Abstract

BASANTES VACA, Viviana et al. Working out a protocol for occupational health surveillance. Rev.Med.Electrón. [online]. 2017, vol.39, n.2, pp. 188-199. ISSN 1684-1824.

Introduction: a protocol, in general terms, is an agreement between professionals with expertise in a definite theme in which the activities to carry out certain task have been clarified. Objective: to work a protocol out for the occupational health surveillance that could contribute promoting the workers’ physic-mental and social welfare. Materials and Methods: the kinds of research used are exploratory, descriptive and explicative ones. The used empirical methods are bibliographic review, the inductive-deductive scientific method, analysis and synthesis.   Results: the protocol of occupational health surveillance is worked out with its different sub-protocols: Preventive and occupational medicine, Secondary prevention, Industrial hygiene, Industrial security, and Organization, management and control. Conclusions: it is highlighted that working the protocol of occupational health surveillance is a guide for the businessmen of the different organizational aspects and structures that have to be taken into account in the enterprises.

Keywords : protocol; risk factors; occupational health surveillance.

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