Physical agents and occupational disease compensation: noise, vibration, radiation, and other physical agents.
The context of specific criteria for the recognition of occupational diseases (ODs) due to physical agents in the Enforcement Decree of the Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance Act (ED-IACIA) and the Labor Standard Act (LSA) does not describe definite disease along with the agents but listed symptoms or obscure clinical conditions. Moreover, the needs for an amendment of these Acts have recently attracted renewed interest. To establish agreed criteria for compensable ODs due to physical agents, we reviewed the criteria for recognizing ODs on the basis of International Labor Organization (ILO) documents and European Union (EU) guideline. After providing a brief review of the history of OD outbreaks due to physical exposure in South Korea and the responses to them, we describe the basis for the recent amendments to the IACI Act and LSA and assess their appropriateness. On the basis of these findings, this study could be helpful for determining and compensating process of ODs. However, further work is required to ascertain the scientific relationship between diseases caused by physical agents and the exposure criteria.
['Lee|Jiho|J|0000-0001-8027-835X', 'Kim|Jungwon|J|']
D000062:Accidents, Occupational D006801:Humans D008297:Male D009622:Noise D009784:Occupational Diseases D016273:Occupational Exposure D011832:Radiation Injuries D056910:Republic of Korea D014732:Vibration D014942:Workers' Compensation
Physical Agents Occupational Disease Legislation Recognition Criteria Workers' Compensation