[Industrial medical activities of SUVA (Swiss Accident Insurance Agency)].

The group of occupational medicine of the Swiss Accident Insurance Fund (Suva) fulfills functions of standardizing, e.g. setting TLVs, of insurance medicine, i.e. judging cases of occupational disease and, to a great extent, of medical prevention. By means of 100,000 examinations per year and 40 programs, 330,000 employees in 20,000 enterprises are attended. This is not a general provision of public health, but a specific prevention of occupational diseases. The examinations of aptitude at the time of engagement and in periodical controls, help to clarify the fitness for certain dangerous occupations and to detect potential early stages of occupational diseases.