IMHA-Research self-rated health risk factors at sea - multicenter project/the employers´responsibilities for health and safety for port workers are listed here

The WHO guidelines include among other issues these

 * Port employers should make necessary arrangements to provide for:
 * regular surveillance of the working environment, in addition to health surveillance as defined by national law and practice;
 * adequate and competent supervision of work and working practices.
 * If not  carrying  out  the  port  work  themselves,  they  should  cooperate  with  the  bodies  and
 * persons that  are  doing  so  in  order  to  ensure  that  the  prescribed  OSH  measures  are  given the appropriate effect.

Questions to be asked

 * 1) Number of employees on average more or less in each main Port area and total Port workers?
 * 2) Number of working hours per year per person on average?
 * 3) What was the annual incidence rate of work non-fatal injuries 2000-2010 and fatal incidence rate?
 * 4) What is the annual incidence rate of work non-fatal injuries 2011-2017 and fatal incidence?
 * 5) Do you have any estimate of the under-reporting of non-fatal and fatal accidents ?
 * 6) Do the port authorities and the employers comply with their obligations to offer training, etc. ?
 * 7) Are all workers offered safety training regularly ?
 * 8) Are all managers, safety council members, office workers, administrative staff, authorities, offered training?
 * 9) Do you use an electronic reporting system for accidents, injuries and near miss in the ports?
 * 10) What is your definition of severity for obligatory accident report, f.eks 1 day off from work?
 * 11) Do the workers get financial compensation for lost work capacity?
 * 12) Do you have a mapping of the port working areas and job-types to be used in the reporting system?
 * 13) Do you use health questionnaires regularly f.ex on musculoskeletal complaints?
 * 14) Are the self-rated health indicators in the questionnaires validated for bias?
 * 15) Are workers offered regular medical examinations – results?
 * 16) Do the occupational physicians use electronic pt. records?
 * 17) Are the occup. physicians familiar with the working processes and the risks?
 * 18) Are the injury and health data analysed and used for the port workers and administrators´ risk prevention?
 * 19) Are all the updated results available for all staff?
 * 20) Do you make objective measurements of hazardous exposures – of diesel particles or grain dust for example - results?
 * 21) Are all the reported data available for learning in the training courses?