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Document ID (ISN)54660
CIS number 90-1539
Year 1987
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Izmerov N.F.
Title Guide to occupational hygiene
Original title Rukovodstvo po gigiene truda [in Russian]
Bibliographic information Izdatel'stvo "Medicina", Petroverigskij per. 6/8, 101000 Moskva, USSR, 1987. Vol.2, 446p. 58 ref. Price: SUR 1.90.
Abstract Second of 2 volumes addressed to industrial physicians, specialists in occupational medicine, plant physicians and other medical personnel. Vol.2 is arranged in 16 chapters devoted to occupational hygiene problems in the following industries: mining; coal-mining (opencast and underground); iron and steel (sintering and iron-ore pellet plants, cakes and by-products, blast-furnace processes, steelmaking, ferroalloy smelting processes etc.); non-ferrous metals (manufacturing of alumina, aluminium, copper, lead, mercury, zinc etc.); machinery (foundry, press forging, heat-treating, machine shops etc.); electronics; chemicals; oil and gas extraction and refining; microbiology; synthetic polymers (plastics, man-made fibers, synthetic rubber, rubber products); construction and building materials; asbestos processing; textiles and light industry (textile, clothing, leather goods, shoe making); wood, pulp and paper, woodworking; printing; work with ionising radiation (nuclear power plants, radioactive sources, x-ray equipment, particle accelerators, etc.).
Descriptors (primary) occupational hygiene; coal mining; machinery industry; USSR; printing industry; chemical industry; radioactive sources; building materials; construction industry; electronics industry; petroleum and natural gas industry; petroleum refining; textile industry; manufacture of textile goods; woodworking industry; pulp and paper industry; plastics industry; iron and steel industry; non-ferrous metal industries; mining industry; asbestos processing industry
Descriptors (secondary) refractories; welding and cutting; aluminium industry; synthetic fibres; ferroalloys; non-ferrous alloys; furnace repairs; forging presses; metal coating; underground work; heat treatment; ore sintering plants; blast furnaces; opencast work; x-ray equipment; unsealed radioactive sources; particle accelerators; nuclear power stations; clothing industry; furniture industry; leather goods industry; coking plants; synthetic rubber industry; shoe industry; foundries; lead industry; sealed radioactive sources
Document type E - Books, reports, proceedings
Country / State or ProvinceUSSR
Subject(s) Medicine, hygiene and first aid
Broad subject area(s) General safety, health and conditions of work
Browse category(ies) Lumber and the woodworking industry
Construction industry and civil engineering
Iron and steel industry
Mining and quarrying
Petroleum and natural gas industry
Chemical industry
Plastics industry
Petrochemical industry
Manufacturing of electrical appliances and equipment
Smelting and refining operations
Metalworking industry
Electronics industry
Printing, photography and photocopying industry
Woodworking industry
Clothing and finished textile products industry
Paper and paper products industry