[Methods to evaluate occupational risk in industrial medicine]

The authors present methods to evaluate occupational risk in industrial medicine. Those methods are based on MACs and MALs with consideration of WHO and ISO concepts, European instructions and other countries' experience. The authors justified hygienic criteria for evaluation and classification of working conditions, quantitative criteria to evaluate links of health disorders and work, methods to analyze structure and degrees of occupational risk, to analyze etiology relationships between work conditions and health disorders. The article covers based categories of occupational risks according to socially valuable medical and biologic parameters. Methodology is a basis for realization of new Federal Laws on safety and occupational medicine.