Comparison of parameters of biological age of workers in ground and underground conditions in the mining industry

2020 ◽  
pp. 562-563
Author(s):  
O. V. Belomestnova ◽  
E. F. Mishina ◽  
A. F. Fedoruk
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Biological Age

The studies of biological age and behavioral risks in workers employed in ground and underground conditions in the mining industry. According to the data obtained, the value of biological age in the group of underground workers is more influenced by the length of work in harmful working conditions, in the group of ground - the value of the calendar age and lifestyle.

A Double-Blind, Randomised, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Cytisine for Smoking Cessation in Medium-Dependent Workers

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis Vinnikov ◽  
Nurlan Brimkulov ◽  
Aichurek Burjubaeva
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Individual Counseling ◽  
Double Blind ◽  
Randomized Controlled ◽  
High Relapse Rate ◽  
Continuous Abstinence ◽  
Effective Medication

AbstractAmong many studies on cytisine only a few have been controlled trials, and the aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of cytisine in a randomized controlled double-blind trial compared to placebo in medium-dependent smoking men working in mining industry. Materials and methods: 171 middle-aged smokers were randomised to either cytisine (25-days regimen) or placebo; both groups received individual counseling with brochure. Self-reported continuous abstinence was assessed at 8 and 26 weeks. Results: At the end of week 8 there were no differences in number of abstinent subjects, but at 26 weeks 10.6% of subjects were abstinent in cytisine group compared to 1.2% in placebo (p = .01). In both groups, we did not find any weight increase, but quality of life improved in both groups, and physical and social functioning improved in cytisine group. Conclusions: Cytisine may be an effective medication to help smokers quit even for those working in difficult working conditions with high relapse rate.

Working conditions and occupational pathology of Kola Polar miners

2020 ◽  
pp. 456-461
Author(s):  
S. A. Syurin ◽  
S. A. Gorbanev
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Polar Region ◽  
Objective Assessment ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Copper Nickel ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Murmansk Region ◽  
Special Assessment ◽  
Medical Examinations

Introduction. Despite the improvement of mining technologies and personal protective equipment for employees, working conditions in the mining industry create an increased risk of occupational diseases.The aim of the study is to compare the working conditions and features of professional pathology of miners in the production of iron, apatite and copper — nickel ore in the Kola Polar region.Materials and methods. The data of social and hygienic monitoring on the section “Working conditions and occupational morbidity” of the population of the Murmansk region in 2007–2017 were studied.Results. It was found that in 2007–2017, there was no significant improvement in the working conditions of the studied groups of employees of mining enterprises. The structure of professional pathology of miners was still dominated by vibration disease (37.0%), radiculopathy (23.8%), mono-polyneuropathy (15.5%), sensorineural hearing loss (15.5%), and among the etiologically significant harmful industrial factors — the severity of labor (54.1%), general vibration (23.8%) and noise (13.1%). During the observation period, occupational morbidity in the mining of iron and copper-nickel ore decreased significantly, while in the mining of apatite ore it tended to increase. There is no causal relationship between changes in working conditions and the level of occupational morbidity of miners.Conclusions. It is necessary to improve the quality of hygienic and clinical research when conducting a special assessment of working conditions and periodic medical examinations to obtain an objective assessment of occupational health risks for miners in the Kola Polar region.

OBESITY OF THE NORTHERN MINERS: PREVALENCE, RISK FACTORS, CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE

2018 ◽  
pp. 54-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.A. Syurin ◽  
S.A. Gorbanev
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Clinical Significance ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Health Check ◽  
Energy Costs ◽  
Length Of Service ◽  
Copper Nickel ◽  
Healthy Nutrition

A survey of 1,254 miners engaged in mining of copper-nickel ore in the Kola Arctic was conducted with the purpose of identifying the prevalence, risk factors and clinical significance of obesity in this contingent of workers. As a result, obesity was diagnosed in 17 % of the examined persons, more often in women than in men (28.8 % and 16.3 %, p < 0.05). It has been established that the age of the employee and the length of service are the risk factors for developing obesity. On the contrary, there was no evidence of an impact on the obesity development of working conditions in any profession of miners, but the increased severity of labor (class 3.2) reduced the incidence of obesity (18.4 % and 13.9 %, p < 0.02).as well as the severity of labor. It has been shown that obesity increases the risk of developing cardiovascular (RR = 2.03, CI 1.65–2.50), endocrine (RR = 3.63, CI 2.02–6.52), and musculoskeletal (RR = 1.19, CI 1.09–1.30) diseases. The conclusion was made that during the health check-ups and other healthimproving activities it is necessary to pay attention to the issues of healthy nutrition of miners so that it corresponds to the energy costs of labor in modern mining industry.

scholarly journals Fire Risk Assessment and Computer Simulation of Fire Scenario in Underground Mines

