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Module 3: Toxicology -
Section 11: Lead |
TOX 11.5: Exercise: Lead
Regulations |
Task:
This will be done in class.
Consult:
- Lead
Regulations
2001 (Open up the book on
Regulations, and then the book on Lead Regulations 2001)
- Other material provided on
lead.
Questions:
You are an occupational
medical/health practitioner.
- As advisor to a lead using
battery factory under the new regulations, you find a worker with a
blood lead concentration of 65 µg/dl. Go throµgh
all the steps you are required to take.
- The factory carries out zinc
protoporphyrin (ZPP) monitoring in terms of section 8 of the
regulations. You find a worker with a ZPP of 12 µg/g Hb. You
do a blood lead and find it is 58 µg/dl. What course of
action is required?
- You are the advisor to the
union representing workers in the above battery factory. The union asks
you about the implications for the changeover from a medical removal
standard of 80 µg/dl blood lead (old regulations) to 60
µg/dl (recent regulations). Prepare your advice.
- You are asked to prepare a
health training session for workers. You want them to be aware of early
warning signs of lead toxicity. What do you tell them?
- You are asked by an
engineering contractor about a job which requires them to send a team
of workers to remove lead paint from a large drilling rig using gas
torches. How would the regulations apply?
- The workers are insisting on
being provided with milk to protect them from the effects of lead. The
management asks you to give your opinion. What would you say?
- You mention impotence as a
possible effect of lead toxicity. After the education session, a number
of employees come to you concerned about this symptom. How would you
manage this?
Postgraduate Diploma in Occupational Health (DOH) - Modules 3:
Occupational Medicine & Toxicology (Basic) by Profs Mohamed
Jeebhay and Rodney
Ehrlich,
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