Study On The Status And Countermeasures Of Work Injury Prevention In China

As the function of the highest level of work injury insurance,work injury prevention is derived from the development of work injury insurance system.The practice and research in various countries shows that “prevention first” plays an irreplaceable role in fundamentally reducing the occurrence of production safety accidents and occupational diseases,and the manifestation of the prevention function is an important indicator of the maturity of work-related injury insurance.Throughout the world,work injury insurance system has almost completed the transition from a single post-disaster relief system to a Trinitarian occupational safety and comprehensive health care system of work injury prevention,occupational injury rehabilitation and occupational injury compensation.In the 30 years since the reform and opening up,China's industrial injury insurance system has also went through some developmental changes in some aspects including conception of the organizational system,legal system,management system,and treatment levels.However,due to the reasons like lack of awareness of the importance of work injury prevention and the functions of the supervisory departments for work injury prevention are overlapped,and so on,China's work injury insurance is still at the stage of afterward compensation.This article uses document method,data analysis method and comparative study to describe the concepts and theories related to work injury prevention firstly.Then,based on the development and current situation of work injury prevention in Xiaoshan district of Hangzhou,the author summarizes the problems of work injury prevention in China,put forward some specific suggestions learning from the work injury prevention experiences of German,Japan and the United States,combines to the situations in China: that the country should establish and improve the legal system of work injury prevention,standardize and improve the mechanism for work injury prevention,establish and perfect work injury insurance premium rate system scientifically and use the work injury insurance funds rationally.