Gigiena i sanitariia
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Gigiena i sanitariia · Mar 2014
[Hygienic aspects of the working conditions assessment and state of health of the workers of the railway departmental security forces].
There were performed a comprehensive hygienic evaluation of the working conditions of employment and analysis of morbidity with temporary disability (MTD) of the workers of the railway departmental security forces. There was proved a significant influence of accumulated period of work on MTD. The professional causality as of the respiratory diseases in shooters and dog handlers, as of diseases of the circulatory system in the administrative and managerial workers has been established.
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Gigiena i sanitariia · Mar 2014
Comparative Study Historical Article[100 years of drinking water regulation. Retrospective review, current situation and prospects].
There is considered the history of the development of legislative requirements to the regulation of the quality of drinking water in different countries and international organizations during the period from 1912 to the present time. In terms of comparative analysis there is analyzed the current state of regulatory frameworks of the Russian Federation, WHO, EU, Finland, the UK, Singapore, Australia, Japan, China, Nigeria, the United States and Canada in the field of providing favorable conditions of population drinking water use. There has been noted the significant progress in standardization of the content of the biogenic elements and chemical pollution of drinking water in the absence of uniform requirements to the composition and properties of drinking water globally, that is bound to the need to take into account the national peculiarities of drinking water supply within the separate countries. As promising directions for improving regulation of drinking water quality there are noted: the development of new standards for prioritized water pollution, periodic review ofstandards after appearance of the new scientific data on the biological action of substances, the use of the concept of risk, the harmonization of the normative values and the assessment of the possibility of introduction into the practice the one more criterion of profitableness of population water use--the bioenergetic state of the water.