[Working conditions and health status of workers engaged in the production of zinc compounds]. / Usloviia truda i sostoianie zdorov'ia rabochikh, zaniatykh v proizvodstve soedinenii tsinka.

It was established that industrial shops engaged in zinc compounds' processing were characterized by considerable temperature shifts, relative humidity and air motion changes. In drying and packing shops, concentrations of the final product dusts were established at 0.8-2 mg/m3. The major occupational pathology was constituted by skin and upper respiratory tract diseases, including allergic and contact dermatitis, chronic pharyngitis, tonsillitis and rhinitis. Blood tests revealed B-lymphocytes: increases, circulating immune complexes and considerable levels of lymphocytic spontaneous blastotransformations. Erythrocytic acidic hemolysis was markedly changed, which proved disbalances in the system of red blood.

[The health status of workers engaged in the production of cobalt salts]. / Sostoianie zdorov'ia rabochikh, zaniatykh v proizvodstve solei kobal'ta.

The professional noxae for workers engaged in production of cobalt acetate, chloride, nitrate and sulfate is dust of the final product in the form of aerosol disintegration. The main professional pathology is manifested in hypertrophic defensive processes in the upper respiratory tract, in contact dermatitis, cardiac disorders of different severity grades. Clinico-biochemical investigations revealed a clear increase of the content of urea, rest nitrogen, glucose, cholesterol and electrolytes (sodium and potassium) in the blood.