Occupational Hazards and Diseases among Forestry Workers in Poland
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Forestry workers are exposed occupationally to a number of harmful or harmful factors in their working environment (whole body and hand-arm vibration, acoustic and infrasonic noise, biohazards, musculoskeletal loads and other) that may cause a variety of workrelated or occupational diseases (e.g. vibration syndrome, noiseinduced hearing loss, hand-arm, infectious and parasitic diseases, allergic diseases, photodermatoses, toxic reactions and spine pain syndrome and peripheral nervous system diseases and others) [1-16].
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تاریخ انتشار 2012