Working environment and health status of workers exposing with petrol at Quang Ninh province
- Author:
Chang Ba Nguyen
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
environment
- MeSH:
Health Status;
Petroleum;
manpower
- From:Journal of Preventive Medicine
1999;9(1):35-39
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
A survey on working environment at 35 facilities discovered some types of dusts, harmful factors such as the noise at high level in some working places (94-100 dBA), tiny dusts, over standard petrol gas. 14/760 workers were examined periodically had tetraetyl lead level in urine during 24 hours. Among 54 cases of lead comtanination, the clinical symptoms of arterial blood pressure - pulse accounted for 42,5%; headache, in somia, much sweating on arms and legs were high, 60 cases suffered from occupational skin gray.
