Hygienic approaches to the assessment of occupational morbidity in the Republic of Bashkortostan in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

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BACKGROUND: In the tense economic and epidemiological conditions that have developed in the country, Rospotrebnadzor bodies and Occupational pathology centers in the Republic of Bashkortostan consider monitoring and analysis of the state of the production environment, indicators of occupational morbidity to be significant areas of their activities.

AIM: To study the state of working conditions and occupational morbidity in the Republic of Bashkortostan during the COVID-19 pandemic.

MATERIAL AND METHODS: The analysis of the main hygienic parameters of harmful factors of the production environment, indicators of occupational morbidity at industrial and agricultural enterprises of the Republic of Bashkortostan for 2020–2021 was carried out.

RESULTS: According to the data of the Rospotrebnadzor department for the Republic of Bashkortostan, the number of objects with the status of extremely high and high risk at enterprises of the manufacturing, agricultural sectors and the construction industry is significantly higher than the national average. The largest number of registered jobs in the same industries do not meet the hygienic standards in terms of qualitative and quantitative characteristics. The most harmful production factors affecting the formation of the working environment at almost all industrial and agricultural facilities of the republic are factors of the physical nature and the labor process and, as a consequence, the development of occupational diseases in workers. During 2020–2021, 122 occupational diseases and poisoning cases were registered in the republic. For the first time in the practice of hygienists and occupational pathologists of the republic, the biological factor significantly impacted on the qualitative and quantitative components of occupational morbidity.

CONCLUSION: Against the background of the ongoing pandemic of new coronavirus infection, there is a deterioration in working conditions and occupational health of workers, which requires the development of effective mechanisms that provide for the responsibility of interested government agencies and employers for the attitude to the working environment and the health of workers.

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Anna А. Kazak

Department of the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare in the Republic of Bashkortostan

Email: rpnrb@02.rospotrebnadzor.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0631-8664
SPIN-code: 7043-2330
Russian Federation, Ufa

Elmira R. Shaykhlislamova

Ufa Research Institute of Occupational Health and Human Ecology; Bashkir State Medical University

Email: shajkh.ehlmira@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6127-7703
SPIN-code: 1041-3862

Cand. Sci. (Med.), аssociate рrofessor

Russian Federation, Ufa; Ufa

Alfred R. Yamaliev

Department of the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare in the Republic of Bashkortostan

Email: Yamaliev_AR@02.rospotrebnadzor.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4314-4712
SPIN-code: 3843-9550
Russian Federation, Ufa

Elvira T. Valeeva

Ufa Research Institute of Occupational Health and Human Ecology; Bashkir State Medical University

Email: oozr@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9146-5625
SPIN-code: 6778-8590

Dr. Sci. (Med.), chief research associate

Russian Federation, Ufa; Ufa

Irina V. Sandakova

Department of the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare in the Republic of Bashkortostan

Email: Sandakova_iv@02.rospotrebnadzor.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4301-3720
SPIN-code: 1415-9765
Russian Federation, Ufa

Rasima R. Galimova

Ufa Research Institute of Occupational Health and Human Ecology

Email: rasima75@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4658-545X
SPIN-code: 6388-0203

Cand. Sci. (Med.), senior research associate

Russian Federation, Ufa

Irina F. Suleymanova

Ufa Research Institute of Occupational Health and Human Ecology

Author for correspondence.
Email: XirinaF@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0651-9201
SPIN-code: 1681-9628
Russian Federation, Ufa

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