Objective To control the occupational disease from its sources and to improve the chemical poisoning emergency rescue system.
Methods The basic information of 8 708 chemical enterprises in Jiangsu Province and their present situation of occupational disease prevention and control were investigated and analyzed.
Results There are all together 1,375,760 employees in all investigated enterprises. A major portion as 67.4% of the enterprises are located in Suzhou, Wuxi and Changzhou, whereas 69.9% of the employees are working in Suzhou, Wuxi and Nanjing. Within the 8 708 chemical enterprises, 23.2% have not registered as hazard chemical enterprise, 28% do not have any safety management system and specifications for safety operation, 30% have not provided material safety data sheet(MSDS)to their employees, 31.7% have not provided safety training, 18% do not have any workshop protection facility, 52.3% have not carried out any surveillance, 42.9% have not organized occupational physical examination for their employees, 37.8% do not have any emergency response plan for chemical poisoning accident, and 32.2% do not have any emergency response facility.
Conclusion The chemical enterprises in JiangsuProvince are mianly located in southern Jiangsu. There are some very serious problems in worksite chemical surveillance in these chemical enterprises and in employee's health monitoring, hence there are so much works to do for the improvement.
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