[The risk of inhalable wood dust: assessment of workers exposure wood working factories]. / Il rischio da polveri di legno inalabili: valutazione dell'esposizione professionale nelle falegnamerie.
G Ital Med Lav Ergon
; 29(3 Suppl): 830-2, 2007.
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ABSTRACT
The International Agency for Research on Cancer RC) has classified wood dust as carcinogenic to humans based on demiological and experimental evidence. Exposure to wood dust may use respiratory and dermal symptoms and diseases. The aim of this work was to estimate occupational exposure to inhalable wood dust adopting the formal procedure described by UNI EN 689/97. The exposure of 23 workers in three different working day was measured. In total, 69 personal air samplings were carried out at five wood working factories. Inhalable fraction of airborne dust was collected on 5 microm pore size, 25 mm diameter PVC filters utilizing the IOM samplers. The quantity of the wood dust was determined with gravimetric method. The results show that about 13% of the exposure values exceed the limit of 5 mg/m3 specified by the Italian Law Decree 66/2000 and about 48% of personal exposures are lower then the limit value. Prevention measures, technological solutions and personal protection equipment should be adopted in order to reduce worker's exposure.
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Assunto principal:
Madeira
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Exposição Ocupacional
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Poluentes Atmosféricos
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Poeira
Tipo de estudo:
Etiology_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Humans
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It
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G Ital Med Lav Ergon
Ano de publicação:
2007
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Article