Workplace air quality: international consensus standards

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• Personal Author:
  Ashley, Kevin E. ; Breuer D ; Brisson MJ ; Harper M ; Lee EG ; Thom C
• Description:
  Standardization is essential to fostering the use of harmonized methods for exposure assessment in occupational hygiene nationally and internationally. A standardized method for sampling and analysis provides data of known quality and reliability through the assurance of acceptable accuracy or uncertainty, which can then be compared to results collected at other times or in other places. Consensus standards can be used by regulatory agencies or advisory bodies to determine compliance with occupational exposure limit values. In addition, harmonized methods can be employed to generate high-quality databases of exposure results that can be used for other purposes such as epidemiological studies. Efforts have been made to promulgate consensus standards to maximize such benefits for professionals in the occupational hygiene field throughout the world. Consensus is reached through input from many stakeholders, occupational hygienists, industrial hygiene chemists, manufacturers, national authorities and government representatives, along with many other professionals in private industry, academia and nonprofit organizations. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollution Atmosphere Environmental Exposure Epidemiology Occupational Health Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Air Quality ASTM International Author Keywords: Air Quality Comité Européen De Normalisation (CEN) Consensus Standards Exposure Levels Exposure Limits International Organization For Standardization (ISO) Sampling Standards Work Environment Workplace Atmospheres

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• ISSN:
  1545-9624
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 5 ; South Carolina ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  HELD - Health Effects Laboratory Division ; DART - Division of Applied Research and Technology
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  13
• Issue:
  7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20047683
• Citation:
  J Occup Environ Hyg 2016 Jul; 13(7):D111-D117
• Contact Point Address:
  Eun Gyung Lee, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Health Effects Laboratory Division, Exposure Assessment Branch, 1095 Willowdale Road, Morgantown, WV 26505
• Email:
  dtq5@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2016
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/202686/cdc_202686_DS1.pdf
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