Medical monitoring of asbestos-exposed workers: experience from Poland.

In Poland, the use of asbestos was banned in 1997 and asbestos plants have been closed since then. Despite their closure, cases of asbestos-related occupational diseases among former asbestos workers are still being recorded in the Central Register of Occupational Diseases. Between 2001 and 2014, there were 2726 asbestos-related illnesses, classified and reported as diseases associated with occupational exposure to asbestos.

[Occurrence of occupational diseases in Poland, 2014].

Background: The aim of the annual analysis of the incidence of occupational diseases in Poland is to evaluate the extent of the incidence and to identify its causes as well as activities involving factors that are harmful or annoying to such an extent that they result in occupational diseases.

Material And Methods: Occupational diseases reporting forms supplied to the Central Register of Occupational Diseases were used as the study material.

Results: In 2014, there were 2351 cases of occupational diseases recorded, i.

Occupational diseases among farmers in Poland.

Background: The study's objective is to present epidemiological situation concerning the incidence of occupational diseases among farmers in Poland.

Material And Methods: All 3438 cases of occupational diseases diagnosed among farmers and obligatorily reported to the Central Register of Occupational Diseases (covering all the national territory and all the cases of occupational diseases diagnosed in Poland after 1970) over the years 2000-2014 were subjected to analysis.

Results: The annual incidence in the analyzed period ranged 5-14 per 100 000 farmers.

Asbestos related diseases among workers of asbestos processing plants in relation to type of production and asbestos use.

Background: Asbestos dust is one of the most dangerous pneumoconiotic and carcinogenic agents. The aim of this study was to assess the occurrence of asbestosis and pleural mesothelioma, depending on asbestos consumption and the type of manufactured products, among former asbestos workers in Poland.

Material And Methods: The study subjects included employees of 18 large state-owned asbestos processing enterprises operating in the Polish market in 1945-1998.

[Occupational diseases in Poland in 2013 and their causative agents].

Background: The paper presents the incidence of occupational diseases in Poland (2013).

Material And Methods: Occupational disease reporting forms, supplied to the Central Register of Occupational Diseases, were used as the study material. The incidence was specified in terms of rates per 100 000 employed people.