Use of Ambient Aerosol for Testing Agricultural Cabs for Protection Against Pesticide Aerosol

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• Personal Author:
  Gibbons D ; Hall, Ronald M. ; Heitbrink, William A. ; Reed, Laurence D.
• Description:
  The standard and test procedure provides a relatively convenient means of testing cabs for their ability to protect workers from pesticide and other aerosols. S525 was developed by collaboration between committee members from industry and government based upon the available information. The standard assumes that all of the pesticide aerosol is larger than 3 micro-m. Subsequent field evaluations by NIOSH researchers indicates that noticeable amounts of pesticide aerosol can be smaller than 3 micro-m. Presently, this issue is being addressed by the American Society of Agricultural Engineers committee. In practice, this standard is applied by driving the tractor over an open field and using ambient sampling to test the enclosure. If the ambient aerosol concentration is too low, aerosol generation by the cab's ventilation system becomes a noticeable source of bias in this testing. Although this test procedure appears to be relatively straight forward, the actual use of this standard requires some experience in the conduct of experimental work. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Aerosols Agriculture Dust Insecticides Occupational Health Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Aerosol-particles Agricultural-chemicals Agricultural-industry Agricultural-machinery Author Keywords: Pesticide Cabin Filtration Consensus Standard Dust-control Dust Control Instrumentation Occupational Health And Safety Pesticides Pesticides-and-agricultural-chemicals Sampling Sampling-methods Work-environment Work Environment Workers

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• ISSN:
  0271-3586
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DPSE - Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  75-76
• Volume:
  36
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000837
• Citation:
  Am J Ind Med 1999 Sep; 36(S1):75-76
• Contact Point Address:
  William A. Heitbrink, NIOSH, 4676 Columbia Parkway R-5, Cincinnati, OH 45226
• Email:
  wah2@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1999
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Industrial Medicine
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:aa9b6e67a6ceb269ff700aa3195f00d62dd25156d6a8047cf8b8f9fbf896cbf434fd55c536f7e611aa019f111fc4175d6560f38d9ebeb7c1dd91f704b830849a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/198211/cdc_198211_DS1.pdf
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