Abstract
The aim was to summarize the information in the literature on working conditions and professionally caused diseases in workers in contact with chrysotile-containing dust.During a 10-year-old literary search in Russian, Kazakh and English using the keywords «chrysotile asbestos», «employee health», «production environment», «risk factor», «professionally caused disease», «working conditions» from PubMed (Medline), eLibrary, Google Scholar databases.Assessing the health of the working population in the conditions of modern industry is becoming an urgent task that requires in-depth research of working conditions, lifestyle and health status of workers. According to the International Labour Organization, 160 million new cases of work-related diseases are registered annually in the world due to the effects of harmful industrial factors.Working conditions in the mining industry are associated with the release of dust, unfavorable microclimate, noise and vibration, which to one degree or another have a negative impact, it is the working conditions of workers that are the main risk factor for the formation of professional and production-related pathology.The problem of professionally caused diseases among workers of chrysotile production remains relevant and indicates the need for scientific epidemiological studies.