American International Journal of Social Science

The Protection of Workers from the Professional Diseases in the Jordanian Social Security Law
Dr. Ali Ahmed Al-Zubi, Dr. Muhannad Al-Zubi, Dr. Shayma Muhammed Saeed

Abstract
There are a relation between the occupational works and the disease incidences symptoms since a long time and the level cases of occupational disease have increased because of the industrial revolution , the increasing of using chemical and the raw material in the industrial sector. As a result of that the legal protection of workers against these diseases came late. For this purpose the international organizations have paid the attention to this important case, therefore they issue a statements, conventions and recommendations about this matter to help the workers and protecting them from the occupational diseases. This study sheds the lights on the causes of workers protection from the occupational diseases especially after the exist of some occupational diseases which are not cover by medical insurance in the Jordanian social security law in addition of the difficulty and the complexity of adding any disease which could not be covered in the occupational diseases in the future.

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