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Document ID (ISN)28871
CIS number 78-550
Year 1977
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Sinicyna E.L.
Title Occupational hygiene in the leather industry
Original title Gigiena truda v koževennoj promyšlennosti [in Russian]
Bibliographic information Izdatel'stvo "Medicina", ul. Nekrasova 10, 192104 Leningrad, USSR, 1977. 151p. Illus. 99 ref. Price: Rbl.1.22.
Abstract Summary of this manual: outline of the technology of leather manufacture; working conditions in tanneries and currying workshops (harmful substances in air, microclimate, noise and vibration, physical workload at different stages in leather working); worker's health status (sickness absenteeism, occupational diseases such as dermatosis, anthrax, Q fever); health engineering (enclosure, automation of processes involving toxic or carcinogenic substances, ventilation and exhaust, noise control, etc.).
Descriptors (primary) leather and fur industries; occupational hygiene
Descriptors (secondary) USSR; occupational diseases; noise; sickness absenteeism; Q fever; anthrax; microclimate; skin diseases; conditions of work; manuals; health engineering; tanning industry; harmful substances
Document type E - Books, reports, proceedings
Subject(s) Leather, fur and footwear
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Bacterial and parasitic diseases
Footwear, leather and fur industry