Collection Occupational hygiene, Issue 30, 1999 year
Features of occupational morbidity of workers under the influence of biological factors of the working environment
Tsapko V.G., Krasnyuk E.P., Sterenbogen M.Yu.
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Institute of Occupational Health of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev
A number of enterprises with a leading biological factor of the production environment operate in Ukraine. These include factories for microbiological synthesis for the production of antibiotics, feed additives, medicines, amino acids, enzymes, detergents with biologically active additives, protein and vitamin concentrates, etc., feed mills, flour mills, cotton, flax factories, elevators, large livestock and poultry complexes, as well as meat processing plants and fruit and vegetable processing plants. Complex aerosols are determined in the air of the working area of these enterprises, which, depending on the production profile, may include components of plant and animal origin (mold fungi, actinomycetes and bacteria, mycotoxins, etc.) In most cases, biological agents act in combination with a high temperature, low and high humidity, noise and other physical and chemical factors.
Having drawn clinical and hygienic parallels with the influence of biological factors on the body, it can be considered that the main features of the occupational morbidity of these working industries are:
- the prevalence of chronic forms of respiratory pathology with elements of bronchial obstruction;
- changes in the immune status of the organism of workers, due to the presence of protein-containing components in the production environment, the development of allergic forms of pathology;
- the presence of diseases of bacterial and fungal origin in workers.
In order to prevent these diseases, a complex of sanitary-technical, hygienic and treatment-and-prophylactic measures has been developed.