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An Occupational Hygiene Team [PDF]

open access: yesOccupational and Environmental Medicine, 1953
Occupational hygiene is the measurement and control of the working environment with the object of safe guarding the health of people at work. Traditionally in Great Britain the two ways of approaching industrial health problems which have developed are those of the industrial medical officer from within the factory and the factory inspector through the
P H, NASH, R J, SHERWOOD, J, BEDFORD
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Chemical Composition of Aerosols of an Electronic Cigarette

open access: yesAerosol and Air Quality Research, 2021
A needle trap sampler (NTS) packed with 60–80-mesh divinylbenzene (DVB) adsorbent inside a 22-gauge stainless steel needle was used as a micro sampling device to extract chemical compounds in electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) aerosol.
Wen-Hsi Cheng   +3 more
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Health-saving technologies in the workplace as individually assessed by employees [PDF]

open access: yesНаука и инновации в медицине
Aim – to study the attitude of employees of various professions to a healthy lifestyle (HLS) and their assessment of the health-saving technologies used in the workplace. Material and methods. 210 workers took part in the survey.
Irina V. Fedotova   +4 more
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Carcinogenic Activity and Risk Assessment of PAHs in Ambient Air: PM10 Particle Fraction and Bulk Deposition

open access: yesToxics, 2023
This paper present seasonal variation in the equivalent concentration (BaPeq) of PAHs in order to assess the potential cancer risk for two different groups of residents via ingestion, dermal contact and inhalation pathways.
Ivana Jakovljević   +3 more
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Physiological and hygienic justification of criterion in vocational aptitude of workers involved in hazardous activities

open access: yesJournal of Education, Health and Sport, 2017
The principal aim of the paper is to make a physiological and hygienic assessmentof the criterion “volume of operative memory” of the nervous system in vocationalaptitude of workers involved in hazardous activities.
V. O. Korobchanskiy, E. V. Grygorian
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Effects of chronic noise on the corticotropin-releasing factor system in the rat hippocampus: relevance to Alzheimer’s disease-like tau hyperphosphorylation

open access: yesEnvironmental Health and Preventive Medicine, 2017
Background Chronic noise exposure has been associated with tau hyperphosphorylation and Alzheimer’s disease (AD)-like pathological changes, but the underlying mechanism is unknown. In this study, we explored the effects of long-term noise exposure on the
Zhihui Gai   +7 more
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An investigation on benefits and future expectation of Industrialised Building System (IBS) implementation in construction practices [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Industrialised Building System (IBS) is well known in many developing countries due to the benefits that can be derived from its applications in construction projects. However, the low percentage of IBS usage may be due to lack of awareness and knowledge
Akasah, Zainal Abidin   +3 more
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Hygiene at Work: An Engineering Perspective on the Development of Hygiene Science

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, 2008
The present article examines the work of contemporary hygiene practitioners. Discussion converges from a broad examination of hygiene at work in our society serving the common good to occupational hygiene in the workplace.
Peter J Pityn
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Association of MnSOD and GPX1 gene polymorphisms with a risk of chronic dust-induced bronchitis

open access: yesБюллетень сибирской медицины, 2023
Aim. To assess the association of the MnSOD (rs4880) and GPX1 (rs1050450) gene polymorphisms with a risk of developing chronic dust-induced bronchitis in workers of the coal mining industry.Materials and methods.
A. G. Zhukova   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

EVALUATION OF PROGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF FUNCTIONAL AND BIOCHEMICAL INDICES FOR HEALTH STATUS ASSESSMENT IN YOUNG PERSONS WORKING IN TUBE-CASTING PLANTS

open access: yesКубанский научный медицинский вестник, 2017
The authors analyzed the changes of functional and biochemical indices in young persons engaged in tube-casting plants and exposed to harmful physical and chemical factors. Some indices were deviated from their normal values 10–60 %.
R. S. RAKHMANOV   +6 more
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