Employment injury insurance coupled with prevention practices in Germany and Japan and their implications for occupational health prevention initiatives in China
- VernacularTitle:德国和日本工伤保险预防工作及其对我国职业健康预防工作的启示
- Author:
Tengxiao SHAN
1
;
Jiming ZHANG
1
;
Tianyang SHEN
1
;
Zhijun ZHOU
1
Author Information
- Publication Type:Managementandsupervision
- Keywords: workers’ compensation insurance; occupational health; health promotion; health prevention; international experience
- From: Journal of Environmental and Occupational Medicine 2026;43(1):96-101
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
- Abstract: As a primary approach to safeguarding workers' occupational health in China, the work-related injury insurance still has insufficient preventive measures for occupational groups. By reviewing the preventive measures embedded in Germany’s statutory accident insurance (Gesetzliche Unfallversicherung) and Japan’s workers’ accident compensation insurance, this study summarized their best practices and then proposed the following policy directions based on China’s specific context: strengthening the prevention-oriented institutional framework, increasing financial investment in occupational injury prevention, improving the incentive mechanisms of floating premium rate, and promoting data integration and intelligent applications in occupational health management. These measures are expected to shift China’s work-related injury insurance system from a compensation-oriented model to one that emphasizes comprehensive prevention and health promotion, thereby providing useful insights for better safeguarding the health of Chinese workers.
