1. Occupational Medicine in Austria UEMS Meeting Innsbruck 14/04/2012 Christine Klien

2. Who works in occupational medicine in Austria? ca. 1600 general practitioners with diploma OM = 12 weeks OH training at an Akademie für Arbeitsmedizin ca. 110 OM specialists ca. 300 physicians work full time in OM AUVA ( Austrian social insurance for occupational risks) ca. 30 occupational physicians AUVA Sicher (for companies less than 50 employees) ca. 135

3. Austrian employee protection legislation Tasks, functions of occupational physicians in companies companies with more than 50 employees have to involve prevention specialists (occupational physicians, security experts, occupational psychologists and others) companies with less than 50 employees: AUVA Sicher, free of charge

4. Calculation of working time of prevention specialists in companies 1,2 hours for each office worker, 1,5 hours for workers in production, additional 0,5 hours for each person who works nightshift Company with 100 employees (30 with office work, 70 work in the production, 40 of them do nightwork) 160 hours /year prevention specialists, devided 56 OM, 64 security specialist, 40 others

5. occupational physicians work in a company… as employee of the company as employee of a center for OM by service contract with a center by service contract with the company

6. Training of specialists for OM in Austria 2 years common trunk 4 years specialist training including a 12 weeks training at an Akademie für Arbeitsmedizin (2) 14 training places in OM centers (totally 43 OM centers, mostly private or center of an enterprise, few have governmental support) 2 training places at Medical University Vienna, Institute for Occupational Medicine

7. OM at the 4 Austrian medical universities Vienna: Institute for Occupational Medicine head of the Institute Prof. Jasminka Godnic-Cvar 1 senior physician 2 assistant physicians toxicological laboratory no chair for OM and no research in OM at Medical Universities of Graz, Salzburg and Innsbruck!

8. Österreichische Gesellschaft für Arbeitsmedizin ÖGA Austrian Society of Occupational Medicine 600 members 2 - 3 congresses each year congress Bregenz 13 - 16th of March 2013: together with German and Suisse Societies key issue "Occupational Medicine in Europe"