scholarly journals Occupational Health and Safety Measures in German Outpatient Care Services during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 2987
Author(s):  
Mara Shirin Hetzmann ◽  
Natascha Mojtahedzadeh ◽  
Albert Nienhaus ◽  
Volker Harth ◽  
Stefanie Mache
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Outpatient Care ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Work Organisation ◽  
Safety Measures ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Health Threats ◽  
Company Doctor

Due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, outpatient caregivers are exposed to new serious health threats at work. To protect their health, effective occupational health and safety measures (OHSM) are necessary. Outpatient caregivers (n = 15) participated in semi-structured telephone interviews in May/June 2020 (1) to examine the pandemic-related OHSM that have been implemented in their outpatient care services, as well as (2) to identify their corresponding unmet needs. Interviews were recorded, transcribed and analysed by using qualitative content analysis in accordance with Mayring. Available OHSM in outpatient care services described by outpatient caregivers mainly included personal protective equipment (PPE) and surface disinfection means after an initial shortage in the first peak of the pandemic. Further OHSM implied social distancing, increased hygiene regulations and the provision of pandemic-related information by the employer, as well as the possibility to consult a company doctor. Our study revealed that OHSM were largely adapted to the health threats posed by COVID-19, however an optimum has not yet been achieved. There is still a need for improvement in the qualitative and quantitative supply of PPE, as well as on the organisational level, e.g., with regard to the development of pandemic plans or in work organisation.

Company Doctor: Risk, Responsibility, and Corporate Professionalism

ILR Review ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 470
Author(s):  
William J. Sonnenstuhl ◽  
Elaine Draper
Keyword(s):  
Company Doctor

scholarly journals Speech of the general director of the research and design institute for information technology, signaling and telecommunications in railway transportation, the Russian railways company, doctor of engineering I.N. Rosenberg

2019 ◽  
Vol 89 (5) ◽  
pp. 517-518
Author(s):  
И. Н. Розенберг
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Railway Transportation ◽  
Design Institute ◽  
Company Doctor ◽  
Research And Design ◽  
General Director

Speech of the general director of the research and design institute for information technology, signaling and telecommunications in railway transportation, the Russian railways company, doctor of engineering I.N. Rosenberg

Part of the Yellow Dog: U.S. Coal Miners' Opposition to the Company Doctor System, 1936–1946

1989 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 709-720 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Derickson
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Health Benefit ◽  
Extensive Investigation ◽  
Health Benefit Plans ◽  
Coal Miners ◽  
Retirement Fund ◽  
United Mine Workers ◽  
Company Doctor ◽  
Medical Examinations ◽  
United Mine

By the mid-1930s, U.S. coal miners could no longer tolerate company doctors. They objected to the misuse of preemployment and periodic medical examinations and to many other facets of employer-controlled health benefit plans. The rank-and-file movement for reform received critical assistance from the Bureau of Cooperative Medicine, which conducted an extensive investigation of health services in 157 Appalachian communities. This study not only substantiated the workers' indictment of prevailing conditions but illuminated new deficiencies in the quality and availability of hospital and medical care as well. The miners' union curtailed the undemocratic, exploitative system of company doctors and proprietary hospitals by establishing the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund in 1946.

Writing to the company doctor

BMJ ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 281 (6253) ◽  
pp. 1497-1497
Author(s):  
R M. Archibald
Keyword(s):  
Company Doctor
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