Occupational disease

Definition and stakes

Law of the People's Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Occupational Diseases (2001)

When a patient of occupational disease goes to work in another unit, the material benefits he enjoys in accordance with law shall remain unchanged.
When the employer is to be separated, merged with others or dissolved, or goes bankrupt, it shall make arrangements for the workers who are engaged in jobs exposed to occupational disease hazards to undergo health checkup and, in accordance with relevant State regulations, make proper arrangements for the occupational disease patients.
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Academy of Political Science in the City of New York The economic position of women (1910)

For protection against occupational disease and its consequences our laws rely upon preventive regulation entirely. No system of protective devices, however, can banish altogether the baneful effect of certain occupations upon the general health and strength of the worker, and it is against these inevitable risks that reliance must be placed upon diminishing the amount of exposure, i. e., reducing the hours of labor. This reduction is, of course, also the only remedy against the specific evil effects upon the human system of overexertion and fatigue.
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Law of the People's Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Occupational Diseases (2001)

Where the illness of a worker is diagnosed as occupational disease, and the employer has not effected the social insurance for industrial injuries, as required by law, the worker's expenses for medical treatment and source of income shall be borne by the final employer; if the final employer has evidence proving that the occupational disease in contracted from hazards in the workplace of the previous employer, they shall be borne by the previous employer.
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