Lead and Hemoglobin Level in Blood of Occupationally Exposed Workers at Brack Alshatti Area, Libya

The targets of lead toxicity are all the body organs and many biochemical processes and heme synthesis is one of those. The present study includes 43 workers out of which 20 are working at fuel station and car maintenance workshop ie. (13 fuel station and 7 car maintenance workshop).These workers were considered as lead occupationally exposed one. Among these 50% was smoker. 23 workers were non lead occupationally exposed one and non of them were smoker and painters. This study was conducted to determine the level of lead and hemoglobin in the blood of these workers. Analysis results show elevated level of blood lead, in occupationally and non occupationally exposed group of workers with respect to normal value. Hemoglobin values were within normal range for all workers. Its conclude based on our finding that in spit of high level of lead,there was no adverse symptoms are observed however there is a need for detail investigation on toxicity aspect of lead and degree of impairments in functional activities of different organs