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Health and the factory environment: The medical contribution
Author(s) -
Juniper C.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of the american oil chemists' society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.512
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1558-9331
pISSN - 0003-021X
DOI - 10.1007/bf02673415
Subject(s) - legislation , workforce , factory (object oriented programming) , multidisciplinary approach , work (physics) , business , environmental planning , environmental health , medicine , medical emergency , engineering , political science , computer science , geography , law , mechanical engineering , programming language
Today’s awareness of the ill‐health potential of airborne particulate matter requires vigilance on the part of management and a continuing medical and hygiene program. Introduction of enzymes to detergent formulations in the late 1960s presented a health problem. New techniques for environmental monitoring, allied to high standards of individual and group medical surveillance with sophisticated analyses of the data were required. The multidisciplinary approach is described together with an assessment of the resource required and a summary of the medical results. Allied to the undoubted and accepted responsibility of management to safeguard the health of the workforce there is now legislation, already in existence in some countries, to reinforce this requirement. The key areas of the United Kingdom Health and Safety At Work Act are described to illustrate this.