Traffic noise is one of the varied causative factors for stress, especially in cities like Chennai. Added to the other risks for stress, traffic policemen are victimized to this too. Blood pressure is an indicator to assess the cardiac status in stress. Increased cardiovascular reactivity to the CPT (Cold Pressor Test) helps to predict the future development of hypertension. So, the present stu...

Objective: To assess the knowledge, attitude and practices of traffic policemen towards the health effects caused by noise pollution. Materials and Methods: The present questionnaire-based study was carried out among 86 traffic policemen randomly selected for an awareness workshop for prevention of noise pollution. The questionnaire included questions regarding the self­ assessment of the polic...

There are several volatile substances from the traffic, including benzene, toluene, carbon monoxide, lead and formaldehyde. Most of these substances are considered carcinogens. Police are at occupational risk for toxic fume exposure. This study compared sister chromatid exchange (SCE), a marker for genotoxicity, among a sample of Thai traffic policemen in Bangkok with healthy control subjects. ...

The study was conducted on a group of 90 traffic policemen aged 20-50 years and working in and around Patiala district to assess their knowledge, attitude, and practices toward the ill effects caused by traffic noise on health. The subjects were required to fill up a questionnaire regarding their self-assessment of hearing ability, noise-related attitudes, and the use of personal protective equ...

Adverse health effects and reproductive hazards at the workplace are an issue of increasing health concern and more than 1000 chemicals at workplace have been demonstrated to have adverse effects in animals. However such studies are limited in humans. Since data on reproductive epidemiology in traffic policemen exposed to automobile exhaust is limited, a study on the reproductive endpoints of t...

Occupational hazards on health owing to environmental pollution have recently received some attention in public health management and occupational medicine but the mitigation measures for those exposed leaves a lot to be desired. Urbanization & industrialization coupled with the ever increasing use of automobiles are major source of environmental pollution. Airborne dust constitutes most signif...

The particles emitted from vehicular exhaust usually include particles less than 10 micron diameter (PM10) which get accumulated in the lungs and produce respiratory impairments. This study was taken up to assess the effect of vehicular exhaust on their pulmonary functions readings. The spirometric analysis of traffic policemen revealed FEV1 2.35 L, FVC 3.19L and PEF 7.8 L/s when compared with ...

In China, traffic policemen have to stand for several hours a day at the road intersections with high vehicle flows. To assess their exposure to airborne carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) during their working time, a preliminary study was conducted to measure the personal exposure level to PAHs. And a probabilistic incremental lifetime cancer risk (ILCR) model together with t...

This study was designed to investigate the biochemical alteration in human caused by free radical accumulation due to air pollution. The policemen recruited were 60 country policemen consisting of 30 non smokers (group I) and 30 smokers (group II); 30 smoking policemen with administrative work in Jakarta (group III) and 30 smoking traffic policemen from Jakarta (group IV). Our results show that...