THE QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE WORKFORCE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF PROFESSIONAL DISEASE INCIDENCE IN THE PETROŞANI DEPRESSION

Abstract

This paper is focused on the study of professional morbidity caused by risk factors from the mining sector in the Petroşani Depression but also on analysing its influence on the quality of the workforce. Professional diseases generated in the coal-extraction industry,belonging to the category of degenerative diseases, profoundly affect the miners' state of health, who still form a high proportion of the active population (40%). In this context, it is necessary to correctly identify the professional risks and to take measures to limit them, as well as to initiate actions to diagnose and to treat people ill with silicosis. At the same time, the high incidence of professional disease cases also impose a series of changes in the profile and distribution of the workforce.

Keywords

• coal industry
• risk factors
• professional morbidity
• the active population's state of health