What is OccWatch?

OccWatch stands for "Occupational Diseases Watch". It is a Sentinel Clinical Watch System dedicated to the highlighting of newly occurring Occupational Diseases (OD). OccWatch is designed for physicians as well as key persons involved in occupational diseases surveillance. This closed application is dedicated to modernet members and their partners, in order to management newly occurring occupational diseases by starting with case-capture, followed by structured comments in order to build progressively a common expertise which will be summarised later, and submitted for approval to OccWatch scientific committee. The accepted conclusion, with "OccWatch stamp", might be further disseminated (level of dissemination according to its public health importance).

This web-based application is a production from the Modernet Cost-Action, a European project which acronym means "Monitoring Occupational Diseases and New Emerging Risks Network".

It is a deliverable from Modernet's Work Package entitled "New techniques for tracing newly occurring occupational diseases" (WP3). OccWatch is one of these tools, along with other techniques developed (data mining of existing databases, etc).

The first version of OccWatch as a pilot is released for Modernet members in autumn 2013. OccWatch sentinel clinical system is powered by the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES), the operator of the French National Network for Work-related Diseases Vigilance and Prevention (RNV3P), which developed for several years a specific approach to handle new work-related diseases.