Evaluating risk of solvents for the worker's health in some producing units and solutions
- Author:
Nguyen Tuong Son
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Health
- MeSH:
Health;
Risk Factors
- From:Journal of Practical Medicine
2005;0(12):16-19
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
The study was carried out on some producing units using much organic solvents such as rubber production, shoe production, wood production, and pesticide production at Bac Ninh, Hai Phong and Ho Chi Minh city to evaluate risk of the solvents for the worker's health and suggest solutions. In these units, the working atmosphere was polluted by many kinds of chemical solvents including many harm chemicals such as benzene, foormon, tricloetan. In some places, temperature, air speed, noise, dusts were under permitted standard. Solvents affected to worker's health: central nervous symptoms, plant nerve, darken skin