Understanding workplace processes and factors that determine exposures to engineered nanomaterials

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• Personal Author:
  Bello D ; Stefaniak, Aleksandr B. ; Virji, M. Abbas ; Woskie SR
• Description:
  There is a critical need to understand the factors that influence engineered nanomaterial (ENM) exposures in the workplace. Such an understanding would aid in: identifying and prioritizing control measures; targeting future exposure measurements; and predicting worker exposures for work scenarios. This information could also be used in epidemiological studies. We propose a multitiered model in which information on exposure factors can be obtained at the macrolevel (examining differences in exposures between different ENM sectors or product types); the midlevel (examining differences in exposures between workplaces within the same ENM sector or product type); and the microlevel (examining differences in exposure between tasks or between ENM types during the same task). Further, within the microlevel, potential exposure factors are defined by a source-receptor model. We recommend that auxiliary data be collected systematically, along with exposure measurements, to enable analysis of exposure factors as well as the pooling of data across studies. Description provided by NIOSH
• Subjects:
  • Environmental Monitoring
  • Epidemiology
  • Hazardous Substances
  • Occupational Exposure
  • Occupational Health
  • Risk Assessment
  • Risk Factors
  • Safety
• Keywords:
  • Nanotechnology
  • Risk-analysis
  • Risk-factors
  • Hazardous-materials
  • Toxic-materials
  • Exposure-assessment
  • Occupational-exposure
  • Worker-health
  • Epidemiology
  • Task-performance
  More +
• ISSN:
  1077-3525
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies ; DRDS - Division of Respiratory Disease Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  365-377
• Volume:
  16
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20037920
• Citation:
  Int J Occup Environ Health 2010 Oct-Dec; 16(4):365-377
• Contact Point Address:
  Susan R. Woskie, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Department of Work Environment, Lowell, MA 01854 USA
• Email:
  Susan_Woskie@uml.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2011
• NORA Priority Area:
  Manufacturing
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/191836/cdc_191836_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 578.39 KB]
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:fac4f4714218e089d2415f293e9c04434ac85974379c61488f8c358f39c76b5ce13d0e0c96b02e3d1c273263ab0cfc665bf553a5876d520dc0cd4f2fb3e0bcdb