□ Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute (OSHRI, Director General Jang-ho Kim) of Korea Occupational Safety and Health (KOSHA) expanded the analysis precision control items applied to special health examination agencies in order to enhance the analysis capabilities and the reliability of examination result by evaluating the analysis capability of domestic special health examination agencies.

□ For special health examination analysis precision control has been inspected 38 times from 1995 to 2017 and 95% of 98 agencies that participated in the precision control inspection in 2017 received favorable result and were considered appropriate, which confirmed that the biopsy specimen analysis capabilities for special health examination have been maintained at a high level.

○ While “Arsenic in Urine” item was added in the analysis capabilities evaluation in 2016, the special health examination analysis precision control inspection held in February 2017 expanded items from existing 10 items for organic analysis and 5 items for inorganic analysis.

○ “Phenol in Urine” item was one of the new additions, and it is based on its stability and homogeneity proven through the result of the 「Development Standard Specimen (Phenol in Urine) for Biological Exposure Examination」 which was conducted in 2016.

○ The current status of the agencies qualified in the analysis precision control inspection in 2017 is available under Special Health Examination and Pneumoconiosis Health Examination Precision Control [Schedule and Result] menu of OSHRI’s website (http://oshri.kosha.or.kr/bridge?menuId=4916).

□ Meanwhile, the regular training for intensifying the capability of workers conducting analysis in 98 special health examination agencies will be held at the conference room of Daejeon Station on March 28.