NIOSH: Puerto Rico townhall meeting transcript - Centers for ...

manage this.
Actually in Puerto Rico sixty-two percent
of our population is overweight. And this
overweight brings many muscular skeletal
problems that have nothing to do with
occupational environment. But unfortunately
our work environment with the requirements of
register in logs of occupation disease in the
way they are defined does attack and basically
it obliges us to report as ocupational when we
understand that the majority of the cases have
nothing to do with work environment.
In the industry we make “N” gestures with
the doctors and nurses and the safety personnel
to help the employees in programs of weight
management. In exercise programs the gym is
paid for, the gym is provided, many facilities
are provided to help in losing weight because
we understand that obesity is one of the
principal reasons for injuries. But there is
no way to obligate them, it is something
voluntary and in not obligating the employee do
do this program and improve personal health, we
are being greatly impacted in the muscular
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