[MEDICAL AND PREVENTIVE MEASURES FOR REDUCING CHEMICAL OCCUPATIONAL RISKS IN THE PRODUCTION OF TITANIUM ALLOYS].

An innovative approach in the prevention and rehabilitation of workers employed in the production of titanium alloys envisages the implementation of targeted multi-stage rehabilitation measures in groups with high occupational risk.

[Primary and secondary prophylaxis of vibration disease caused by local vibration in miners].

The article contains data on complex balneotherapy of vibration disease caused by local vibration in high risk group (miners exposed to vibration), that help to justify use of means for primary and secondary prevention of vibration disease.

[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.

[Occupational medicine in aluminum and copper alloy production].

Workers engaged into aluminum alloys production demonstrated high prevalence of occupational respiratory diseases caused by dust--pneumoconiosis and dust bronchitis, workers of copper alloys production were diagnosed as having early stage of chronic lead intoxication.

[Dust as a factor in crystalline silicon production].

Up-to-date crystalline silicon production is characterized by such leading occupational hazards as higher level of dust with complicated chemical composition, aerosols that vary with technology and derive from disintegration of silica, crystalline silicon or condensation of silica. Experiments comparing prevalence of diseases caused by silica and crystalline silicon dusts in acute and chronic intratracheal administration and inhalation identified crystalline silicon as moderately fibrogenic and specified its MAC at 4 mg/m3 in the air of workplace.