Why do we keep forgetting about occupational hazards? Fake silk: The lethal history of viscose rayon

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 509-514
Author(s):  
Pascal Marichalar
Keyword(s):  
Viscose Rayon ◽  
Occupational Hazards ◽  
History Of

Fake Silk: The Lethal History of Viscose Rayon

Ambix ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-200
Author(s):  
Peter Morris
Keyword(s):  
Viscose Rayon ◽  
History Of

Fake Silk

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul David Blanc
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Carbon Disulfide ◽  
Viscose Rayon ◽  
New Technology ◽  
The Body ◽  
Death Sentence ◽  
Safety Concerns ◽  
History Of ◽  
Body Count

When a new technology makes people ill, how high does the body count have to be before protectives steps are taken? This disturbing book tells a dark story of hazardous manufacturing, poisonous materials, environmental abuses, political machinations, and economics trumping safety concerns. It explores the century-long history of “fake silk” or cellulose viscose, used to produce such products as rayon textiles and tires, cellophane, and everyday kitchen sponges. The book uncovers the grim history of a product that crippled and even served a death sentence to many industry workers while also releasing toxic carbon disulfide into the environment. Viscose, an innovative and lucrative product first introduced in the early twentieth century, quickly became a multinational corporate enterprise. The book investigates the viscose rayon industry's practices from the beginning through two highly profitable world wars, the midcentury export of hazardous manufacturing to developing countries, and the current “greenwashing” of viscose rayon as an eco-friendly product. This book brings to light an industrial hazard whose egregious history ranks with those of asbestos, lead, and mercury.

scholarly journals The Impact Of Occupational Hazards In Workplaces - Maintenance, A Main Target For Ensuring The Safety Of Working Equipment

2015 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Anca Elena Antonov ◽  
Georgeta Buica ◽  
Doru Costin Darabont ◽  
Constantin Beiu
Keyword(s):  
Service Use ◽  
Occupational Hazards ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
Software Model ◽  
Efficient Management ◽  
Main Target ◽  
History Of ◽  
Environmental Requirements ◽  
Maintenance Activities ◽  
The Impact

Abstract For use of work equipment having the economic performance and the highest level of safety, it must be ensured that it complies with the conditions set by the manufacturer in terms of putting into service, use and maintenance operations, ensuring appropriate technical and environmental requirements, including appropriate measures and means of protection. The research aimed to identify and analyze the occupational hazards associated to maintenance operations, in terms of the history of the adjustments, maintenance, cleaning and repair, including the case that occur after the incidents, capital repairs and upgrades. The results of the research consisted in the development of recommendations on the effective management of maintenance activities of work equipment and a software model to enable an efficient management of maintenance, as a tool for occupational hazards in companies - premise for increasing the competitiveness of employers in the market economy.

scholarly journals Pathology and occupational health in open-hearth and rolling shops. Edited by prof. E. M. Kogan and Dr. I. Ya. Shtrum. Ukrainian State Institute of Occupational Pathology and Hygiene (formerly the Institute of Occupational Medicine). Stalin's branch. Stalin's Publishing House "Dictatorship of Labor". 1928 465 pp. 1928 465 pages. "Proceedings and Materials" of the Institute. Issue VII

1929 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 451-453
Author(s):  
M. M. Gran
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Occupational Medicine ◽  
Occupational Diseases ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Open Hearth ◽  
Occupational Hazards ◽  
Central State ◽  
State Institute ◽  
Social Pathology ◽  
History Of

Edited by prof. E. M. Kogan and Dr. I. Ya. Shtrum. Ukrainian State Institute of Occupational Pathology and Hygiene (formerly the Institute of Occupational Medicine). Stalin's branch. Stalin. Publishing house "Dictatorship of Labor". 1928 465 pages. "Proceedings and Materials" of the Institute. Issue Vii. This January marked the 5th anniversary of the existence of the "Ukrainian State Institute of Pathology and Occupational Health" (until 1928, it was called the "Ukrainian Institute of Working Medicine"). This jubilee, modest in time, was solemnly celebrated. This institute, like a number of similar institutes, is the "brainchild of Soviet medicine". This is a new type of research institutes, born of the October Revolution, dedicated to the study of the problem of labor along the lines of "occupational pathology" and "occupational hazards". In the USSR we now have a whole network of similar institutions in the capital and large industrial centers (Moscow 4 institutes, Leningrad, Kharkov with several branches in Ukraine, Sverdlovsk, Rostov n / A, Baku); in a wide - on a predominantly industrial periphery - we have up to 30 similar small institutes under various names - "offices and laboratories for the study of occupational pathology", "offices of social pathology", "occupational dispensaries", etc. The history of all these institutes is a little more than 5 years; the first and "oldest" in this short history is the Institute. Butt in Moscow to serve Moscow and the Moscow province; the first "Clinic of Social and Occupational Diseases" was the Clinic of the 1st MGU (now the Central State Institute for the Study of Occupational Diseases). The Ukrainian Institute is also one of the "oldest" ones. All these institutes already have an interesting and rich chronicle of scientific research searches and works. This is evidenced by the history of the Ukrainian Institute. This is evidenced by the VII scientific collection, devoted to one of our most important industries - metallurgical, one of the most difficult areas - the study of "pathology and occupational health in open-hearth and rolling shops". These workshops, as you know, are the most difficult and difficult in terms of working conditions, and are burdened with the greatest "occupational hazards and occupational pathology."

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