Human biomonitoring as a method for assessing the impact of chemical factors on workers of the ship repair and shipbuilding industry

Purpose: to highlight the problem of assessing the impact of chemical factors on the health of personnel of enterprises engaged in ship repair and shipbuilding by conducting research on human biomonitoring.

Materials and methods.The content analysis of various domestic and foreign scientific sources, as well as regulatory documents of different countries related to human biomonitoring in industry was carried out. A comparison is made between different normative values of biological exposure indices in different countries.

Results and discussion. It is established that human biomonitoring as a method of assessing the impact of chemicals on human health is already actively developing both in our country and abroad. The complexity of the evidence base based on the principles of evidence-based toxicology, which allows us to establish standard values for biomarkers in the human body due to a deep understanding of toxic and dynamic processes in the body, does not yet allow us to create a full-fledged regulatory framework and make the nature of human biomonitoring activities mandatory in the workplace. However, work in this direction is currently underway. At the same time, some countries have already developed a number of documents that allow for human biomonitoring at enterprises, despite their exclusively advisory nature.