Collection Occupational hygiene, Issue 29, 1993 year
The influence of working conditions on the development of chronic nonspecific diseases in workers of compound feed production
A. V. Basanets
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Institute of Occupational Medicine, Kiev
Among the numerous branches of agriculture, fodder production is one of the most unfavorable in terms of working conditions.
There are 500 feed mills on the territory of Ukraine, about 50 thousand workers are employed in the main professions in the production of feed.
The results of hygienic studies carried out by employees of the Kiev Institute of Occupational Medicine for the period from 1985 to 1990 showed that the main occupational hazards in feed mills are dust, cooling or heating microclimate and noise. The components of compound feed dust are antibiotics, vitamins, amino acids, hormonal and enzyme preparations, microelements. The concentration of dust in the air of the working area reaches 40-220 mg / m3 at the MPC 4 mg / m3.
The peculiarities of the influence on the organism of workers of a complex of unfavorable production factors at feed mills, as well as the associated high morbidity of workers, leading to disability in active working age, increase the urgency of the problem of studying the features of the revealed pathology. This primarily refers to diseases of the bronchopulmonary system.
Further research will be aimed at clarifying the role of professional factors in the development of chronic bronchitis in workers of this production, determining the characteristics of its development and course in order to develop effective preventive measures.