A field evaluation of techniques used to construct a quantitative job exposure matrix

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• Personal Author:
  Martyny J ; McCammon, Charles S. ; Schonbeck M ; Zaebst D
• Description:
  Introduction: A quantitative job exposure matrix (JEM) was created for historical exposures to a number of chemicals, including beryllium, at a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) site. Monitoring data were limited or non-existent for many jobs and exposures, and much of the JEM was completed by using qualitative information obtained from employee interviews, and published data for similar operations and tasks from industry or other DOE sites. Since all available data had been used in estimating exposures, the estimates could not be directly validated at the DOE site. Instead, these techniques were evaluated by constructing a similar beryllium JEM at a separate industrial site (plant A, which also machined beryllium), and comparing the estimates to an independent set of beryllium measurement data, withheld from the estimation process, collected in 1996 and 1997 at plant A. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Automobiles Environmental Exposure Environmental Monitoring Epidemiology Hearing Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Noise Noise, Occupational Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety Surveys And Questionnaires

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• Keywords:
  Automotive-industry Employee-exposure Exposure-assessment Health-surveys Hearing-conservation Industrial-environment Industrial-exposures Job-analysis Noise-exposure Noise-levels Noise-measurement Qualitative-analysis Sampling-methods Sound

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• ISBN:
  9789170456077
• ISSN:
  0346-7821
• Publisher:
  Arbetslivsinstitutet
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Abstract or Summary
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 8
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  172-175
• Issue:
  10
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20041291
• Citation:
  Arbete och Halsa 2001 Jun; 2001(10):172-175
• Contact Point Address:
  D. Zaebst, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, OH 45226
• Email:
  dzaebst@cdc.gov
• Editor(s):
  Hagsberg M; Knave B; Lillienberg L; Westberg H
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2001
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Arbete och Halsa (X2001 - exposure assessment in epidemiology and practice, June 10-13, 2001, Göteborg, Sweden)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/193894/cdc_193894_DS1.pdf
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