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Occupational Medicine in Austria

Occupational Medicine in Austria. UEMS Meeting Innsbruck 14/04/2012 Christine Klien. Who works in occupational medicine in Austria?. ca. 1600 general practitioners with diploma OM = 12 weeks OH training at an Akademie für Arbeitsmedizin ca. 110 OM specialists

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Occupational Medicine in Austria

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  1. Occupational Medicine in Austria UEMS Meeting Innsbruck 14/04/2012 Christine Klien

  2. Who works in occupational medicine in Austria? • ca. 1600 general practitioners with diploma OM = 12 weeks OH training at an AkademiefürArbeitsmedizin • ca. 110 OM specialists • ca. 300 physicians work full time in OM • AUVA ( Austrian social insurance for occupational risks) ca. 30 occupational physicians • AUVA Sicher (for companies less than 50 employees) ca. 135

  3. Austrian employeeprotectionlegislation • Tasks, functions of occupational physicians in companies • companies with more than 50 employees have to involve prevention specialists (occupational physicians, security experts, occupational psychologists and others) • companies with less than 50 employees: AUVA Sicher, free of charge

  4. Calculationofworking time ofpreventionspecialists in companies • 1,2 hoursforeachofficeworker, 1,5 hoursforworkers in production, additional 0,5 hoursforeachpersonwhoworksnightshift • Company with 100 employees (30 withofficework, 70 work in theproduction, 40 ofthem do nightwork) • 160 hours /year prevention specialists, devided 56 OM, 64 security specialist, 40 others

  5. occupational physicians work in a company… • as employee of the company • as employee of a center for OM • by service contract with a center • by service contract with the company

  6. Training of specialists for OM in Austria • 2 years common trunk • 4  years specialist training including a 12 weeks training at an AkademiefürArbeitsmedizin (2) • 14 training places in OM centers (totally 43 OM centers, mostly private or center of an enterprise, few have governmental support) • 2  training places at Medical  University Vienna,  Institute for Occupational Medicine 

  7. OM atthe 4 Austrian medicaluniversities • Vienna: Institute forOccupationalMedicine • headofthe Institute Prof. Jasminka Godnic-Cvar • 1 seniorphysician • 2 assistantphysicians • toxicologicallaboratory • nochairfor OM andnoresearch in OM atMedical Universitiesof Graz, Salzburg and Innsbruck!

  8. ÖsterreichischeGesellschaftfürArbeitsmedizin ÖGA Austrian Society of Occupational Medicine • 600 members • 2 - 3 congresses each year • congress Bregenz 13 - 16th of March 2013: together with German and Suisse Societies key issue "Occupational Medicine in Europe"

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