Medical and hygienic aspects of occupational safety and health personnel at chemical weapons destruction plants
The comparative sanitary assessment of working conditions of chemical weapons destruction plants' personnel was made in 2008-2014. For the first time the dynamic indicators of the personnel's health at chemical weapons storage and destruction plants were studied in complex, based on medical examinations results before and after working shift, on results of periodic medical examinations, results of thorough medical examinations with a whole set of biochemical, immunological, psycho-physiological analyses, studying endocrine profile, cancer-specific markers, determination of arsenic content in biological media. The expertise was carried out of cause-and-effect relationship between the pathology identified and complicated cases of health status as for the ability to continue work in harmful and dangerous conditions for workers with the pathology identified. Hospital examination of workers belonging to «risk group» was made in the Occupational Pathology Department of the Pathology Center of the Effect of Extremely Hazardous Chemical Factors on Human Body and Long-Term Effects of the Effects (Volgograd City).