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Summary:
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According to the WHO, occupational health is a field of public health focused on promoting and maintaining the highest levels of physical, mental, and social well-being for workers across all occupations. Achieving this requires tracking and monitoring workers’ health, identifying symptoms related to occupational factors, and providing appropriate diagnoses and treatments. Another critical aspect of occupational health is preventing exposure to occupational hazards that could harm workers’ health. These hazards depend on factors such as the type of work, the level of physical and mental exertion involved, the materials and products used, and the working environment.
To monitor workers’ health and occupational hazards effectively, various IoT devices can be used to monitor health status and workplace environments. The collected data can be stored in the occupational health service platform, to provide occupational health services such as health surveillance, mass immunization, injury management, and mental treatments. A key challenge for the occupational health service platform is providing standardized approaches to manage occupational health data from diverse sources and formats, such as personal health records, health devices, sensors, and other platforms. Moreover, it is essential to ensure the collected data is delivered appropriately to various users including healthcare professionals, health service providers, researchers, labor and safety policymakers, and workers. To address these challenges, the platform should enable the construction and exchange of occupational health data in an interoperable way.
This draft Recommendation outlines frameworks and requirements for occupational health service platforms. These frameworks aim to enhance data collection, processing, privacy protection, and interoperability among data sources and users. The platform supports various occupational health use cases, including monitoring workers’ health, informing policy development, and implementing tailored health programs for workers.
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