What is an "occupational health expert"?
"Occupational health experts" refer to occupational health representatives in employers who consciously establish health awareness, actively practice health behaviors, actively participate in health management, are good at spreading health concepts, and have good health influence.

The results of the 2022 "Striving to be an 'Occupational Health Expert'" event organized by the Shaoguan Municipal Health Bureau and the Shaoguan Municipal Federation of Trade Unions have been announced. After departmental recommendations, material reviews, expert evaluations, and other processes, Gu Jun from the Health and Environmental Protection Department of Laya has been listed.

Gu Jun, as a safety management personnel of Guangdong Laya New Chemical Technology Co., Ltd., is mainly responsible for the company's safety production management and occupational health management. He is familiar with the prevention and control of various occupational hazards, strictly abides by the unit's occupational health management system and operating procedures, organizes the formulation of annual occupational health management plans, annual physical examination plans, annual occupational health investment plans, occupational health management systems, and improves safety operating procedures every year. Establish an occupational health management organization and dispatch occupational health management personnel to obtain relevant certificates. Carry out occupational health protection publicity for employees, regularly conduct various safety inspections and emergency drills, and during the tenure, the company has not experienced any suspected occupational diseases or cases of occupational diseases.

The Municipal Health Bureau and the Municipal Federation of Trade Unions jointly stated in a document:

1. It is hoped that the workers who have been awarded the title of "Occupational Health Expert" in Shaoguan City in 2022 will play a leading role in promoting health awareness, practicing healthy behaviors, actively participating in health management, spreading health concepts, widely promoting knowledge of occupational disease prevention and control, promoting employers to strengthen health management, improve the working environment, and enhance the occupational health literacy of workers and the level of occupational health management of employers.
2. All employers in the city should take the activity of striving to become "occupational health experts" as a carrier, focus on strengthening occupational health publicity, education and training, continuously improving the workplace environment and working conditions, enhancing the awareness and literacy of occupational health of workers, effectively ensuring the physical and mental health of workers, establishing and improving the health management system for employers, and promoting the construction of healthy enterprises.

In the future, Laya will continue to fully implement the main responsibility of occupational disease prevention and control work, actively promote the concept of occupational health and knowledge of occupational disease prevention and control, strive to improve the occupational health literacy of workers, effectively protect the occupational health rights and interests of workers, and continuously release positive energy of occupational health.