再生水无计划间接补充饮用水的雌激素健康风险

以城市污水为水源的再生水中含有一定量的雌激素类内分泌干扰物,其在无计划间接补充饮用水过程中存在潜在健康风险.针对再生水经河流补给湖库型水源地的典型场景,研究了再生水中雌酮、雌二醇、17α-乙炔基雌二醇、双酚A、壬基酚和辛基酚在水体中的变化规律,评价了雌激素的健康风险.结果表明,再生水(二级出水)中雌激素类物质的质量浓度多分布在0.1~100 ng·L-1水平;双酚A和壬基酚的浓度较高,可达到1~10μg·L-1水平.再生水间接补充饮用水过程中,雌激素的浓度受到上游来水稀释、河道湖库自然降解和饮用水处理工艺去除等作用的影响.雌酮、雌二醇、双酚A、壬基酚和辛基酚的非致癌风险较小,都低于规定值1.当湖库型水源地的水力停留时间大于30 d时,再生水中17α-乙炔基雌二醇对人体的非致癌风险值大多小于1;当停留时间小于10 d且再生水占饮用水比例达50%以上时,16%~47%样品的17α-乙炔基雌二醇的非致癌风险值大于1,其健康风险需优先关注.     

隧道工人的PM10职业暴露特征调查分析及其健康风险评价

针对隧道工人职业健康风险缺乏定量评价方法的现状,借鉴公共环境健康领域暴露评价模型对隧道施工PM10职业暴露的健康风险进行定量评价.设计职业暴露问卷对湖北麻竹高速公路某标段施工中的250名隧道工人进行了调查,并对现场PM10浓度水平进行了监测.结果表明,隧道工人的PM10暴露浓度水平相当高,开挖工、爆破工、支护工、出渣工、二衬工的PM10暴露浓度分别为限值的83倍、18倍、8倍、9倍和9倍;5个工种比较,二衬工日均暴露时间最长,达11.48 h·d-1,能量代谢率最高,达1 067.43 k J·(m2·h)-1,呼吸速率的计算结果显示除二衬工属于重度活动以外,其他4个工种均为中度活动;评价结果显示5个工种均存在健康风险,其中,PM10暴露浓度高是开挖工和爆破工危险系数高的主要原因,而二衬工危险系数高的原因则在于高劳动强度所致的较高的呼吸速率以及较高的日均暴露时间.降低隧道工人PM10健康风险可行的途径是通过配备合适劳动作业的呼吸防护用品从而降低PM10暴露浓度,另外可通过制定相应的职业规范设置合理的劳动年限从而减少持续暴露时间.     

电镀厂周边环境中重金属分布特征及人体健康暴露风险评价

以广州市白云区两电镀厂为研究对象,采集电镀厂车间废气和周围空气及土壤样品,分析了样品中重金属(包括Cd、Cr、Cu、Ni、Pb、Zn和类重金属As、Hg)含量分布,分别应用地累积指数(Igeo)和US EPA的RAGS风险评估模型,对土壤中重金属污染程度、空气和土壤中重金属人体健康风险进行评价.结果表明,车间废气中Hg和Pb,空气中Cr分别高于相应标准限值,土壤中Cd、Hg和Zn达到中等污染程度.土壤和空气中重金属暴露的非致癌风险指数HQ和HI均1,非致癌健康风险可忽略.土壤中As和Cr的致癌风险10-4,高于最大可接受风险水平,CRCr对TCR贡献率81%.空气中Cr和Ni的致癌风险CR和TCR在10-6~10-4,存在致癌风险可能但低于最大可接受风险水平.土壤中重金属对儿童暴露的CR明显高于成人,而空气中重金属对成人暴露的CR值明显较高.相关分析表明土壤中重金属与废气中重金属含量密切相关,主成分分析表明土壤中达到中等污染的重金属来源可能不同于其它重金属.     

