| Document ID (ISN) | 31664 |
| CIS number |
79-1152 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
1775-8785 - Archives des maladies professionnelles |
| Year |
1978 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Title |
Occupational accidents and diseases in the pottery, porcelain and chinaware industry |
| Original title |
Maladies professionnelles et accidents du travail dans l'industrie de la céramique. [in French] |
| Bibliographic information |
Dec. 1978, Vol.39, No.12, p.721-739. Illus. |
| Abstract |
A number of short papers presented at a session of the French Occupational Medicine and Hygiene Society on 3 Apr. 1978, covering the following themes, are reproduced: health status of personnel of the Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (France), particularly during the Second Empire period; ergonomic study of various jobs (burnishing, painting, lathe operation, shaping and throwing) at the Sèvres Manufactory (awkward or harmful postures); occupational accidents and diseases in the pottery, porcelain and chinaware industry (list of toxic substances used, accident and disease statistics for the period 1970-1975); pneumoconiosis in the pottery industry (16 case studies; trends in recorded dust levels (1950-1974), showing very high levels in the mining and quarrying sectors and in the preparation of raw materials); apnoea with effort in pottery lathe operators. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
occupational accidents; pottery industry; occupational diseases |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
case study; France; work posture; pneumoconiosis; toxic substances; history; pottery shaping; statistics; ergonomic evaluation; conference; respirable dust |
| Document type |
- |
| Subject(s) |
Materials, glass and ceramics
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| Broad subject area(s) |
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| Browse category(ies) |
Glass, pottery and related materials
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