Department of Hygiene, Occupational Safety and Health

Scientific work

 

Veremey Mikhailo Ivanovich, Associate Professor of the department, is responsible for scientific work at the department.

Contacts: Sanitary and Hygienic building, second floor, room 10, tel. 544-49-30.

  • Main directions of work: agriculture chemicals toxicology, nano- and heavy metals toxicology, occupational noise impact on a human body, occupational physiology, occupational health and safety in healthcare facilities. Three masters and three graduate students have been trained for 5 years.
  • The Research work of the department has always been concerned with the study of working conditions, health of workers of various industries, toxic properties of new industrial chemicals and products in order to develop effective measures to prevent negative effects on workers, the prevention of the occurrence of occupational diseases, reduction of work rates production-related diseases, as well as increased productivity.
  • Since 1993, the main scientific direction of the department is the study of the toxicological properties of polymers and plastics, priority patterns of formation of working conditions of workers engaged in industrial production and processing of these complex chemical products, with the aim of developing effective measures to prevent negative impact on production or working. The results of scientific experimental-toxicological and industrial-hygienic researches performed at the department under the direction of O.P.Yavorovskyi, in solving this important hygienic problem, formed the basis of the scientific substantiation of the MPC of a whole group of epoxy resins, adhesives based on them and a number of other fields, development of “Sanitary rules for the production of synthetic polymeric materials and enterprises for their processing” (1988), “Sanitary rules for the production and application of epoxy resins and materials based on them” (1990), methodological guidelines “Hygienic requirements for working conditions and prevention of diseases in workers in the production of epoxy resins and plastics based on them” (1988), State Standard of Ukraine No. 2093 “Resins epoxy-dian noncuring resins” (1992), patents, information sheets, etc.

At the beginning of 2009, at the initiative of Professor O.P. Yavorovskyi, the Department selected a new topical scientific direction – the study of hygienic features of technological processes of obtaining nanoparticles and working conditions of workers employed in these processes, as well as the development of methodological approaches for the study of toxic properties of nanoparticles effective measures for the prevention of possible negative impact on the workers of production factors, which are formed during the production and use of nanoparticles.

Grant activity: employees of department were involved in different grants researching programs dedicated to ionizing radiation impact on human body and nanotoxicology problems.

Publishing (1 textbook,) (number in the last 5 years)

  • Textbooks – 1
  • Manuals – 11
  • Monographs – 3
  • Guidelines – 6
  • Rational proposals – 3

Publishing activities:

23 monographs, 34 textbooks, 16 study guides, over 2 000 scientific publications, 240 guidelines (7 methodological instructions in English language) and informational letters, 103 inventor’s certificates and patents, 22 rational proposals were published.

 

 

Monographs dedicated to history of the Hygiene and Ecology department 2 and great personalities sacrificed their lives to development of preventive medicine and hygiene in Ukraine: (Yavorovskyi O.P. Professor V. Ya. Pidhaetskyi – founder of the Department of Professional Hygiene and Training Courses in School Hygiene and Physical Culture at the Kyiv Medical Institute // Nauk. Bulletin of Bogomolets National Medical University. – 2006. – № 3. – P. 234-240.; Participants of national liberation struggle and Ukrainian state-building, repressed and rehabilitated doctors of Ukraine. L., 2008; Yavorovskyi OP, Sakharchuk IM, Mykola Kudritskyi. Doctor. Teacher. Scientist (2009.)