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7 DANGEROUS AND HARMFUL INDUSTRIAL FACTORS.
OCCUPATIONAL DUST. METEOROLOGICAL
CONDITIONS

7.1 General Provisions

Occupational hygiene is the branch of preventive medicine which develops
scientific fundamentals and practical measures for ensuring the improvement of work
conditions in order to preserve employees’ health and high level of workability and to
prevent occupational injuries, diseases, and others work-related negative
consequence.
Industrial sanitation is a complex of measures aimed at enhancement of work
conditions, elimination of harmful factors and occupational disease prevention, which
raises productivity and efficiency and production quality.
The industrial environment is the totality of physical, chemical, biological and
social factors that affect the employee.
The working place is the space up to 2 m above the ground or platform on
which are permanent or temporary whereabouts of workers.
Permanent whereabouts (place) of workers - is the place where the employee
is greater portion (50% or more than 2 hours continuously) of their time.
Maximum permissible (allowable) concentration - is a concentration that in
their daily work (excluding weekends) for 8 hours (no more than 41 hours per week)
does not lead to disease or abnormalities in health and have no impact on future
generations (ГОСТ 12.1.005- 88).
The microclimate of industrial premises - meteorological conditions of the
internal environment of the premises, which are determined by a combination:
- Temperature
- Humidity
- Air velocity,
- Thermal radiation acting on the human body.

7.2 Classification of Dangerous and Harmful Industrial Factors

The classification of industrial hazardous and harmful factors is carried out in
accordance with ГОСТ 12.0.003-74 ССБТ. Hazardous and harmful industrial factors.
Classification.

Hazardous and harmful production factors by nature of action are divided into
the following groups:
 physical;
 chemical;
 biological;
 psychophysiological.

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