Travel medical consultation
We associate holidays with the most relaxing time of the year, but especially from a health point of view, there can always be unpleasant surprises and incidents that can turn the most beautiful holiday into a horror trip.
If you are planning a stay abroad in the long term, it is advisable to visit your doctor 6 weeks before departure to be able to correct possible gaps in your vaccinations in time. If it is a last-minute trip, the doctor of your choice or a travel medical advice centre should be consulted immediately in order to take all necessary precautions.
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- Your vaccination records
- Information about the trip (duration, itinerary, travel conditions...)
- Medication that needs to be taken regularly
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- Vaccination consultation
- Examination of the vaccination records
- Information about vaccinations prescribed/recommended abroad
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- Advice about hygienic measures in the destination country
- Drinking water hygiene, nutrition, protection against sexually transmitted diseases
- Information about skin and sun protection
- Advice regarding accident risks in road traffic, swimming, diving and mountain accidents
- Information about travel-associated complaints such as fear of flying, travel thrombosis, travel sickness, jet lag
- Information on stress burdens and adaptation disorders in foreign cultures
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- Information on country-specific diseases and their prevention, e.g. malaria (mosquito repellent, malaria prophylaxis)
- Information and behavioural measures for country-specific poisonous animals in the sea and on land (poisonous snakes, jellyfish, etc.)
- Special consideration of topics such as mountaineering at high altitudes or recreational diving
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- Consideration of pre-existing chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and medication
- Allergies
- Pregnancy and ability to travel
- Composition of a travel pharmacy
A competent travel medical consultation is individually tailored to the person as well as the destination and takes time. Some information about current illnesses or epidemics at the destination can be obtained from the Internet, but cannot replace a visit to the doctor.
Customised PSA
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Since 2012, orthopaedic preparations and insoles for safety shoes may only be carried out by orthopaedic shoemakers using special kits.
Once the necessity of orthopaedic safety shoes has been determined by a specialist doctor, an appointment must be made at the AMZ. The medical certificate and findings are to be brought along in any case.
Together with the employee (and, if necessary, the safety specialist), the most suitable model of the available supplier is selected depending on the danger level involved. The relevant order form/ certificate of use for the shoes will be completed by the occupational medical department and the respective company.
With the safety shoe set out in the magazine, the employee visits an orthopaedic shoemaker who then carries out the appropriate preparation.
The costs for the safety shoes including insoles or preparations are covered by the company!
The health insurance company will continue to charge for insoles for private use!
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At workplaces subject to the obligation of wearing safety glasses, the costs for optical safety glasses are covered by the company.
The glasses are adjusted in a consultation during which a suitable model is selected and adapted on the basis of a current prescription for glasses (not older than 6 months) and tailored to the workplace.
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Screen/monitor glasses are visual aids which become necessary for workers from a certain age onwards if the reading glasses (due to "age far-sightedness") are no longer sufficient for screen work and if screen work is generally carried out in accordance with the VDU Work Ordinance (activity combined with data input; longer than 2 hours continuously per working day or at least 3 hours distributed over the whole day).
Only close proximity comfort glasses are ordered via the AMZ, which represent the reading distance in the lower part and the screen distance in the upper part. There is no correction at a distance and this visual aid is only suitable for screen work!
The ordering procedure is the same as for optical safety glasses.