[Occupational hygiene in industrial assembly work].

Data on occupational hygienic characteristics of industrial-assembly work are reported, which have not been subject upto now to such studies. Complex hygienic evaluation of the basic physical and chemical factors of the working environment is performed as well as physiological and ergonomic characteristics of the principle professional groups, analysis of the occupational diseases and diseases with temporary disability and clinic and laboratory examinations on the workers. The following peculiarities of occupational hygienic aspect are established: 1. dynamic and multiform professional itinerary of the industrial-installing workers; 2. large variability in the characteristics of the physical and chemical factors of the working environment, most frequently surpassing the admissible norms and requirements, as well as the duration of exposure to them; 3. considerable working engagement (from 63 to 78% operation time), connected with heavy physical loading (dynamic and static), exceptionally unfavourable, compulsory and fixed working posture, possibilities of prolonged working day, high rate of involvement of the psychomotor sphere, analyzers and attention, great professional responsibility and nervous and emotional stress; 4. occupational and general morbidity of workers, adequate to the already established by the authors occupational noxa--acute poisoning with smoking gases, injury of the hearing, diseases as a result of overpressure of the locomotor apparatus and the nervous system.