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Asbestos Exposure among Mitering Workers
The objectives are to compare the airborne asbestos concentrations resulted from mitering of abestos cement roof sheets by a high-speed motor and a hand saw, and to monitor whether other workers near the test sites are vulnerable to the fibers exceeding the occupational exposure limit. Four test cas...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3443699/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23019536 http://dx.doi.org/10.5491/SHAW.2012.3.3.235 |
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author | Phanprasit, Wantanee Sujirarat, Dusit Musigapong, Pirutchada Sripaiboonkij, Penpatra Chaikittiporn, Chalermchai |
author_facet | Phanprasit, Wantanee Sujirarat, Dusit Musigapong, Pirutchada Sripaiboonkij, Penpatra Chaikittiporn, Chalermchai |
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description | The objectives are to compare the airborne asbestos concentrations resulted from mitering of abestos cement roof sheets by a high-speed motor and a hand saw, and to monitor whether other workers near the test sites are vulnerable to the fibers exceeding the occupational exposure limit. Four test cases were carried out and altogether 7 personal and 4 area air samples were collected. The NIOSH method 7400 was employed for the air samplings and analysis. Using the phase contrast microscopy, fiber counting was conducted under Rule A. The study showed that the fiber concentration medians for personal air samples gathered from the two tools were 4.11 fibers/cc (ranged: 1.33-12.41 fibers/cc) and 0.13 fibers/cc (ranged: 0.01-5.00 fibers/cc) respectively. The median for the area samples was 0.59 fibers/cc (ranged: 0.14-3.32 fibers/cc). Comparing each study case, the concentration level caused by the high-speed motor saw was more than twice that of the hand saw. According to the area samples, the workers nearby the test site are at risk from high exposure to asbestos. |
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spelling | pubmed-34436992012-09-27 Asbestos Exposure among Mitering Workers Phanprasit, Wantanee Sujirarat, Dusit Musigapong, Pirutchada Sripaiboonkij, Penpatra Chaikittiporn, Chalermchai Saf Health Work Case Report The objectives are to compare the airborne asbestos concentrations resulted from mitering of abestos cement roof sheets by a high-speed motor and a hand saw, and to monitor whether other workers near the test sites are vulnerable to the fibers exceeding the occupational exposure limit. Four test cases were carried out and altogether 7 personal and 4 area air samples were collected. The NIOSH method 7400 was employed for the air samplings and analysis. Using the phase contrast microscopy, fiber counting was conducted under Rule A. The study showed that the fiber concentration medians for personal air samples gathered from the two tools were 4.11 fibers/cc (ranged: 1.33-12.41 fibers/cc) and 0.13 fibers/cc (ranged: 0.01-5.00 fibers/cc) respectively. The median for the area samples was 0.59 fibers/cc (ranged: 0.14-3.32 fibers/cc). Comparing each study case, the concentration level caused by the high-speed motor saw was more than twice that of the hand saw. According to the area samples, the workers nearby the test site are at risk from high exposure to asbestos. Occupational Safety and Health Research Institute 2012-09 2012-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3443699/ /pubmed/23019536 http://dx.doi.org/10.5491/SHAW.2012.3.3.235 Text en Copyright © 2012 by Safety and Health at Work (SH@W) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Phanprasit, Wantanee Sujirarat, Dusit Musigapong, Pirutchada Sripaiboonkij, Penpatra Chaikittiporn, Chalermchai Asbestos Exposure among Mitering Workers |
title | Asbestos Exposure among Mitering Workers |
title_full | Asbestos Exposure among Mitering Workers |
title_fullStr | Asbestos Exposure among Mitering Workers |
title_full_unstemmed | Asbestos Exposure among Mitering Workers |
title_short | Asbestos Exposure among Mitering Workers |
title_sort | asbestos exposure among mitering workers |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3443699/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23019536 http://dx.doi.org/10.5491/SHAW.2012.3.3.235 |
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