: occupational medical examinations of pupils and students, drivers of motor vehicles, medical fitness of firefighters, medical fitness of runway and rail transport operators, operation of rules, aviation regime, medical non-medical staff, persons in service. 7. Judicial care: conditions for issuing a medical report for work, the content of the medical report and the assessment, the preparation and transfer, the legal effects of the assessment, the validity of the assessment and the consequences of invalidity, remedies against medical assessments. 8. Legal consequences of occupational medical examinations and assessments: employee without a valid medical opinion, notice for failure to undergo medical examination, factually or legally defective medical opinion, general medical loss, medical specialty loss, transfer to part-time work quarantine, recommendations of the provider of occupational medical services, documentation overview. 9. Professional medical counseling: content of professional medical counseling, range of services, minimum and total time, training of employees, requirement to optimize work environment ergonomics, cooperation in designing, building or reconstructing workplaces. dealing with emergencies in the workplace. 10. Medical supervision: basic definition, updating of risk assessment, record of performed inspection, Mutual relation of workplace supervision and OSH at all workplaces and employers' facilities. 11. Occupational diseases, endangerment of occupational diseases: procedure for recognition of occupational diseases and endangerment of occupational diseases, types of medical opinions, labor-law consequences of occupational diseases. 12. Control and sanctions: public health protection authorities, labor inspection, overlapping, administrative offenses of occupational health service providers.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Seminar classes
  • Contact hours - 26 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 52 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
basic knowledge of related fields, especially labor law of the Czech Republic is recommended, but it isn´t a condition
Skills
to express clearly and understandably in spoken and written language; to present himself in a suitable way in front of a known or unknown audience; to use professional language; to make hypotheses, to propose solution, to use different methods to solve the problems
Competences
N/A
N/A
learning outcomes
Knowledge
- to remember basic terms from the section of occupational health services that they can apply and use in their future legal practice
- to identify the basic content of occupational health services
- to specify basic generally legal regulations concerning the provision of occupational health services
- to make a timeline of the historical progression of occupational health services
- to apply theoretical knowledge to model situations
- partly to compare different legal regulations concerning this issue in other European countries
- to put into context labor relations and processes concerning the provision of occupational medical services
- to assess the data evolution on the impact of work, the working environment and conditions on the employees´s health and related illness
- to understand the basic importance of occupational medical examination and the consequences of assessment care on the existence labor relations and the influence on the position of employee
Skills
- to analyze the principle of relationships that arise in the section of occupational health services
- to understand the basic application principles within the legal relations arising in the provision of occupational health services in the Czech Republic and the member states of the European Union
- correctly to assess and to interpret the position of subjects and providers of occupational health services
- to propose practical methods and procedures that will be applied by the realization of occupational health services content of the company
- to make basic documentation by the assessment of the employee´s health or job seekers
Competences
N/A
N/A
teaching methods
Knowledge
Seminar classes
Individual study
Discussion
Skills
Seminar classes
Individual study
Discussion
Competences
Seminar
Practicum
assessment methods
Knowledge
Seminar work
Written exam
Oral exam
Skills
Seminar work
Written exam
Oral exam
Competences
Oral exam
Written exam
Seminar work
Recommended literature
  • Vyhláška o pracovnělékařských službách.
  • Zákoník práce.
  • Bělina, Miroslav; Pichrt, Jan. Pracovní právo. 2017. ISBN 978-80-7400-667-8.
  • Brhel, Petr,; Manoušková, Marta; Hrnčíř, Evžen. Pracovní lékařství : základy primární pracovnělékařské péče. Brno : Národní centrum ošetřovatelství a nelékařských zdravotnických oborů, 2005. ISBN 80-7013-414-3.
  • Pichrt, J., Hůrka, P. Povinné vstupní lékařské prohlídky externistů na vysokých školách?. e-pravo.cz, 2013.
  • Šubrt, B., Tuček, M. Pracovnělékařské služby. Anag, 2018.
  • Švábová, K. Vybrané kapitoly z pracovního lékařství. Praha, 2015.
  • Tomšej, Jakub. Pracovnělékařské služby. 2018. ISBN 978-80-7552-955-8.
  • Tuček, M., Pelclová, D., CIkrt, M. Pracovní lékařství pro praxi. Praha, 2018.


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