Hygienic Assessment of Working Conditions of Employees in the Test Laboratory Center of the Office of Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-Being

Abstract

A comprehensive hygienic assessment of the working conditions of the Test Laboratory Center employees in the «Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology in Primorsky Krai» was executed. Instrumental studies of the air in the working area have been performed, the levels of production noise, general vibration, microclimate parameters, light environment, non-ionizing electromagnetic fields, and radiations have been measured, time-related studies have been carried out to study the severity and intensity of the work process at workplaces in the structural subdivisions of the microbiological laboratory and the Department of sanitary and hygienic laboratory research. The biological factor at the workplaces for employees of the microbiological laboratory was studied. Harmful production factors were identified at the workplaces of the Test Laboratory Center of the office of The Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-Being, and their hygienic assessment was given. Based on the results of the general hygienic assessment the 3rd grade of working conditions of degree 3 was established in the microbiological laboratory and in the Department of sanitary and hygienic laboratory research there was the 3rd grade of working conditions of degree 1.