青藏铁路建设中高寒缺氧及保障问题的研讨

“高寒缺氧”是青藏铁路建设面临的主要难题之一,青藏铁路沿线自然条件恶劣、海拔高、气压低,含氧量低,缺氧严重会导致急性高原病严重影响人体健康和劳动能力,同时含氧量低会造成机械功率降低。为保障高原施工人员和铁路建设者的健康和安全,降低机械设备的功率损耗,在青藏铁路的设计和建设中,必须采取高原劳动卫生和劳动保护措施、选用可靠度高、维修量少的运营设备,建立起适合高原特点的管理体制、机构及合理的用工制度等技术保障措施,提供坚强有力的医疗卫生保障,从而提高劳动效率,降低劳动强度、缩短工期,保护员工的安全与健康。     

再生水利用的病原微生物浓度限值探讨

采用微生物定量风险评价的方法,结合北京市某城市污水回用工程,对再生水用于园林绿化、道路冲洗与降尘等市政用途时的病原微生物浓度限值进行了探讨.提出的限值为:大肠埃希氏杆菌70个/L、沙门氏菌0.5 CFU/L、志贺氏菌0.1CFU/100L、甲肝病毒0.001 PFU/100L、轮状病毒1.2×10^-3PFU/100L、脊髓灰质炎病毒0.07 PFU/100L、柯萨奇病毒0.04PFU/100L、埃可病毒0.05 PFU/100L、隐孢子虫卵囊0.1个/100L、贾弟鞭毛虫卵囊0.03个/100L.     

Preliminary study on health risk from mercury exposure to residents of Wujiazhan town on the Di’er Songhua river, Northeast China

Mercury concentrations in hair are typically used as a biomarker to assess exposure to mercury. A total of 108 hair samples were collected from residents (age range 5–73 years) of Wujiazhan town, northeast China, to determine total mercury concentrations. Hair mercury concentrations ranged from 0.16 to 199 mg kg^–1 with an average value of 3.41 mg kg⁻¹. The relationships between mercury concentration and gender and between hair mercury concentration and age were not significant. Overall, 16.7% of all samples were above the RfD value published by the United States Environmental Protection agency. The results indicate that there may be some been health risk from mercury exposure to the residents in the study area.     

某石化企业化验室职业健康危害现状与改进建议

通过查找某石化企业化验室因通风不良、整体布局不合理、设施配置不完善以及职业健康管理力度、深度不够等方面存在的问题,提出确保化验室分析人员身心健康的改进措施。     

Some factors influencing effective utilization of drinking water facilities: women,income, and health in rural north Ghana

In the examination of the implementation of rural drinking water facilities, not enough attention has been paid to analyzing the socioeconomic and political relationships that affect the effective utilization of the facilities, particularly as these relate to women in rural society. This paper suggests that much of the difficulty in instituting the utilization of safe water supply sources has to do with the rather low economic status of women—the main water collectors. Poverty consigns women to long periods of work in activities or jobs that bring little reward. This makes it difficult to effectively digest the messages delivered by program staff and limits the extent of usage of the safe water facilities.     

Testing of a GIS model ofEucalyptus Iargiflorens health on a semiarid,saline floodplain

Irrigated agriculture has resulted in substantial changes in water flows to the lower reaches of the River Murray. These changes have led to large-scale occurrences of dieback inEucalyptus largiflorens (black box) woodlands as well as increased inputs of salt to the river. Management options to address problems of this scale call for the use of spatial data sets via geographic information systems (GIS). A GIS exists for one floodplain of the River Murray at Chowilla, and a simple model predicted six health classes ofEucalyptus largiflorens based on groundwater salinity, flooding frequency, and groundwater depth.To determine the usefulness of the model for vegetation management, the quality of both the model and the GIS data sets were tested. Success of the testing procedure was judged by the degree of spatial matching between the model's predictions of health and that assessed from aerial photographs and by field truthing. Analyses at 80 sites showed that tree health was significantly greater where groundwater salinity was less than 40 dS/m or flooding occurred more frequently than 1 in 10 years or depth to groundwater exceeded 4 m. Testing of the GIS data sets found that vegetation was misclassified at 15% of sites. Association was shown between GIS-predicted values and field-truthed values of groundwater salinity but not groundwater depth. The GIS model of health is a useful starting point for future vegetation management and can be further improved by increasing the quality of the data coverages and further refining of the model to optimize parameters and thresholds.