| Document ID (ISN) | 66834 |
| CIS number |
96-649 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
1250-3274 - Archives des maladies professionnelles et de médecine du travail |
| Year |
1996 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Author(s) |
Mahieu B., Mayer L., Bertrand J.P., Frache A. |
| Title |
Chart of occupational risks relating to the reconstitution of job histories in the Lorraine coal mines |
| Original title |
Cartographie des risques professionnels au service de la reconstitution des carrières aux Houillères du Bassin de Lorraine [in French] |
| Bibliographic information |
Feb. 1996, Vol.57, No.1, p.32-36. 3 ref. |
| Abstract |
Good knowledge of present and past occupational risks and estimation of workers' exposure levels allow improved prevention by occupational physicians. In France, types of work in mines requiring specific medical surveillance are regulated and cover 80% of the employees in the Lorraine coal mines. Occupational physicians have added to this list a few additional risks. To assess occupational exposure levels, two methods are used: 1) collection of occupational hazards through the telematic transmission system of daily staff checking, with automatic and individual recording of single or serial nuisances defined for a work activity; 2) creation of a chart taking into account present and former occupational risks for each worker, representing a real reconstitution of the occupational hazards history based on computerized data of the jobs and a job-exposure matrix resulting from a study of 170 activities (each activity is a job family with the same hazards). Occupational physicians can carry out personal and specific medical surveillance of a worker - or of a group of workers - exposed to detected risks and then select populations presenting the same exposure criteria for the purpose of epidemiological studies. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
anamnesis; hazard evaluation; plant safety and health organization; coal mining; job-exposure relation |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
epidemiological aspects; France; exposure evaluation; mathematical analysis; computer applications; mathematical models; medical supervision; description of technique; mathematical simulation |
| Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
| Country / State or Province | France |
| Subject(s) |
Statistics
|
| Broad subject area(s) |
Occupational medicine, epidemiology
|
| Browse category(ies) |
Risk evaluation
Mining and quarrying
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