Direct-Reading Instruments for Aerosols: A Review for Occupational Health and Safety Professionals Part 1: Instruments and Good Practices

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• Personal Author:
  Anderson, Kern E. ; Cauda, Emanuele G. ; O'Shaughnessy PT ; Park JH ; Sheehan MJ ; Vosburgh DJH
• Description:
  With advances in technology, there are an increasing number of direct-reading instruments available to occupational health and safety professionals to evaluate occupational aerosol exposures. Despite the wide array of direct-reading instruments available to professionals, adoption of direct-reading technology to monitor workplace exposures has been limited, partly due to a lack of knowledge on how the instruments operate, how to select an appropriate instrument, and challenges in data analysis techniques. This paper presents a review of direct-reading aerosol instruments available to occupational health and safety professionals, describes the principles of operation, provides guidance on instrument selection based on the workplace and exposure, and discusses data analysis techniques in an effort to overcome these barriers to adoption. This paper does not cover all direct-reading instruments for aerosols but only those that an occupational health and safety professional could use in a workplace to evaluate exposures. Therefore, this paper focuses on instruments that have the most potential for workplace use due to their robustness, past workplace use, and price with regards to return on investment. The instruments covered in this paper include those that measure aerosol number concentration, mass concentration and aerosol size distributions. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Aerosols Occupational Health Particulate Matter Safety
• Keywords:
  Aerosol Particles Aerosol Sampling Analyzing Data Author Keywords: Aerosols Direct-reading Instruments Direct-reading Methods Monitoring Systems Optical Particle Counters Particle Counters Particle Size Analysis Particulate Sampling Methods Real-time Monitors

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• Series:
  Mining Publications
• ISSN:
  1545-9624
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Indiana ; Iowa ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 7 ; Pennsylvania ; West Virginia ; Wisconsin
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PMRD - Pittsburgh Mining Research Division ; RHD - Respiratory Health Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  96-705
• Volume:
  19
• Issue:
  12
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20066150
• Citation:
  J Occup Environ Hyg 2022 Dec; 19(12):696-705
• Contact Point Address:
  Donna J. H. Vosburgh, Department of Occupational & Environmental Safety & Health, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Whitewater, WI
• Email:
  vosburgd@uww.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2023
• 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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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/215583/cdc_215583_DS1.pdf
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