Fields of Activity Exposed to Hazards
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Hazards
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Preventive Measures
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Manufacturing of food (cheese, yoghurt, salami sausage) or food supplements; bakeries
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- Aspergillus or yeast fungi; allergy-causing bacteria and mites.
- Organic grain, milk powder or flour dusts contaminated with biological hazard factors.
- Botulinum-toxines or alphatoxines.
- Enclosed processes.
- Prevent the genesis of mist.
- Quarantine infected areas.
- Appropriate hygiene behaviour.
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Providing health care services
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- Several viral and bacterial infections like HIV, hepatitises or tuberculosis.
- Needle-injection injuries and possible contagion.
- Safe handling of infectious samples, faeces, contaminated bed linen and other materials.
- Safe handling and cleaning of blood splatter and other bodily fluids.
- Sufficient protective gear, gloves, clothes, glasses.
- Appropriate hygiene behaviour.
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Laboratories
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- Infections and allergies when handling micro-organisms and cell cultures (such as human tissues).
- Accidental spillages and needle-injection injuries.
- Micro-biological safety closets.
- Preventive measures decreasing dust and mist.
- Safe handling and transport of samples.
- Appropriate protective means and hygiene.
- Contamination clearance and emergency measures for spillages.
- Limited access.
- Installation of warning signs.
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Agriculture, forestry, gardening, manufacturing animal feed and dried fodder
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- Bacteria, fungi, mites and viruses transferred from animals, parasites and ticks.
- Respiratory problems caused by micro-organisms and mites in the organic dust of grain, milk powder, flour and spices.
- Certain allergic illnesses like “farmer’s lung” and “poultry breeder’s lung”.
- Preventive measures decreasing dust and mist.
- Prevent contact with infected animals or contaminated devices.
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Metal industry, timber industry
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Skin problems and bronchial asthma due to contact with aspergillus or yeast fungi in industrial processes like flour milling, timber mass production, and the use of metal and stone cutting fluids.
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- Local extraction-ventilation.
- Regular maintenance, filtering and cleaning of fluids and mechanisms.
- Skin protection.
- Appropriate hygiene measures.
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Work zones with air conditioning systems and high moisture (e.g. textile industry, paper manufacturing)
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- Allergy and respiratory disorders caused by aspergillus or yeast fungi.
- Legionellosis.
- Measures decreasing dust and mist.
- Regular maintenance of ventilation, mechanisms and work zone.
- Limiting the number of employees.
- Keeping the tap water at high temperature.
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Archives, museums, libraries
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- Decreasing dust and mist.
- Cleaning of contamination.
- Adequate personal protective means.
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Processing natural building materials like clay, straws, reed and timber
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Fungi and bacteria caused by the deterioration of building materials.
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- Decreasing dust and mist.
- Adequate personal protective means and hygiene.
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Office
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Aspergillus spreading through air
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- Decreasing dust and mist.
- Cleaning of contamination.
- Adequate personal protective means and hygiene.
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Waste management
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Micro-organisms, aspergillus, endotoxins, volatile organic substances spreading through air; hepatitis; HIV
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- Decreasing dust and mist.
- Cleaning of contamination.
- Adequate personal protective means and hygiene.
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