Hazards of hand skin of furniture industry workers
Journal Title: Podstawy i Metody Oceny Środowiska Pracy - Year 2015, Vol 31, Issue 4
Abstract
Contact skin diseases, which occur among the workers in the furniture industry, are most often caused by harmful chemical and mechanical factors at the workplace. To collect data to suggest a suitable prevention of contact dermatoses, 50 employees at different workplaces in furniture industry were surveyed. Among the respondents, the largest group were carpenters (46%) and upholsterers (10%). The most frequently performed activities include cutting boards, veneering, grinding, painting, staining, gluing, assembling and upholstering. Exposure of hands and applied individual and skin protection were recognized. Employees involved in painting or staining elements, making up components and preparing and replenishing adhesives were exposed to chemicals. Symptoms of cutaneous lesions such as roughness, dryness, cracking skin, thickening of skin, flaking, redness, rash, were observed. In 42% of cases, these changes are permanent. Personal protective equipment is used by 74.5% of the respondents. Employees do not use skin protection measures and about 80.4% of the respondents declared that they did not know this type of preparations. In some companies care creams are incorrectly offered as protective preparations Three-stage program prevents hand dermatoses by using appropriately selected skin protecting measures, mild detergents for washing hands and skin regenerating preparations after work.
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JOANNA KURPIEWSKA
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