Abstract
To improve the health surveillance program for workers with a known previous exposure to asbestos in a big metallurgic-mechanical industry from Lombardy, the sources of risk and the different exposure levels hare been reconstructed based on specific jobs. The eligibility criteria and a specific work program including information and organization supports hare been established by a work group composed by health physicians, workers and industrial hygienists. The major goals of the program were: to listen and support each worker who perceives worries about his health status; to prevent, if possible, diseases, especially cancer, resulting from exposure; to document the existing injuries for legal compensation. The resulting actions consist of counselling; indication to follow an adequate life and work style; indication, based on specific request of worker, of sanitary checks of first or eventually second level.
Translated title of the contribution | Health monitoring of workers with previous exposure to asbestos. An application in the metallurgical and metal works sector |
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Original language | Italian |
Pages (from-to) | 169-172 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Giornale Italiano di Medicina del Lavoro ed Ergonomia |
Volume | 28 |
Issue number | 2 |
Publication status | Published - Apr 2006 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
- Rehabilitation