Four Chinese departments have jointly released a draft revision on China's 2002 List of Occupation Diseases. Currently on a 30-day public consultation till 18 Feb 2013, the revised list has added 17 new occupational diseases and adjusted the categories and/or titles of 16 occupational diseases. One disease category is deleted. In all, about 130 diseases will be included in the revised catalogue.
Among the newly added, 12 diseases are related to chemical factors, such as lung diseases caused by metal compound dust and irritant chemicals, “occupational chemical intoxication” concerning chloracetic acid and ethylene oxide, and “bladder cancer caused by Beta naphthylamine exposure” under the category of “occupational tumor”, etc. A full table of the 17 new occupational diseases can be seen as below:
序号 SN | 职业病分类 Occupational Category | 职业病名称 Occupational disease | Notes 说明 |
1 | 职业性尘肺病及其他呼吸系统疾病 Occupational dust lung diseases and other respiratory diseases | 金属及其化合物粉尘肺沉着病（锡、铁、锑、钡及其化合物等） Siderosis caused by metal or metal compounds (such as tin, iron, antimony, barium, etc.) | 新增 New |
2 | 刺激性化学物所致慢性阻塞性肺疾病 Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases caused by irritant chemicals | 新增 New | |
3 | 硬金属肺病（钨、钛、钴等） Hard metal lung diseases (caused by tungsten, titanium and cobalt, etc.) | 新增 New | |
4 | 职业性皮肤病 Occupational skin diseases | 白斑 Leukasmus | 新增 New |
5 | 职业性耳鼻喉口腔疾病 Occupational otolaryngological and stomatological diseases | 爆震聋 Blast exposure hearing damage | 新增 New |
6 | 职业性化学中毒 Occupational chemical intoxication | 铟及其化合物中毒 Intoxication of indium and its compounds | 新增 New |
7 | 溴丙烷中毒 Intoxication of 1-bromopropane | 新增 New | |
8 | 碘甲烷中毒 Intoxication of iodomethane | 新增 New | |
9 | 氯乙酸中毒 Intoxication of chloracetic acid | 新增 New | |
10 | 环氧乙烷中毒 intoxication of ethylene oxide | 新增 New | |
11 | 物理因素所致职业病 Occupational diseases caused by physical factors | 激光所致眼（角膜、晶状体、视网膜）灼伤 Ocular burns (such as to corneal, eye lens or retina) caused by laser light | 新增 New |
12 | 冻伤 Frostbite | 新增 New | |
13 | 职业性传染病 Occupational infectious diseases | 医护人员因职业暴露感染艾滋病 Aids infection to medical personnel caused by occupation exposure | 新增 New |
14 | 职业性肿瘤 Occupational tumors | 毛沸石所致肺癌、胸膜间皮瘤 Lung cancer, pleural endotheliomas caused by erionite | 新增 New |
15 | 煤焦油、煤焦油沥青、石油沥青所致皮肤癌 Skin cancer caused by coal tar, coal tar pitch and asphalt | 新增 New | |
16 | β-萘胺所致膀胱癌 Bladder cancer caused by Beta naphthylamine exposure | 新增 New | |
17 | 双氯甲醚所致肺癌 Lung cancer caused by bisenther | 新增 New |
The 2002 List of Occupational Diseases which was promulgated by the Ministry of Health and the former Ministry of Labor and Social Security in accordance with China’s highest law on occupational disease control, the Prevention and Control Law of Occupational Diseases of People’s Republic of China was published on 27 Oct 2001. At the end of 2011, China revised the 2001 Law on occupation disease prevention and control to make itadaptable to demands of the new situation where a soaring social economy coincides with the relatively weak healthy rights entitled to social labors. In this background, four ministries - MOH, SAWS, MHRSS and ACFTU – launched the revision work on the 2002 List in January 2012 and hereby completed the draft proposal after one year’s time.
The revised List will be titled as “Catalogue on the Classification and Category of Occupational Diseases”, in which the ten categories from the original catalogue will remain but the names of three categories will be modified to some extent. Considering the overwhelming proportion of dust lungs in China’s occupational diseases while trying to taking into account other respiratory disease, the new catalogue has changed the term for dust lungs in the old list into “occupational dust lung diseases and other respiratory diseases”. In order to keep naming consistent, the category of “occupational intoxication” is changed to “occupational chemical intoxication”; and the category “occupational diseases caused by biological factors” to “occupational infectious diseases”.
More detailed information on the revision and consultation of the Catalogue can be referred to a fact sheet attached with the draft Catalogue published on the SAWS webpage.
