[Priority topics of industrial medicine in production and processing of nonferrous metals alloys].

The authors present general characteristics of nonferrous metals alloys production: work conditions, health state of workers, main directions to make healthier work conditions.

[Hygienic evaluation of the effects of vibration and arsenic in miners engaged in extraction of arsenic-containing ore].

Hygienic evaluation covered work conditions on 4 gold mines including 3 ones for gold and arsenic and one "arsenic-free". The mines demonstrated similar occupational factors, but differed in arsenic content of the ore extracted and therefore in arsenic concentrations in air of the workplaces. Miners engaged into extraction of the arsenic-containing ore, especially those exposed to vibration and arsenic concentrations over the MAC, manifest extensive arsenic accumulation in the hair and excretion with the urine, higher morbidity with transitory disablement, more prevalent vibration disease and mortality with malignancies.