الأمراض المهنية في قانون العمل و التشريعات الاجتماعية

Abstract EN

Work is the place where the individual spends most of his life and during that long period the worker may be exposed to certain circumstances that lead him to contract occupational diseases.

by explaining the concept of occupational diseases, their characteristics and features, with the legal responsibilities for these diseases, and how to prevent them, as well as in order to develop systems responsible for occupational diseases and protect the worker's right to compensation from occupational diseases or protect him from contracting these diseases to ensure a healthy and safe life.

this study has proven the great role of the Iraqi labor law, which it played to protect workers from occupational diseases and compensation for damage compared to the Egyptian, French and Algerian law.

in this study, the researcher believes that the emergence of social security and social insurance systems has become the responsibility for accidents and diseases characterized by a special legal system, in the aspect of the legal basis or in the aspect of compensation, which the legislator and regulation assumed in advance, which makes it arbitrary, and there are no longer opportunity to apply risk liability to public utility permanent associates.