Evaluation of the Respirable Dust Dosimeter for Real-Time Assessment of Airborne Respirable Coal Mine Dust Exposures

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• Personal Author:
  He H ; Luna PC ; Marple, V. A. ; Mutmansky, Jan M. ; Olson, B. A. ; Ramani, R. V. ; Volkwein, Jon C.
• Description:
  An encouraging development in the search for an instrument that will provide a real-time measurement of the airborne respirable dust exposure of a coal miner is the Volkwein Respirable Dust Dosimeter (RDD). The performance of the Respirable Dust Dosimeter (RDD) was evaluated against that of the Personal Gravimetric Sampler (GRD) under identical conditions in both underground mines and the laboratory. In all, 114 RDDs (48 in underground mines and 66 in laboratory) were used side-by-side with GRDs in carefully designed experiments to generate comparative data. Data from experiments indicate that the respirable dust dosimeter can be used to assess the cumulative respirable dust exposure of an underground coal miner on a real-time basis. In this paper, the details of the design, results, and conclusions of the underground and the laboratory experiments are presented. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Coal Coal Mining Dust Mining Occupational Health Particulate Matter Safety
• Keywords:
  Airborne-dusts Coal-dust Coal-miners Coal-mining Mining-industry Respirable-dust Underground-miners Underground-mining
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• ISBN:
  9058093875
• Publisher:
  Balkema
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRL - Pittsburgh Research Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20023126
• Citation:
  Mine Ventilation: Proceedings of the North American/Ninth US Mine Ventilation Symposium, June 8-12 2002, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. De Souza E ed. Lisse, Netherlands: A. A. Balkema, 2002 Oct; :579-586
• Editor(s):
  De Souza E
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2003
• NORA Priority Area:
  Research Tools and Approaches: Exposure Assessment Methods
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Mine Ventilation: Proceedings of the North American/Ninth US Mine Ventilation Symposium, June 8-12 2002, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:27be566588a40b640b11fe832f44375111d9ee8daf067f872e5a607b9da4bb15dbe846582148301104a8b4aff72f8262881246d33ff4b30d1d2bdd1e803e8dbf
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/220614/cdc_220614_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 7.64 MB ]