Meditsina truda i promyshlennaia ekologiia
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The author justified hygienic monitoring of work conditions as a system of scientific and practical knowledge to rank enterprises within an agricultural region according to level of exposure to occupational hazards, to minimize occupational risks. Topicality of the problem lies in defining cause-effect relationships between working environment factors and workers' health in the region of Russian Federation.
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The article covers analysis of work conditions for aluminium plant workers, through workplaces certification. The authors specified work condition classes according to the jeopardy degree. ⋯ Findings are that 60.4% of the occupational diseases are diagnosed among electrolysis workers with average length of service of 26.3 years. Results of the workplaces certification are compared in accordance with work conditions and occupational morbidity parameters.
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Comparative Study
[Evaluating fluorine effects in children of Irkutsk area].
The authors studied connection between exposure to fluorine compounds and fluorides excretion. Average fluorine content of urine and hair samples of children exceeds the reference values. Ambient air and soil pollution with fluorine was proved to be an important health risk factor for urban children in Irkutsk region.
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The authors compared approaches to vibration safety regulations, presented by new Russian Federal governmental standards, international standards and rules from one hand, and by Russian Federal Sanitary Regulation documents from the other hand. Main directions to improve hygienic regulation of occupational vibration in new technical regulation system are determined.
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The author necessitated that requirements on sanitary and epidemiologic safety of life support systems for engine driver cabin (microclimate maintainance system, protection from vibration and noise, illumination, workplace ergonomics, etc) should be included into technical regulations for railway vehicles, both newly constructed and modernized.