It is an estimated 78 new cases per 100,000 employees, according to the report Occupational diseases in Figures 2020.
Shoulder and elbow disorders are also common. In this category, 31 new cases per 100,000 employees were reported. The figures are highest in construction, industry, energy, financial services, healthcare and social services.
Since March of this year it has been possible to register Covid-19 as an occupational disease. Until August 1, 2020, 732 reports of the coronavirus-caused condition as an occupational disease were made by 118 company doctors. In that period that is about 30 percent of the total number of reports of occupational diseases.
The report was produced by the Netherlands Center for Occupational Diseases, Public and Occupational Health and Amsterdam UMC and provides an overview of the number and nature of registered occupational diseases and the distribution within sectors and occupations in the Netherlands in the past year.
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