Comparative analysis of the occupational health risk according to data of special evaluation of working conditions and workplace inspection

Cover Page

Cite item

Full Text

Abstract

A comparative analysis of occupational health risk based on special evaluation of working conditions (SEWC), workplace inspection as well as medical and biological criteria (realized risk) showed occupational hazards to be underestimated during special evaluation of working conditions and the predicted risk (estimated using the SEWC technique) fail to correspond to the realized occupational risk. As a rule, the realized risk due to the exposure to chemicals, predominantly fibrogenic aerosols, the noise was higher than the risk predicted by using the Size-exclusion chromatography (SEWC) technique. Both the distorted reality of working conditions, inadequate real occupational risk assessment leads to the incomplete information for occupational disease identification, establishment of the causality for health conditions, as well lower quality and efficiency of measures aimed at the improvement of working conditions and preservation of employees’ health.

About the authors

Oleg F. Rosly

Ekaterinburg Medical Research Center for Prophylaxis and Health Protection of Industrial Workers, Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing

Author for correspondence.
Email: roslyof@ymrc.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9437-856X

MD, PhD, DSci., Head of Occupational Medicine Department of the Ekaterinburg Medical Research Center for Prophylaxis and Health Protection of Industrial Workers, Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing, Ekaterinburg,  620014, Russian Federation.

e-mail: roslyof@ymrc.ru

Russian Federation

Anna A. Fedoruk

Ekaterinburg Medical Research Center for Prophylaxis and Health Protection of Industrial Workers, Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing

Email: annaf@ymrc.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6354-0827

Канд. мед. наук, вед. науч. сотр., зав. лаб. факторов профессионального риска ФБУН ЕМНЦ ПОЗРПП Роспотребнадзора, 620014, Екатеринбург.

e-mail: annaf@ymrc.ru

Russian Federation

Olga G. Drugova

Ekaterinburg Medical Research Center for Prophylaxis and Health Protection of Industrial Workers, Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing

Email: noemail@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3419-4352
Russian Federation

Edvard G. Plotko

Ekaterinburg Medical Research Center for Prophylaxis and Health Protection of Industrial Workers, Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing

Email: noemail@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3031-2625
Russian Federation

A. P. Boyarsky

Ekaterinburg Medical Research Center for Prophylaxis and Health Protection of Industrial Workers, Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing

Email: noemail@neicon.ru
Russian Federation

References

  1. Abdrakhimov Yu.R., Nagumanov M.M., Shangareev R.R. Special evaluation of working conditions as the basis for occupational risk assessment system. In: Proceedings of the International Scientific and Technical Conference: Modern Technologies in Oil and Gas Industry 2014. Vol 2 [Sovremennye tekhnologii v neftegazovom dele – 2014: Sbornik trudov mezhdunarodnoy nauchno-tekhnicheskoy konferentsii. Tom 2]. Ufa: Arkaim; 2014: 3-7. (in Russian)
  2. Mikhaylov A.N. The issues of occupational hygiene and copper smeltery workers’ health and public health risk assessment in the area: Diss. Orenburg; 2005. (in Russian)
  3. Gaponov V.L., Khabarova N.Ya., Gaponov S.V. Special evaluation of working conditions as an essential mechanism of risk identification. Novaya nauka: Sovremennoe sostoyanie i puti razvitiya. 2016; (12-4): 54-60. (in Russian)
  4. Gurvich, V.B., Roslyy O.F., Fedoruk A.A., Ruzakov V.O., Gazimova V.G. Some issues regarding the implementation of the law on special evaluation of working conditions. In: VII All-Russian Research-to-Practice Conference with International Participation: Current Issues of Safety and Governance of Public Health Risk due to Environmental Exposure. Vol. 1 [Aktual’nye problemy bezopasnosti i analiza riska zdorov’yu naseleniya pri vozdeystvii faktorov sredy obitaniya: Materialy VII Vserossiyskoy nauchno-prakticheskoy konferentsii s mezhdunarodnym uchastiem. Tom 1]. Perm’; 2016: 60-5. (in Russian)
  5. Zav’yalkova E.S. Effect of introduction of assessment of professional risk. Proceedings of the International Research-to Practice Conference: Scientific Support for Implementation of National Programmes for Agroindustrial Sector and Rural Areas [Nauchnoe obespechenie realizatsii gosudarstvennykh programm APK i sel’skikh territoriy: Materialy mezhdunarodnoy nauchno-prakticheskoy konferentsii]. Kurgan; 2017: 562-4. (in Russian)
  6. Lipatov G.Ya., Adrianovskiy V.I., Petrova O.A. Immune state and its correction in metallurgists of сорper and nickel production. Meditsina truda i promyshlennaya ekologiya. 2007; (3): 35-9. (in Russian)
  7. Nikanov A.N., Chashchin V.P. Hygienic assessment of exposure and determination of its value in production of nickel, copper and cobalt at mining and smelting complex in Kola High North. Ekologiya cheloveka. 2008; (10): 9-14. (in Russian)
  8. Yushin V.V., Kamardin A.A. Problems occupational risk assessment based on a special assessment of working conditions. Izvestiya Yugo-Zapadnogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. 2015; (1): 75-81. (in Russian)

Supplementary files

Supplementary Files
Action
1. JATS XML
Download

Copyright (c) 2024 Rosly O.F., Fedoruk A.A., Drugova O.G., Plotko E.G., Boyarsky A.P.


СМИ зарегистрировано Федеральной службой по надзору в сфере связи, информационных технологий и массовых коммуникаций (Роскомнадзор).
Регистрационный номер и дата принятия решения о регистрации СМИ: серия ПИ № ФС 77 - 37884 от 02.10.2009.