Occupational morbidity among workers of Magnitogorsk metallurgic enterprise (MME)

Within the period of 1993-1997 years, the structure and the level of occupational morbidity among workers of Magnitogorsk metallurgic enterprise (MME) are analyzed. It is concluded that the application of new technologies and the implementation of effective methods of the activity of the MME medical department allow to decrease considerably the level of occupational diseases as compared with the period 1983-1987. The diseases of the dust etiology occupy the leading place (78.8%) in the structure of the occupational morbidity. The application of the computerized system 'Periodic examination' permits to increase the revealing of the occupational pathology at early stages.