Can an onboarding medical check-up replace a pre-employment medical check-up?
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The company operates in the chemical industry, where there are occupational health hazards. Previously, the company’s onboarding physical examinations were used as pre-employment health checks for occupational health purposes. However, recently it has been required that new employees undergo another pre-employment occupational health examination in addition to the onboarding physical examination. Is this necessary, or are there specific requirements outlined in relevant regulations?
You can’t apply a one-size-fits-all approach! Appropriate pre-employment health checks for occupational health should be arranged based on the company’s identified \"positions with occupational health hazards\"; different types of occupational health checks are required for positions exposed to various hazards (such as those involving chemicals, noise, dust, radiation, etc.), while positions not exposed to such hazards only require an entry-level health check.
The contents of pre-employment health checks and those for occupational hazards are also different
Could you please point out what laws, regulations, rules, and standards address this issue?
1. Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Occupational Diseases； 2. “Specifications for the Assessment of Occupational Disease Hazards in Construction Projects” ； 3. “Catalogue of Classification of Occupational Disease Hazard Factors” ； 4. **Occupational health standards ......**
According to the \"Classification Catalog of Occupational Disease Hazard Factors\" issued by the Health Law Supervision Department under document No. 63 [2002], occupational disease hazard factors are classified into: dusts, chemical substances, physical factors, biological factors, hazard factors that cause occupational skin diseases, hazard factors that cause occupational eye diseases, hazard factors that cause occupational ear, nose, throat, and oral diseases, hazard factors related to occupational tumors, and other occupational disease hazards, etc. These occupational disease hazards need to be identified and reported by enterprises based on different job positions, and various preventive and control measures must be taken to address them; it is not appropriate to treat all occupational diseases in a generic manner just because the enterprise is in the chemical industry.