Dustiness risk in the mine of Ni ná Slaná.docVIP

Acta Montanistica Slovaca Ro?ník 10 (2005), mimoriadne ?íslo 1, 253-257 Riziko pra?nosti v bani Ni?ná Slaná Pavel Slan?o , Milan Bobro a Jozef Han?u?ák 1 Dustiness risk in the mine of Ni?ná Slaná The fibrogeneous dust is considered as a specific harmful substance in mine working sites. Such a kind of dust cumulates in lungs and this fact usually results in the lungs dusting, the so – called pneumoconiosis. Thus, the dustiness risk poses a probability of the lungs damage by pneumoconiosis. For the calculation of the dustiness risk it is necessary to know the following data: the value of average dustiness k in the working site per a definite time period, the dispersivity of dust “D” (it determines a portion of dust particles with c a diameter under 5 μm, the so – called respirable particles) and the percentage content of quartz Q in the respirable grain size fraction. r The contribution presents a calculation of the dustiness risk “R” according to the equation (1), where “R” is in percentage, “? ” a is the analytically specific harmfulness and “KD ” is the total cumulative dust dose received by a worker in the time of his dust c exposure. The total cumulative dust dose is calculated on the basis of the equation (4), where “k ” is the average dust concentration c in the assessed time period, t is the time of exposure, V is the average amount of air anspired by the exposed worker per a time unit 3 -1 -6 (standardized at the value of 1,2 m h ). 10 - recalculation from mg to kg for “KD ”. c If the values of “Q ”, “D” and “k ” during the worker exposure on a definite workplace are constant, the dustiness risk r c “R” is calculated according to the equation (1) and (5) respectively. In the case of “n” time intervals for which the values “Q ”, “D” r and “k ” are known, the dustiness risk “R” is calculated according to the equation (