Spiritual Connotation
Pursuant to Article 6, Paragraph 2, Clause 2 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act and Article 324-2, Paragraph 2 of the Occupational Safety and Health Facility Rules, Article 10 of the Enforcement Rules of the same Act provides for the establishment of a prevention plan for diseases induced by abnormal workloads to ensure the physical and mental health of relevant workers and to achieve the purpose of worker overwork protection and stress management. Faculty and staff can review their current work conditions and living habits to see if they are experiencing overwork. The school's health center will screen colleagues whose estimated risk of developing brain and cardiovascular diseases within ten years is ≥ 10%, and give priority to providing relevant health education information, health lectures and consulting services.
Service Target
Faculty and students
Online resources
1.Ministry of Labor Work-Life Balance Network
2.Student Affairs Office Community Counseling Center
3.HR Office Staff Assistance Service Area
Ministry of Health and Welfare, National Health Administration, Health 99 website
5.Overwork risk assessment and personal health management system iCare
Health education and advocacy
The so-called "overwork" refers to a state of physical and mental exhaustion, which is a reaction to being under high stress for a long time. The causes of overwork are quite complex, and most studies believe that long-term exposure to work stress is one of the possible causes of overwork. "Death from overwork" is legally known as "acute circulatory system disease caused by occupation", which refers to cerebrovascular disease or heart disease. The determination of death from overwork will no longer be limited by working hours, but will instead be made by occupational disease physicians based on a comprehensive assessment of work patterns and working hours. According to medical experience, the situation in which cerebrovascular and heart disease conditions are objectively determined to have deteriorated significantly beyond the natural course of events is called overload. The reference guidelines for identification are mainly used to prove that workload is the cause of the disease. When it is considered to be excessive workload, the identification is divided into three categories: "abnormal event", "short-term (within 1 week) excessive workload" and "long-term (within 6 months) excessive workload". The Ministry of Labor revised the "Reference Guidelines for the Identification of Occupationally Triggered Cerebrovascular and Cardiac Diseases (Except Those Caused by Traumatic Injuries)" (hereinafter referred to as the Reference Guidelines for the Identification of Overwork), strengthened the explanation of the evaluation and calculation methods of various workloads, and prepared a Q&A collection on the medical perspective of overwork evaluation, identification requirements, the rationality of the identification working hour standards, and the identification methods of working hours, rest time and overtime hours. The relevant content has been published on the website of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
