Modern aspects of the conservation and promotion of health of firefighters

Abstract

On the basis of complex hygienic studies there were determined conditions of the work of firefighters in liquidation of foci of fires at the incipient stage, identified the complex of toxic substances, their quantitative content in the area of the smoke of fires. The analysis of the etiological role of occupational factors in the shaping of the morbidity and the physiological and clinical manifestations, established indices of the risk for occupational and industrial-caused pathology have allowed to substantiate the relationship of a number of nosological forms associated with working conditions of firefighters. There was developed a system of preventive activities for the promotion and preservation of the health of firefighters, as well as a conceptual model for monitoring of working conditions and state of health.