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Job Stressors in Subway Workers and Firemen
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Seok Hwan Yoon, Sook Jung Choi, Dong Hoon Shin, In Sung Chung, Jung Sook Ha
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Korean Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2007;19(3):179-186. Published online September 30, 2007
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.35371/kjoem.2007.19.3.179
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- OBJECTIVES
To determine the job stress factors of subway workers and firemen and to develope appropriate stress management systems for the works places.
METHODS
The study subjects comprised 1,826 male subway workers and 538 male firemen residing in Daegu metropolitan city. The Korean Occupational Stress Scale (KOSS) questionnaire was used.
RESULTS
The median values of the study subjects were lower than the reference values. The categories of physical environment and insufficient job control were more stressful to firemen while the organization system category was stressful to both subway workers and firemen (p<0.05). There was no statistical difference in the stress factor of the interpersonal conflict category. Among the firemen, the physical environment category was more stressful to field work department workers than to desk workers (p<0.05).
CONCLUSION
The study results suggested that interpersonal conflict and organization system categories are stressful to male subway workers and firemen. Especially, effective control of firemen's physical environment stress factor is needed.
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A Case of Argyria from Silver in Cellular Phone Case Manufacture
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Ki Hong Tak, Seok Hwan Yoon, Mi Young Lee, Dong Hoon Shin, In Sung Chung
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Korean Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2006;18(4):339-344. Published online December 31, 2006
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.35371/kjoem.2006.18.4.339
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- BACKGROUND
Skin contact with, and the breathing in of air containing silver compounds can occur in the workplace. Occupational exposure to silver and its compounds is mainly via airborne dust, metal fumes, and mists of solutions containing silver compounds. Argyria results from increased serum silver levels and the deposition of silver-containing particles in the dermis and mucous membranes. The author reports a patient with generalized argyria, who worked on the manufacture of cellular phone cases.
CASE
REPORT: The patient was a 30 year-old male, with extensive blue-gray discoloration of the whole body, especially sun-exposed area, of 3 years duration. He had been exposed to silver in the processing of EMI for the past 4 years and gaskets for 1 year. EMI is the process by which the internal electromagnetic wave in cellular phone cases are shielded, and gaskets play an important role in shielding the electric clashes between electronic circuits, as well as increasing the durability of cellular phone cases to impact. EMI had been processed manually but this was changed to automatic spraying by robots in 2003. On physical examination, the patient had diffuse blue-gray discoloration of the skin, which was most prominent in the sun-exposed areas of his face, neck and V of the chest. Histopathological examination of a punch biopsy specimen from the posterior neck revealed fine, minute, round, and brown-black granules deposited in the basement membrane zone surrounding the eccrine glands. The laboratory findings were positive for hepatitis B antigen, with a serum silver concentration of 150.3 ppb. From this evidence, he was diagnosed with argyria due to silver exposure.
DISCUSSION
The author reports a case of occupational systemic argyria due to inhalation exposure of silver compounds.
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