[Occupational medicine outpatient management of shift workers]

Proceeding from the reasons why the amount of multi-shift work has to be increased further, the tasks of works doctors and research work in the field of industrial medicine are pointed out in this paper. The evaluation of 200,000 medical fitness and follow-up examinations annually and the present results of research work give reasons for revising the examination category "shift workers" in the legal regulations of the medical fitness and follow-up examinations which are being revised as well as orienting and concentrating on certain main fields of research.