The current state of working conditions at metallurgical enterprises of Ukraine

Authors

  • Оксана Вікторівна Орєхова Ukrainian research Institute of industrial medicine Vinogradova str., 40, Kryvyi Rih, Ukraina, 50096, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3526

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15587/2519-4798.2016.79865

Keywords:

metallurgical industry, working conditions, professional risk, preventive arrangements

Abstract

At the modern stage of metallurgical industry development the replacement of old technological equipment and introduction of new technologies is very slow. It generates the series of acute hygienic problems, and the influence of professionally harmful factors of production environment of metallurgical enterprises on workers’ health remains essential despite the sanitary-hygienic arrangements.

Methods of research. The complex studies were carried out and the characteristic of working conditions and labor process at 1230 working places for 2010–2015 years at the main technological processes was given.

Results of research. It was established, that the essential modernization of production, automatization and mechanization of the main technological processes took place, the specific weight of operating professions, in which the observance and management of the process is 48–79 % of the general volume of productive operations, increased. At the same time the significant volume of heavy physical work still remains 28−54 %. The labor conditions and type of labor process in 75 % of workers do not correspond to hygienic norms and are related to the 3 class or to the 4 degree of harmfulness and assessed as harmful and dangerous.

Conclusions. The conditions of labor and working process in metallurgical workshops still remain harmful and dangerous moreover the rates of microclimate and dust concentration are the limiting ones. The received results open the prospects for further scientific researches, directed on the professional risk classification, depending on working conditions and introduction of preventive arrangements, directed on its decrease

Author Biography

Оксана Вікторівна Орєхова, Ukrainian research Institute of industrial medicine Vinogradova str., 40, Kryvyi Rih, Ukraina, 50096

PhD, senior researcher

Laboratory of industrial microclimate and physiology of heat transfer

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2016-10-31

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Орєхова, О. В. (2016). The current state of working conditions at metallurgical enterprises of Ukraine. ScienceRise: Medical Science, (10 (6), 34–39. https://doi.org/10.15587/2519-4798.2016.79865

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No. 10 (6) (2016)

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Medical Science

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