ENVIRONMENTAL AND BIOLOGICAL MONITORING AND SURVEY WORK OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH DIVISION 1988
TABLE 40 WORK OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH DIVISION 1987 AND 1988
TABLE 41
1987
1988
I.
Number of Confirmed Occupational Diseases
I.
Field Survey Work
Asbestos
related disease
Nature of Survey Work
No. of Surveys
No. of Samples
Taken
Beat knee
Compressed air illness
1
(A) GAS, VAPOUR AND MIST MONITORING
Acetone
Compression barotrauma
1
3
Ammonia
Decompression sickness
Air bags (Unknown Compounds)
(a) Type I
136
(b)
Type II
(c) Dysbaric osteonecrosis
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103
Arsine
2
Benzene
Cramp of hand or forearm
Chlorine
Gas poisoning
Inflammation of skin
Radiation injury
Silicosis
168
167
Tenosynovitis of hand or for forearm
10
7
IT.
Occupational Injuries
No. of occupational injuries reported
104 793
110 827
III.
No. of accidents requiring notification
under Employees' Compensation Ordinance
Employees' Compensation Case Work
97 509
103 196
Ethyl acetate
Explosive gas
Formaldehyde Hexane
Hydrocarbon
Hydrogen chloride Hydrogen cyanide Hydrogen fluoride Hydrogen sulphide Freon
Carbon dioxide
Carbon monoxide
7
15
19
13
1
1
2
15
12
3
Chloroform
25
76
Chromic acid mist
26
17
Cyclohexane
3
27
27
Degreasing solvent (unknown)
Diethyl ether
8
B
Esters
5
5
Ethanol
8
8
1
2
13
23
2
1
1
F
L
3
11
3
14
3
1
Iso-propyl alcohol
10
8
Ketones
1
1.
HEK
2
3
Total no. of interviews with injured employees
Cases assessed by Ordinary Assessment Boards#
Cases assessed by Medical Assessment Boards+
220 994
242 396
Methyl mercaptan
1
1
Methylene chloride
4
3
20 046
20 196
MIBK
1
2
+
1
Mixed compounds (charcoal tube method) Nitrogen dioxide
102
178
2
4
Oil mist
11
39
Cases assessed by Special Assessment Boards@
Cases assessed by Prostheses and Surgical
Appliances Boards@
7
5
Oxygen
10
19
685
643
Ozone
Phenol
23
20
Perchloroethylene
17
20
1
2
Sodium meta bisulphite
1
1
# Nursing staff assisted in the preparation and clearance of
cases of Ordinary Assessment Boards.
+ Employees' compensation cases occurring before 1.7.83
assessed by Occupational Health Officers,
@Employees' compensation cases occurring on and after 1.7.83
are assessed by statutory boards with the enactment of the Employees' Compensation (Amendment) Ordinance. Occupational Health Officers sat on Special Assessment Boards and Prostheses and Surgical Appliances Boards.
Sulphuric acid mist
8
14
Styrene
15
40
THF
1,1,1-Trichloroethane
93
Trichloroethylene
60
88
Toluene
83
94
Toluene di-isocyanate
10
11
Vinyl chloride
1
2
Xylene
10
16
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