Comparison of Exposure Measurements Stored in European Databases on Occupational Air Pollutants and Definition of Core Information

Vinzents, Peter; Carton, B.; Fjeldstad, Per Einar; Rajan, Bob; Stamm, Roger

doi:10.1080/1047322x.1995.10389046

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“…Set up in several countries at the beginning of the 1980s, these databanks contain measurements made by governmental agencies for various purposes including regulatory activities. Countries for which such databanks have been described in the literature include France (Vincent and Jeandel, 2001), United Kingdom (Burns and Beaumont, 1989), Germany (Gabriel, 2006;Koppisch et al, 2012), Norway (Lenvik et al, 1999), Denmark (Vinzents et al, 1995), Finland (Kauppinen, 2001), Singapore (Tang et al, 2006), Italy (Scarselli et al, 2007), and the United States (Stewart and Rice, 1990). After more than 30 years of data recording for some databanks, the amount of data available has reached a critical mass to permit exposure portraits to be drawn, i.e.…”

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Workplace Measurements by the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration since 1979: Descriptive Analysis and Potential Uses for Exposure Assessment

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The Annals of Occupational Hygiene

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IMIS and the CEHD datasets represent the biggest source of multi-industry exposure data in the USA and should be considered as a valuable source of information for occupational exposure assessment. The lack of empirical data on biases, adequate interpretation of non-detects in OSHA data, complicated by suspected differential under-reporting, remain the principal challenges to the valid estimation of average exposure conditions. We advocate additional comparisons between IMIS and CEHD data and discuss analytical strategies that may play a key role in meeting these challenges.

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Workplace Measurements by the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration since 1979: Descriptive Analysis and Potential Uses for Exposure Assessment

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The Annals of Occupational Hygiene

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“…Hierarchical coding systems are necessary to comprehensively store and classify data according to industry, job title, and activities ('t Mannetje and Kromhout, 2003;Vinzents et al, 1995). Standard coding systems for industry (e.g.…”

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Classification of Occupational Activities for Assessment of Inhalation Exposure

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The Annals of Occupational Hygiene

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There is a large variety of activities in workplaces that can lead to emission of substances. Coding systems based on determinants of emission have so far not been developed. In this paper, a system of Activity Classes and Activity Subclasses is proposed for categorizing activities involving chemical use. Activity Classes share their so-called 'emission generation mechanisms' and physical state of the product handled and the underlying determinants of emission. A number of (industrial) stakeholders actively participated in testing and fine-tuning the system. With the help of these stakeholders, it was found to be relatively easy to allocate a large number of activities to the Activity Classes and Activity Subclasses. The system facilitates a more structured classification of activities in exposure databases, a structured analysis of the analogy of exposure activities, and a transparent quantification of the activity emission potential in (new) exposure assessment models. The first use of the system is in the Advanced REACH Tool.

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“…Even where available, they often do not represent full-shift personal exposures because the data were collected to evaluate compliance with regulatory standards, to evaluate controls, or to assess exposure levels during unusual conditions or because the sampling technology did not permit such evaluations. If the measurements were taken for expediency, however, they may be comparable to full-shift exposures (39). For other purposes, the industrial hygiene community has not yet developed a satisfactory method for adjusting such measurements to longterm TWA values, and more research needs to be done in this area.…”

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