A Study of Dynamic Lung Function Tests in Saw Mill Workers of Bijapur City

Kulkarni, C M; Patil, Sumangala; Gannur, D G; Manjunatha, A. M.

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“…4 Reduction in lung function is reported in cotton mill workers, coal miners, grain and flour mill workers, workers exposed to tobacco, barley and talc and wood dusts, etc. [5][6][7][8] Wood dust (saw dust) is one variety of organic dust, exposure to which is known to cause substantial health impacts. [9][10][11] Saw-mill workers have been reported to exhibit evidence of a variety of clinical manifestation including dry cough, shortness of breath, occupational asthma, wheezing, lung fibrosis, allergic alveolitis, impairment of lung function and chronic obstructive lung disease.…”

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Study of occupational health hazards in sawmill workers in central India

Azmi¹,

Azmi

2020

Int J Adv Med

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Background: Occupational lung diseases are occurring at an increasingly significant level in India and the prevalence is particularly high in sawmill workers. The present study evaluated effects of sawdust on the lung functions of sawmill workers.Methods: In this prevalence study, 50 sawmill workers and equal number of age-sex matched controls were enrolled. Pulmonary function test parameters of all the participants were recorded by spirometry. Relevant comparisons were drawn between the groups.Results: Mean FVC of cases was 3.02±0.68 litres and of controls was 3.39±0.56 litres. Mean FEV1 of cases was 2.28±0.79 litres and of controls was 2.76±0.61 litres. Mean FEV1/FVC ratio of cases was 74.22±12.92% and of controls was 80.81±7.83. Mean PEFR of cases was 6.44±1.45 litres/second and of controls was 7.18±1.15 litres/second. Mean FEF 25-75 % of cases was 3.06±0.83 litres/second and of controls 3.53±0.71 litres/second. All the results were statistically significant (p<0.05).Conclusions: Sawmill workers are more vulnerable to respiratory impairment due to saw-dust exposure in the workplace environment. Efforts are recommended to control the levels of dust to within safe occupational limits.

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Study of occupational health hazards in sawmill workers in central India

Azmi¹,

Azmi

2020

Int J Adv Med

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“…found various respiratory parameters to be significantly reduced in the workers due to long exposure. [ 28 ] Ige OM and Onadeko OB found running nose, sneezing, and productive cough the most frequent pulmonary symptoms. [ 29 ] Exposed workers had more respiratory symptoms and greater risk of airflow obstruction corresponding to the Number of years of employment.…”

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Epidemiological correlates of well being at work place and hazards identification and risk assessment amongst saw mill workers in anand, Gujarat

Sharma

Shah

Singh

2021

Indian J Occup Environ Med

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Context: The nature of the work in saw mills carries a huge risk as the workers are exposed to various life-threatening hazards. Aims: This study was conducted to know the “Work place Wellbeing” of the saw mill workers, occupational Hazards identification and Risk assessment (HIRA) including hazard communication, occupational accidents, injuries and diseases. Settings and Design: The study was a cross sectional study amongst workers of saw mills. Methods and Material: A total of 219 saw mill workers were interviewed. “Work place wellbeing”, was studied by using the “Workplace Wellbeing Questionnaire - Black Dog Institute” which includes four areas of workplace wellbeing viz. (1) Work satisfaction, (2) Organizational respect for the employee, (3) Employer care, and (4) Intrusion of work into private life. Reliability analysis was done and Cronbach's alpha was found. Association was found between the work place wellbeing and other demographic and occupational variables. Statistical Analysis Used: Proportions and Mann–Whitney U test. Results: Scores of all the participants fall in the medium scale for “work satisfaction”. For “respect”, 93.6% fall in the medium scale. In “employer care” 97.7% fall in medium category. All the workers scored in the medium scale for the “intrusion in private life”. None of the scores were in low scale for any domain. Injury as an event was reported by 8.22%. Specific disease prevalence was highest for back ache as 72.1%. Hazard communication was done in 40% workers. Conclusions: We found poor working positions at work place and they did suffer from various medical morbidities at the work place.

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“…Our previous studies have also shown that wood dust exposure results in changes in maximum expiratory pressure in sawmill workers [18] and decrease in dynamic lung functions [19].…”

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Measurement of Wood Dust Particle Size by Optical Microscopy Technique and Long-Term Effect on Sawmill Workers: A Random Study

Kulkarni

Karigoudar

Aithala

2016

Asian J Pharm Clin Res

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Objective: Sawmill workers are exposed to wood dust particles of different sizes, and they cause different respiratory effects depending on the size, physical, and chemical nature of the dust particle and also it is related to the duration of exposure.Introduction: Many studies are done in concern with respiratory effects of wood dust exposure and its toxicity on sawmill workers. Only few studies have been done regarding measurement of particle size. Hence, this study has been undertaken. To measure the size of wood dust particle of sawmills to which the workers are exposed to and also to study significance to the duration of exposure to different sizes of wood dust and effect on long-term exposure.

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A Study of Dynamic Lung Function Tests in Saw Mill Workers of Bijapur City

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Study of occupational health hazards in sawmill workers in central India

Study of occupational health hazards in sawmill workers in central India

Epidemiological correlates of well being at work place and hazards identification and risk assessment amongst saw mill workers in anand, Gujarat

Measurement of Wood Dust Particle Size by Optical Microscopy Technique and Long-Term Effect on Sawmill Workers: A Random Study

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