Health risk assessment for welders (retrospective study)

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Дәйексөз келтіру

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Аннотация

Introduction. A significant variety of exposure to harmful production factors of the welding process makes it difficult to assess the risk to the health of workers. Health risk assessment is an urgent task for the prevention of occupational and work-related diseases in welders.

Objective. The objective of the work is to assess the health risk based on data on the incidence in welders at a modern industrial enterprise with varying intensity of exposure to factors of the working environment and the labour process.

Materials and methods. Hygienic studies of the factors of the working environment and health risk assessment were carried out on the basis of 4 workshops of a large enterprise in 2007–2016.

Results. Priority classes of diseases according to ICD-10 in welders and locksmiths at a large industrial enterprise have been established. The calculation and assessment of the relative health risk were carried out according to the data of the medical and sanitary part of the enterprise on the temporary disability of employees, depending on age and work experience.

Limitations. The study is limited to a retrospective risk assessment based on data from the electronic database of the enterprise for a 10-year period, taking into account cases of the disease according to ICD-10 in workers of two occupational groups exposed to welding aerosol to varying degrees.

Conclusions. Health risk assessment for several forms of diseases can be a sensitive and informative indicator under conditions of varying intensity of exposure to production factors.

Compliance with ethical standards. This study does not require the conclusion of a biomedical ethics committee or other documents.

Contribution:
Plekhanov V.P. — the concept and design of the study, statistical processing, writing the text;
Kir’yanova M.N., Markova O.L. — collection and processing of material, writing the text, editing.
All authors are responsible for the integrity of all parts of the manuscript and approval of the manuscript final version.

Conflict of interest. The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Acknowledgement. The study had no sponsorship.

Received: April 28, 2023 / Accepted: June 7, 2023 / Published: September 9, 2023

Авторлар туралы

Vladimir Plekhanov

North-West Public Health Research Center

Хат алмасуға жауапты Автор.
Email: wplekhanov@bk.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8141-7179

Researcher, North-West Public Health Research Center; Saint-Petersburg, 191036, Russian Federation.

e-mail: wplekhanov@bk.ru

Ресей

Marina Kir’Yanova

North-West Public Health Research Center

Email: noemail@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9037-0301
Ресей

Olga Markova

North-West Public Health Research Center

Email: noemail@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4727-7950
Ресей

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