Industrial workers need a safe working environment to ensure their wellbeing is protected while performing tasks. Occupational noise one of the most prevalent problems in industries due nature industry. Therefore, this paper aimed evaluate occupational exposure plastic factories Klang Valley, Malaysia. Noise measurement has been done all production lines, crushing department, packaging departme...

Ventilatory capacities of 73 Libyan men working in the Asbestos-Cement Pipe factory in Jenzur, a residential area near Tripoli, Libya and those of 73 age-matched healthy Libyan men unexposed to asbestos were determined. The mean values of forced vital capacity (FVC) and forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) for men unexposed to asbestos were 3.89 +/- 0.084 and 3.64 +/- 0.082 liters respec...

There is a strong interest from the physics community for high-quality, high-intensity neutrino beams as produced by a neutrino factory. With the help of other European laboratories, CERN has started a study on some of the many technological challenges of such a facility. Present ideas concerning the proton driver, as well as the muon accelerator complex, are presented and plans for the future ...

OBJECTIVES After a plastic reprocessing factory began to operate in August 2004, the residents around the factory in Neyagawa, Osaka, Japan, began to complain of symptoms. Therefore, we conducted an exposure assessment and a population-based epidemiological study in 2006. METHODS To assess exposure, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and total VOCs were measured at two locations in the vicinit...

introduction: metalworking fluids (mwfs) are widely used in metal working operations for cooling down, lubricating and reducing the friction between tools and work pieces which result in controlling the heat produced. exposure to mwfs causes several adverse effects including respiratory problems, skin diseases, cancer and even infertility. this study examines workers’ exposure to mwf mist and t...

Inadequate dietary intakes and poor health behaviors are of concern among rural residents in Korea. This study is conducted to compare dietary intakes, dietary diversity score (DDS), mean nutrient adequacy ratio (MAR) and health related behaviors by rural, factory and urban areas in Asan. A total of 930 adults (351 men and 579 women) were interviewed to assess social economic status (SES), heal...

was no perforation in the intestinal track. A patient, Y. M., male, aged 35 years, was admitted in Sir J. J. Hospital as an emergency ease at 3-10 p.n*. on 14th April, 1945. He gave the following history He was working in a squatting posture near an aircompressor machine in a factory, and was not aware that the nozzle of the air hose was lying near himAnother workman in the factory accidentally...

School education today aims at improving the integration of school and professional life. A popular way to provide first hand experiences to students are guided factory tours. Companies are highly interested in establishing contacts to school classes, but guided tours to factories are subject to constraints on both sides. For schools, they require organizational effort, are not easy to integrat...