Occupational Health Monitoring Articles
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Countertop and Stone Fabrication Workers and Silicosis Risks from Engineered Products
Earlier this fall, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a new report in the agency's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). The article examined 18 cases of silicosis, including two fatalities, which occurred in stone fabrication workers. Silicosis is caused by exposure to respirable crystalline silica dust and is a progressive, disabling and often fatal lung ...
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Monitor for detecting and assessing exposure to airborne nanoparticles
Abstract An important safety aspect of the workplace environment concerns the severity of its air pollution with nanoparticles (NP; \100 nm) and ultrafine particles (UFP; \300 nm). Depending on their size and chemical nature, exposure to these particles through inhalation can be hazardous because of their intrinsic ability to deposit in the deep lung regions and the possibility to subsequently ...
By Oxility BV
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Application of thermal desorption to occupational exposure monitoring
Occupational hygiene, in its broadest sense, is the recognition, evaluation and control of health hazards arising from work – a trained hygienist needs to understand a range of subjects from health and safety legislation through to toxicology, hazardous substances, physical agents, exposure assessment and exposure control strategies. To some extent, occupational hygiene is relevant in all ...
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Low-dose monitoring for occupational exposure and the influence of measurement accuracy
This paper presents the evolution of individual radiation doses received by occupationally exposed workers. The individual doses accumulated over the period 2000-2007 correlated to nuclear laboratory and radiation source (gamma, X-rays) types are in the low radiation range. Dose equivalent Hp(10) was measured by a film dosimeter system; the influence of the measurement accuracy on the results was ...
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