PROCEDURE FOR EMPANELMENT OF DOCTORS FOR UNDERTAKING
MEDICAL EXAMINATION OF DOCK WORKERS UNDER THE
DOCK WORKERS (SAFETY, HEALTH & WELFARE) REGULATIONS,
1990
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I.
Periodicity of Medical Examination (vide Regulation
107, read with Schedule XI of Dock Workers (Safety, Health & Welfare)
Regulations, 1990
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Sl. No. |
Category of dock workers |
Periodicity of medical examination |
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a) |
Drivers/Operators
of lifting appliances & transport equipment and signalers |
i) At the time of initial employment ii)
After illness or injury affecting his/her fitness iii)
Once in every two
years upto the age of 40 years and iv)
Thereafter, once
every year during the service period |
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b) |
All
other dock workers (not covered under para (a) above), |
i)
At the time of
initial employment ii) After
illness or injury affecting his/her illness iii) Once in
every three years upto the age of 40 years, and iv) Thereafter,
once in every two years during the service period |
II.
Eligibility Requirements :
(a)
Qualifications
:
Individuals applying for consideration must possess a MBBS
degree from recognized medical college and should have completed rotating
internship. In addition to the MBBS
degree, they also should possess either Diploma in Industrial Health/Associated
Fellow of Industrial Health Post Graduate qualification recognized by Medical
Council of India/DGFASLI, respectively, or they possess M.D. qualification in
Gen. Med./Chest/PSM. However, they
shall be considered only for places where there are no doctors with Diploma in
Industrial Health/Associated Fellow of Industrial Health qualifications.
(b) Facilities for
conducting Medical Examination :
The individuals and the
Institutions/Hospitals applying for empanelment shall have necessary facilities for undertaking the
following :-
(i)
Recording the details
of history (present, past, personal, family, socio-economic and any other, if
relevant).
(ii)
Occupational History (past and
present with likely hazard to which may be exposed).
(iii)
General, medical physical examination.
(iv)
Systemic medical examination.
(v)
Specific target organ/system examination.
(vi)
Tests : Routine urine examination, CBC
blood examination, blood sugar (both fasting and PP), and ECG, lung function
tests, Audiometry, tests for visual performance (job oriented vision testing),
X-ray, PA Chest (full size)
(vii)
Specific tests, if
needed, to ascertain the fitness of individual for specific job and also to
monitor his occupational health status in future (to be determined keeping in
view the occupational hazard to which the individual is exposed).
III.
Fresh cases for Empanelment of Doctors :
(i)
The application for empanelment is to be submitted to the
headquarters, in prescribed format.
(ii)
A Committee consisting of Deputy Director General
(Headquarters) as Chairman and the Director-in-Charge, Dock Safety along with
respective Deputy Director (Safety) or Assistant Director (Safety) of the
Inspectorates Dock Safety concerned and the Chief Medical Officer or his
representative from the Port Trust hospital/ Dock Labour Board as Members would
examine the application.
(iii)
The above said Committee shall inspect the facilities
available with him and interview the said doctor .
(iv)
Based on the report of the Committee, the case will be
decided at the Headquarters and the doctor would be empanelled, if found
suitable for a period of 3 years.
(i)
The application for renewal of empanelment is to be
submitted to the Headquarters, in prescribed format.
(ii)
The local inspector of dock safety will visit the facilities
owned/hired by the doctor in association with the Chief Medical Officer or his
representative from the Port Trust Hospital / Dock Labour Board and submit an
Inspection Report to the Headquarters, with particular reference to the
maintenance of the existing facilities and status of compliance with any
conditions, set forth earlier.
(iii)
The Headquarters will process the case based on the
inspection report of the local inspector.
(iv)
The empanelment of the doctor is renewed for a period of
three years
(i)
The doctors are required to maintain the details of Medical
Examination of Dock Workers in prescribed format.
(ii)
The doctors shall make available the details of Medical
Examination of Dock Workers in prescribed format to the Employers of dock workers.
(iii)
The doctors shall submit Half Yearly statement to the
Inspector of Dock Safety in prescribed format.
(iv)
The doctors shall also submit details of dock workers found
unfit, in prescribed format.