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vancho Adjiski ◽  
Zoran Despodov ◽  
Dejan Mirakovski ◽  
Stojance Mijalkovski
Keyword(s):  
Computer Simulation ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Underground Mining ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Employee Training ◽  
Fire Risk ◽  
Underground Mines ◽  
Fire Occurrence ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Loss Of Life

Unsafe working conditions in underground mines have led to a number of accidents, loss of life, damage to property, interruption of production, etc. Safety is essential in mining industry, which in recent years mainly focuses on injury prevention in the workplace through a variety of procedures and employee training. The primary goal of this paper is to present a methodology with systematic analysis to determine the most risky places for fire occurrence in underground mines and using a computer simulation to determine the movement of smoke and fire gases trough underground mining facilities from which depends the safe evacuation of all employees.

scholarly journals Individually-personal factors of pension stress in representatives of the intellectual type of professions

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.N. Berezina ◽  
N.N. Rybtsova ◽  
S.A. Rybtsov ◽  
G.V. Fatianov
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Health Indicators ◽  
Biological Age ◽  
Biological Aging ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Life Path

The article introduces data from the study of the severity of social anxiety caused by the expectation of retirement and subsequent retirement; highlights signs of retirement stress: acceleration of biological aging, the discrepancy of psychological and biological age. It also regards individual-personal factors of biopsychological aging. The article presents the results of an empirical study of the biopsychological age of people – Russians by origin – pursuing intel-lectual professions and living in the European Union and in Russia. All the participants were continuing their research activity and were aged from 32 to 70 years, both living in Russia (n=101, women, 62), and having migrated to the European Union countries (n=101, women 56). Methods of assessing biological age with regard on health indicators, subjective psychological age, as well as the questionnaire of life path were applied. The results showed that in Russian sample the signs of retirement stress are more pronounced: the subjects have an acceleration of biological aging at the age of 51–65 years. The personal strategies for preventing retirement stress and maintaining relative juvenility, typical for the intellectual occupation professionals, were singled out: for men — democratic working conditions, positive attitude, collaborative non-ambitious non-aggressive behaviour; and for women — wellbeing, respectful partnership in the couple, friendly working conditions; multiple changes of place of residence. However, the difference in relative juvenility strategy for residents in Russian and EU was also observed.

NORMALIZATION OF THE TEMPERATURE REGIME UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF THE HEATING MICROCLIMATE OF MINES

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-158
Author(s):  
A.V. Zaitsev ◽  
◽  
D.A. Borodavkin ◽  
I.V. Polyakov ◽  
E.M. Vlasova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Temperature Regime ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Regulatory Documents ◽  
Microclimatic Conditions ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Safe Working

The article presents the results of the analysis of existing approaches to the regula-tion of microclimatic conditions in mines with a heating microclimate in accordance with the regulatory documents in the Russian Federation. The systems for the regulation of microcli-matic conditions in countries with the most developed mining industry are presented. The as-sessment of working conditions by the microclimate factor was carried out and further direc-tions of work to ensure safe working conditions in mines with a heating microclimate were proposed.

Creating a Global Industry?

2018 ◽  
pp. 184-206
Author(s):  
Erik Eklund
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Global Industry ◽  
Industrial Mining ◽  
Traditional Patterns

This chapter, by Erik Eklund, focuses on the gold-mining industry from the middle of the nineteenth century through to the 1930s, with a focus on the role of company formation, working conditions, and state intervention. Utilizing case studies from Canada, South Africa, Ghana, Fiji, and the Australian colony of Victoria, it explores the rise of “industrial mining” over this period. Industrial mining involved larger, more heavily capitalized enterprises, in which workers became wage laborers and owners became shareholders. Industrial mining gendered and racialized the workforce in different ways according to local circumstances, which are explored in each case study. State intervention either underpinned the rise of industrial mining or worked to create uneasy accommodations between industrial work and older traditional patterns of subsistence.

scholarly journals Perspective on the Influence of Leadership on Job Satisfaction and Lower Employee Turnover in the Mineral Industry

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (14) ◽  
pp. 5690
Author(s):  
James K.C. Chen
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Employee Turnover ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Turnover Rate ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Mineral Industry ◽  
Mediation Effects ◽  
Positive Effects

