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The services provided by the Health Surveillance Service include:
- Medical assistance for accidents at work, with or without sick leave, including accidents in itinere.
- Consultations for common illnesses or urgent consultations of employees, which appear during working hours.
- Checking of blood pressure.
- Analysis of blood, urine, faeces, exudates, microbiological tests, etc. in relation to consultations that may be made during working hours or those arising from medical check-ups, for which we have the collaboration of the Central Laboratory and Microbiology Laboratory of the University Clinical Hospital.
- Special analyses that allow us to control employees’ exposure to chemical or biological agents in the workplace.
- Spirometry, electrocardiograms, studies to measure vision.
- Dressings and assistance in the case of burns, blows, cuts and minor wounds.
- Administration of injectables (previously prescribed by your doctor with a prescription).
- Collection of anthropometric data.
- Dietary control.
- Removal of wax plugs.
Additional information
It is important to clarify the following terms:
Accident at work
Cases that are considered to be accidents at work:
- Accidents occurring as a result of the tasks performed, even if they are different from the usual ones, carried out in the interest of the good functioning of the company (Art. 115.2c LGSS).
- Accidents suffered at the place and during working time (Art. 115.3 LGSS).
- Accident in itinere: those suffered by the employee on the way to or from work (Art.115.2d LGSS).
- Accidents during missions: suffered by the employee on the journey they have to make in order to carry out their mission, as well as those that occur during their working day.
- Accidents by elected trade union officials: suffered due to or as a consequence of holding an elected trade union or government position in Social Security management bodies (Art. 115.2b LGSS).
- Accidents occurring in acts of rescue when they are connected with work (Art.115.
2d LGSS) - Previous diseases or illnesses: those diseases or illnesses suffered previously, which are manifested or aggravated as a result of an accident at work (Art. 115.2.f LGSS).
- Intercurrent diseases: those that are complications of the pathological process determined by an accident at work. For an illness to be classified as an intercurrent disease, there must be an immediate causal link between the initial accident at work and the illness derived from the pathological process (Art. 115.2.g LGSS).
- Common diseases contracted by the employee in the course of their work, not included in the list of occupational illnesses. The cause-effect relationship between the performance of work and the subsequent onset of the disease must be proven (Art. 115.2 and LGSS).
Occupational disease
Occupational disease is defined in Art. 116 of the General Law on Social Security: "that contracted as a result of work carried out as an employee in the activities specified in the table approved by the provisions for the application and development of this Law, and which is caused by the action of the elements or substances indicated in said table for each occupational disease".
According to this definition, for a disease to be considered occupational, the following elements must be present:
- The work must be carried out " as an employee ".
- That it is a consequence of the activities specified in the table of occupational diseases. This is a limited list, with a closed list of occupational diseases. However, occupational diseases that are not listed may be included in the concept of occupational accident, as established in article 84.2, section Y, of the L.G.S.S., but will not be considered occupational diseases.
- That it is caused by the action of substances or elements that are indicated in the table of occupational diseases for each disease.
- When a causal relationship can be established between occupational exposure and a disease that is not included in the table of occupational diseases, this disease can be legally recognised as an occupational accident (Art. 115, point 2, letter "y" of the L.G.S.S.).
The list of occupational diseases is included in R.D. 1299/2006 of 10 November.
Work-related diseases
These are diseases that, due to their characteristics, cannot be included in the concepts that define an accident at work or an occupational disease Situations such as mobbing, burnout, work-related stress, sick building syndrome, etc., can be extraordinarily harmful for the employee and, in most cases, are considered and covered as a common disease. In some cases, when the employee is able to prove the relationship with their work, it is considered an accident at work.
Health Surveillance Service
- Civil Servants' House
- Avenida das Ciencias, 7, 15782Santiago de Compostela
- 881 814 520
- vixilanciasaude [at] usc.es
Health Surveillance Service
- Edificio Administrativo Intercentros
- Rúa Bernardino Pardo Ouro, s/n. Campus Universitario, 27002Lugo
- 982 823 446
- 982 823 444