Geo-ecological assessment of job-related diseases in mono-cities of the Russian Federation

Abstract

Abstract The relevance of the study is due to the importance of the health state and the quality of life among the population in connection with the adverse influence of a number of factors (environment, emission from large enterprises, food quality, and natural resources). In the list of these factors affecting the health of employees working in industrial enterprises, harmful factors of the working environment are very important, the impact of which under certain conditions leads to high morbidity with temporary disability, to the development of work-related diseases. The results of a study investigating the level of work-related morbidity suggest that the number of employees in hazardous and harmful working conditions at industrial enterprises in Magnitogorsk increased to 42.95%. In 2017, the ratio of workplaces of industrial enterprises that do not meet sanitary and hygienic requirements for noise increased; the same variable (ratio) according to the standards of vibration, microclimate, lighting decreased; no deviations were detected in electromagnetic fields (EMF). Chronic work-related pathology in 2017 more often arose due to imperfection of technological processes (36.65% of cases), imperfection of workplaces (30.0%), structural shortcomings of labor facilities (16.65%) and sanitary facilities (6.65%), labour (working) contact with an infectious agent (10.0%). The results of the study can be used to improve programs at the federal and regional levels to improve the environmental situation.