Effect of asphalt emissions on the health of workers, Najaf City - Iraq A case study

Abstract

Human activities have the greatest impact on environmental change and natural biological disruption, and there are many forms of this change, whether in the environmental climate, such as the rapid loss of biodiversity and lack of land suitability for agriculture, or the rise in temperature as a result of human changes or environmental health impacts. This research included detecting the effect of asphalt plant pollution on physiological blood parameters for workers in these plants by estimating certain blood markers in samples from 30 workers of different ages, and exposure periods included blood WBC, HGB, HCT, PLT and CO2. The findings showed that the WBC values showed that 93% of employees were above the usual limit, while 84.4% of employees had higher concentrations than control group values, 99% of workers had concentrations above usual HGB levels, while 43% had concentrations below control group values, 86.8% had concentrations below c. 66% of workers have a record lower than the control group 33.4% exceeded the control group values, the results of laboratory CO2 analyzes show that 90% of the CO2 concentrations of this indicator are outside the natural limits and that 100% of the CO2 concentration of workers in their blood is higher than that of the control group.