7TH EUROPEAN COKE AND IRONMAKING CONGRESS - ECIC 2016

A new German law, regulating the workers stress by Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH), was published in summer 2015. This article will outline the medical considerations that lead to this new regulation in overall and for cokemaking in detail. The author was involved in the working group preparing the new regulations representing the interests of domestic cokemaking industry. All German coking plants started a measuring campaign to determine the actual workers stress at domestic facilities and developed a measure catalogue for reduction effective workers stress. The article will outline some results of this campaign and illustrate the concrete protection measures realized at coking plant Schwelgern in Duisburg.