title: [Evaluation of health hazards of asbestos containing wastes in the mining industry and prospects of their utilization].
abstract: The study covered asbestos-containing waste at a major mining enrichment enterprise--"Uralasbest" JSC. A set of methods were used to associate natural human compensatory mechanisms with experimental models simplifying possible routes of asbestos influence on humans and proved no toxic features of the dust studied. The results help to manage removal and storage of asbestos-containing waste, to use it for production of various building materials. However, variable asbestos (free and fixed) content of the waste and admixtures of chromium, nickel and other elements in it prevent from utilisation of asbestos waste at other enterprises and necessitate further hygienic evaluation.
authors.affiliation: NII meditsiny truda RAMN, Moskva.
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Dueva
authors.forename: L T
authors.initials: LT
authors.lastname: Elovskaia
authors.forename: E V
authors.initials: EV
authors.lastname: Kovalevskaia
mesh_terms: D001194:Asbestos; D006801:Humans; D007220:Industrial Waste; D008906:Mining; D016272:Occupational Health
chemical_list: D007220:Industrial Waste; D001194:Asbestos