Problems of working capacity expertise in patients with hearing loss

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Results of the analytical research are given to justify methods of working capacity expertise in patients with hearing loss. The goal is to provide the successful professional rehabilitation of these workers and minimize the risk of occupational trauma or occupational disease because of harmful occupational factors. Since 2014 hearing loss patients have been allowed to work with many harmful and dangerous factors. Up-to-date laws and regulations have some logical contradictions with controversial interpretation. Some criteria for determination of working capacity in these workers have not been justified from the point of view of the professional risk yet. The paper discusses the need for the optimization of normative acts by the way of exclusion of logical contradictions and incorrect formulations. Today the determination of professional risk for the workers with hearing loss who work in noise and under the action of other harmful occupational factors is topical. According to results of this research the criteria of working capacity expertise for these cases should be revised to prevent health risk and disaster situations. Working capacity expertise in hearing loss patients should be provided by specialists in occupational medicine and labor protection. Individual peculiarities of the disease and prospective work place should be also taken into account.

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Ivan V. Boiko

I.I. Mechnikov North-Western State Medical University

Author for correspondence.
Email: Ivan-Boiko@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4008-7393

MD, PhD, DSci., professor of the  Department of Occupational Medicine of the  I.I. Mechnikov North-Western State Medical University, Saint-Petersburg, 191015, Russian Federation.

e-mail: Ivan-Boiko@yandex.ru

Russian Federation

T. G. Shimanskaya

I.I. Mechnikov North-Western State Medical University

Email: noemail@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2673-6641
Russian Federation

O. N. Andreenko

North-West Public Health Research Center

Email: noemail@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9135-280X
Russian Federation

N. N. Loginova

North-West Public Health Research Center

Email: noemail@neicon.ru
Russian Federation

E. Yu. Okuneva

North-West Public Health Research Center

Email: noemail@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9292-1661
Russian Federation

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