A lower employee turnover rate depends on job satisfaction, working conditions, organizational commitment, and leadership factors. Unfortunately, the employee turnover rate is still higher in the mineral industry than in other industries in China. Although there are many research papers on employee turnover, there is little research investigating leadership factors and their influence on employee turnover. This research paper aims to explore the influence of leadership on job satisfaction and its effect on employee turnover in the mining industry. This paper evaluates those factors through the structural equation model (SEM), including a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and a path analysis of the model to test the hypotheses. The results of a survey with 368 respondents indicated that the influence of good leadership had positive effects on both job satisfaction and employee turnover, while fair working conditions had positive mediation effects on both leadership and job satisfaction. Organizational commitment had strong effects on employee turnover (estimate values β = 0.572, p < 0.001). However, organizational commitment was not a qualified mediator with both leadership and employee turnover (β = 0.312, p < 0.001). Consequently, the working conditions variable in the work environment was an important independent variable and also one of the key factors for job satisfaction. The higher estimate value (β = 0.541, p < 0.001) of leadership to employee turnover means that it indicated good leadership was a key factor in lowering employee turnover. The results of this study will offer the mining industry a future reference for sustainability and for the field of academic research in the future.

scholarly journals Changes in working conditions and character of occupational pathology in enterprise workers in the Arctic

2020 ◽  
Vol 99 (6) ◽  
pp. 575-580
Author(s):  
S. A. Gorbanev ◽  
Sergei A. Syurin
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Russian Arctic ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Chemical Factors ◽  
Changes In Risk ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Low Efficiency

Introduction. Labor in the Arctic is associated with an increased risk of developing occupational diseases.The purpose of the study was to identify changes in risk factors, structure, and prevalence of occupational pathology among employees of enterprises in the Arctic during 2007-2018.Material and methods. The analysis of the data of socio-hygienic monitoring “Working conditions and occupational morbidity” of the Russian Arctic zone population was carried out.Results. 72.6% of workers at enterprises in the Arctic were found to have contact with harmful occupational factors. Within 12 years, the proportion of individuals exposed to noise and chemical factors decreased (p &lt;0.001), while the proportion of those exposed to whole-body vibration, fibrogenic aerosols, and having increased severity of labor increased (p&lt;0.001). In 2007-2018, the number of occupational pathology cases among employees of mining enterprises increased significantly (from 38.8% to 62.8%, p &lt;0.001), while in metallurgical plants-it decreased (from 33.2% to 7.3% (p &lt;0.001). In the structure of occupational pathology, the shares of radiculopathy (p &lt;0.001) and vibration disease (p &lt;0.001) increased due to a decrease in the shares of chronic bronchitis (p &lt;0.001) and mono-polyneuropathy (p &lt;0.001). Also, characteristic features of occupational pathology were an increase in the number of diseases associated with the severity of labor (from 20.7% to 46.9%, p &lt;0.001), diseases diagnosed in one employee (from 1.006 ± 0.004 to 1.396 ± 0.030 cases, p &lt; 0.001) and the number of men among occupational patients (from 87.3% to 94.7%, p &lt;0.001).Conclusion. It is necessary to continue both improve working conditions at enterprises in the Arctic, and study the reasons for the low efficiency of prevention of occupational diseases, caused primarily by increased severity of labor in the mining industry.

scholarly journals Assessment of morbidity with temporary disability of workers in open pit mining of iron ore

2019 ◽  
pp. 18-22
Author(s):  
S.V. Dedunov
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Iron Ore ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Group Structure ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Circulatory System ◽  
Open Pit ◽  
Open Pit Mining ◽  
Control Group ◽  
The Impact

Relevance. Morbidity with temporary disability is an important criterion for assessing the impact of working conditions on the workers ' health. The identification of causal relationships of diseases with working conditions of employees gives the possibility to develop preventive measures to prevent disease and improve the health of employees. Aim. To assess the level and structure of morbidity with temporary disability of workers engaged in the mining of iron ore by open way in the modern mining industry. Materials and Methods. To assess the incidence of workers were analyzed sick leave, reports on the causes of temporary disability. For processing the results of the study used mathematical-statistical methods. The Results of the Study and their Discussion. Level STP is 146,90±7.27 cases (p<0,05), 1617,07±66,61 disability days (p<0,05), the average duration of one case constituted of 11,01±0,34, 1,42 times higher than cases and 1,58 times higher for the disability days than workers in the control group Structure STP: first place is occupied by diseases of the respiratory system (58,54 %) of 69,44±1,21 cases (p<0,05), in second place are illnesses of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (13,04 %) of 15,51±0.86 cases (p<0,05), in third place injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external factors (7,92 %) of 9,42±0,13 cases (p<0,05), the fourth place is occupied by diseases of the digestive system (4,56 %) of 5,43±0,19 cases (p<0,05), the fifth place is occupied by diseases of the circulatory system (4,17 %) of 4,96±0,21 cases (p<0,05). Conclusions. The results that can be obtained of the analysis of morbidity with temporary disability of workers of these professions can be regarded as source data and open up prospects for further study of the risks of as the common professional diseases and development of complex of preventive measures aimed at reducing not only diseases with temporary disability, and a pair of professional and occupational pathology. Key Words: open pit mining of iron ore, morbidity with temporary disability.

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