Vietnam: Summary of cases of occupational disease investigation

08:54, 05/07/2016

This is an important content specified in Circular No. 28/2016/TT-BYT of the Ministry of Health of Vietnam on management of occupational diseases.

According to Circular No. 28/2016/TT-BYT of the Ministry of Health of Vietnam, occupational disease investigation shall be carried out in the following cases:

1. First investigation:

- The investigation is requested by a worker who has not received occupational disease benefits;

- The investigation is requested by the employer;

- There are many cases of acute occupational diseases or many people having a disease at the same time in the same workplace;

- The working environment monitoring result exceeds the permissible limits but no workers are diagnosed with occupational diseases, or working environment monitoring and health checkup for workers are not carried out;

- The investigation is requested by a social insurance authority;

2. Reinvestigation:

- The occupational disease investigation result is appealed against;

- The reinvestigation is requested by a competent authority;

3. Final occupational disease investigation shall be carried out where the result of reinvestigation is appealed against.

Composition of an investigation team can be found in Circular No. 28/2016/TT-BYT of the Ministry of Health of Vietnam, which takes effect from August 15, 2016.

- Thanh Lam -

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