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CISDOC database
| Document ID (ISN) | 25482 |
| CIS number |
76-1443 |
| Year |
1974 |
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| Author(s) |
Gimeno F.G.
National Occupational Safety and Health Programme (Plan nacional de higiene y seguridad en el trabajo), Madrid. |
| Title |
Safety in industrial abattoirs |
| Original title |
La seguridad en los mataderos industriales [in Spanish] |
| Bibliographic information |
I.T.B./364.74 D-2-74 Centro Nacional de Información y Documentación, Servicio Social de Higiene y Seguridad del Trabajo, Instituto Territorial, Barcelona, Spain, 1974. 20p. Illus. |
| Abstract |
This data sheet gives advice on safe working methods in large industrial abattoirs, indicating hazards and preventive measures at each stage of the slaughtering and dressing process: driving of cattle from the pens (injury from horns or pointed objects); stunning (hazards from use of bolt or spike); slaughtering (automatic pistol, humane killer, electrical hazards when using an electrolethaler); bleeding-out; deboning, removal of hair, skinning (injury from knives, electrocution from electric bone saws); scalding (burns); wearing of eye protectors, gloves, metal mesh aprons, etc.; extraction of intestines; zoonosis hazards (anthrax, brucellosis, tetanus, bovine TB, erysipeloid, foot-and-mouth disease). Other aspects covered: adequate lighting; slippery floors, safety footwear; refrigerating plant. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
Spain; meat industry; slaughtering |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
zoonoses; infectious diseases; screw-fed mincers; data sheet; electrical safety; personal protective equipment; mechanical hazards; hand knives |
| Document type |
F - Information notes, codes of practice, standards |
| Subject(s) |
Food, beverage and tobacco industries
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| Browse category(ies) |
Food industry
Bacterial and parasitic diseases
Zoonoses
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