Professional Documents
Culture Documents
(2012)
person. Industrial process and production factors have a multilateral effect on the
human body.
labor and the working environment on the body of the employee to develop
conditions of work and maintaining a high level of health and working capacity.
diseases);
rationalization of production and equipment, works out hygienic norms and rules
for their inclusion in the sanitary legislation, works out measures of personal
hygiene and also proposals on the rational organization of work and rest.
hygienists F.F. Erisman and A.A. Letavet. Researches of A.A. Letavet in the
concept can be formulated so: capacity for work is a person’s ability to perform
specific work for a long time without decrease in its quality and quantity.
year. However, there is a general patterns of its changes during a shift for various
As a rule, at the beginning of a working day or shift, the capacity for work is
keeps at this level during some time and gradually starts to decrease.
There is the so-called "pre-starting" period, which precedes the work and
functions of an organism gradually reach the optimum level. The duration of this
period is different. The more heavier work & the more impellent activity, the
Later the period of a steady high working capacity follows, during which
etc.), providing performance of work, is established. This period lasts for different
time, approximately from one hour and a half till three hours. Then as a result of
condition of fatigue (sometimes at the end of a shift) the phase of "a final impulse"
The heavier and more intense work, more uninteresting and monotonous, the
of defects.
for any organism if the recreation compensates it. It is established that fatigue can
develop quickly at very hard work (for example, of a loader, a mason) and more
does not restore the initial level of working capacity, because changes in
development.
industrial environment, which in some cases favors work & in another cases renders
measures:
and employees;
pinch).
There are still some professional harmfulness at factories all over the world.
It is caused, first of all, by the fast introduction of new types of energy, chemical
operations in the industry & agriculture. It poses a problem of the detailed study
organism.
organization of work and production, which can serve directly or indirectly as the
health up to death.
during lifting and carrying heavy objects, inconvenient body position, prolonged
Not mechanized work: loading and unloading, repair work, the work of
8) High dust- and gas-pollution of air of a working zone (non-toxic dust). Mining,
driver
function.
diseases.
artificial forages.
voltage.
The term «occupational diseases» has a legislatively - insurance value. The list
have not been included in the list, are not considered to be occupational. Every
doctor should know, that there are not only occupational diseases, but also the
ways:
1. Hygienic standartization
2. Organizational measures
3. Technological measures
4. Sanitary-engineering measures.
5. Therapeutic-and-prophylactic measures.
hours, time of rest, the right to privileges and other legal acts, aimed at
the reduced working day, additional holidays, overalls and individual means of
Technological measures
Sanitary-engineering measures.
industrial environment.
Industrial lighting should also provide the best conditions for the work of
organs of vision of workers, their state of health and promote the increase in labor
productivity.
The clinical examinations & preventive medical examinations are the main
health, that are likely to worsen under the influence of specific industrial
harmfulness.