Sankt-Peterburg, Russian Federation
The solar cell production requires additional methods for workers protection, as well as certain conditions and requirements for the premises to meet them. Solar cell factories are equipped with clean rooms, which meet high environmental and worker protection requirements. Research laboratories often do not meet such protection conditions. Therefore, most often the working conditions in such laboratories are insufficient. In two research laboratories was conducted a study for the elemental composition of hair of workers engaged in the solar cell production and the production methods improvement. As a result of the study it was found an increased content of rare and rare earth metals in some workers’ body and hair. This study allows assess the level of production processes impact on the worker in the studied activity area.
occupational safety, solar cells, rare and rare earth metals, toxicity, elemental composition of hair
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