Applying of Technique for Assessing Occupational Cancerogenic Risks for Workers Used in Metallurgical Shops With Different Methods of Blister Copper Production

Background: Exposure to carcinogens at workers used in the enterprises of copper metallurgy making urgent the task of assessing carcinogenic risks in the nonferrous metallurgy. In particular, melting and conversion of copper are characterized by the exposure of arsenic, cadmium, lead, nickel, benz(a)pyrene. Aim: Assessment of professional carcinogenic risks for workers used in shops with a shaft and reflective copper smelting ore, compared with one of the modern methods of producing blister copper. Carcinogenic risk was estimated from each of the substances and in total from their combination for 25 years of work experience. When inappropriate carcinogen risk calculated duration time of operation, at which the allowable upper limit of occupational risk. Methods: A hygienic assessment of the contribution of the working environment to the formation of a carcinogenic risk for workers engaged in reverberatory and blast smelting of copper-bearing ores in comparison with autogenous processes was carried out. To...