Monitoring of personal exposure on physical and chemical hazards in real mining areas

The modern mining industry, charactherised with ever increasing intensification of production processes and usage of more powerful diesel equipment , increases the risk of exposure to employees of potential physical and chemical hazards (dust, gases, noise). On the other hand the trend of more stringent legal regulations and reducing allowable limits of exposure to physical and chemical hazards, becomes limiting factors that may seriously endangered the development of this industry. Key words: exposure, hazards, gases, noise