Abstract

CANGA ALONSO, Arturo; MALLADA RIVERO, Laura  and  ESPINA ALVAREZ, Carlota. Case-working history at risk management units: An update. Med. segur. trab. [online]. 2009, vol.55, n.217, pp.57-64. ISSN 1989-7790.

A case-working history is a document which contains all the information about workers' surveillance and health control, so it should take in account not only those data which are often collected in a case history, but also the posts and risks the worker could have been exposed to during their working life in order to establish a relationship between cause and effect with the pathology they may present at a given time. It has a multiple usability: epidemiologic analysis, health surveillance and teaching. It should defend no discrimination in general, and particularly to immigrant workers following the guidelines given for health surveillance. The access to the data in a case-working history is established by law. It is not only a confidential document, which should be under the control of health staff, but it is also considered to be a file which should be kept for five years after the worker has resigned, except for those situations in which workers are exposed to special risks.

Keywords : Case- working history; health surveillance; working place; risk labour management; bilingual case-working history; data access; maintenance; preservation.

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