Warning: These are the most common occupational diseases - are you also at risk?

An occupational disease can affect almost anyone - be it as a construction worker, forester or nurse.

But which occupational diseases are particularly common?

• Not every disease is an occupational disease.

  It must be recognized as such.

• Around

  80 occupational diseases

  are listed in the Occupational Diseases Ordinance.

• The most common recognized occupational disease is

  noise-induced hearing loss

  .

In Germany, occupational diseases increasingly mean that employees

have to

and receive an occupational disability or disability pension.

For this, however, the disease * must also be recognized as an occupational disease.

What is an occupational disease?

By definition, an occupational disease is an illness that employees suffer from their occupational activity.

This illness must be listed

.

This is what the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs writes on its website.

About 80 diseases are on this list.

It ranges from skin diseases to spinal damage to secondary diseases caused by chemical agents such as mercury or pesticides.

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What are the most common recognized occupational diseases?

Here is an overview of which occupational diseases are recognized particularly frequently:

Source: Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (baua) (status: 2014)

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Occupational diseases: which professions are particularly affected?

Noise-induced hearing loss is by far the most commonly recognized occupational disease (6,649 recognized cases).

According to the Barmer health insurance, it particularly affects

or

workers

.

Those who work with asbestos for work often suffer from asbestosis, a lung disease caused by dust containing asbestos fibers (1,967 cases).

Lung or larynx cancer is also a typical occupational disease in connection with asbestos (834 cases).

Doctors

and

have to expect infectious diseases such as hepatitis or tuberculosis through contact with blood or other body fluids (814).

Allergic respiratory diseases are common among

and

(409 cases), while

and

have to deal with chronic damage to the lumbar spine and knee joints (381 cases).

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