Modern chemical factors’ risk and impact management international requirements and their implementation in the system of state sanitary-epidemiologic control

Abstract

The analysis performed of modern trends in chemicals handling and implementation in the RF and abroad showed the understanding that the chemical factor poses an integral hazard to human health and the environment and requires significant conjoint efforts to regulate it as well as the necessity to harmonize domestic regulatory and methodological bases with international requirements; to implement GLP and GHS into the hygiene and preventive toxicology practice; to create and implement a national program in systemic investigations into substances publicly traded on the market in order to withdraw those posing a high risk from circulation and replace them by safer alternatives.

Assessment of occupational health risk for workers employed at contemporary rubber production

“…Among other productions, it includes rubber and plastic products manufacturing. Chemical productions usually involve emitting multi-component chemical admixtures into working area air, as it is well-known in occupational hygiene, and it creates risks for workers' health [1][2][3][4].…”

“…Violation of hygienic standards (concentrations exceeding MPC) was assessed in accordance with the Guide 2.2.2006-05 2 . To assess a priori health risks, we took data obtained via the Specific assessment of working conditions (SAWC) 3 , industrial control procedures accomplished according to SR 1.1.1058-01 4 , and targeted scientific research as well [12]. We assessed occupational risks for specific occupational groups with the same working conditions and used it a basis for assessing group occupational risks.…”

“…Available at: http://www.consultant.ru/document/cons_doc_LAW_158398/ (10.04.2018). 4 hazardous occupational factors; given that, it is necessary to assess not only each occupational disease separately but their combination as well. In such cases, to assess occupational risks, we took an integral parameter for occupational diseases frequency and gravity, a so called occupational diseases index (Iocc) that was a an inverse value of risk category (Cr) and hardness category (Ch); it was an onenumber index that combined Cr and Ch parameters as a probable risk level [13,14].…”