Functions and Positions of Corporate Occupational Health Managers in Company-wide Occupational Health Management —An Interview Study with the Corporate Occupational Health Managers—

Mori, Koji; Nagata, Tomohisa; Kajiki, Shigeyuki; Hino, Yoshiyuki; Nagata, Michio

doi:10.1539/sangyoeisei.b12012

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“…The companies established a system to train occupational physicians, supported their acquisition of expertise, gave them greater responsibility, and followed their development within the company. According to one study, companies that appoint experienced occupational physicians as supervising occupational physicians aim to secure qualified occupational physicians; they also aim to ensure stable, quality-assured occupational health services consistent with company or corporate group policy 3) . All the supervising occupational physicians interviewed in the present investigation were at companies with similar goals and were attempting to address issues to secure human resources.…”

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“…The Industrial Safety and Health Act requires that employers establish an occupational health management system at each workplace 2) . In recent years, however, increasing numbers of companies have assigned a supervising occupational physician 3) to provide occupational health services that are consistent across the entire company (or corporate group) and to appoint occupational physicians at each workplace. Those companies have…”

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Corporate career support for full-time occupational physicians

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Objectives: This study aimed to identify career support systems for full-time occupational physicians in large companies in Japan with an established company-wide occupational health system. Methods: We conducted interviews with the supervising occupational physicians of target companies selected using the snowball sampling method and that met the inclusion criteria: (1) a company or corporate group with over 10,000 workers; (2) an assigned occupational physician who oversaw occupational physician services for the entire company; and (3) the company had more than 10 full-time occupational physicians. Results: We obtained responses from eight companies (six manufacturing and two railroad companies). All the companies had established a system to support expertise development of occupational physicians, give them greater responsibility, and follow their development in the company. Through the interviews, efforts of each company were described in the following four areas: (1) efforts of human resource development; (2) support for maintaining and improving expertise; (3) treatment in accordance with career stage; and (4) issues related to career support in companies. Conclusions: To provide high-quality, stable occupational health services to an entire company, it is necessary to create a situation where full-time staff can contribute for a long period and develop their careers in the process.

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Section: Table 3 Issues Related To Career Support For Occupational Ph...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%