Risk measurament of the staff occupied in chemical weapons destruction facilities

Abstract

A comprehensive staff study at the chemical weapons destruction plants found that the staff involved in first-class hazard operations are exposed to adverse changes in the psychophysiological condition manifested in vascular control system stress, reduced reserve capacities of the cardiovascular system, exercise testing tolerance, reduced sensormotor response, and lower indicators of self-health assessments, Those changes result in high health risks and require a personalized action plan to the improvement of psychophysiological condition. Described below is a method of determination of the indications for an action plan to improve psychophysiological condition of employees after a work shift. Keywords: occupational health, chemical weapon destruction workers, psychophysiological condition, riskmetriс of health, personalized labor medicine.Workers involved in chemical weapon destruction (CW destruction) are exposed to a hazardous and dangerous working environment. Labor safety here is ensured by mitigating measures -personal protection equipment, as well as the 'time protection' principle [4, 16].Labor conditions at CW destruction plants such as mandatory use of personal protection equipment, high emotional load related to responsibility for the personal and group safety, high physical load, etc. -are considered health risk factors [5,18]. This is documented by a 1.5-2.5 times higher primary disease incidence among the CW destruction staff (based on the number of hospital referrals as compared to the areas covered by protection measures) [2,3,8,9]. For this reason, studies aimed at determining health risk factors among the CW destruction staff are essential for the activities aimed at health maintenance among the representatives of this profession [7, 9, 11 ,13].The purpose of the research is to study health risk factors among the CW destruction staff related to changes in the psychophysiological condition during a work shift.