Industrial Hygiene: Past Lessons, Present Challenges, and Future Directions: Data Standardization

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• Personal Author:
  Baker J ; Dahm, Matthew M. ; Shockey TM ; Wurzelbacher, Steven J.
• Description:
  The collection of industrial hygiene (IH) air, surface, and noise data is a critical task at the center of the IH profession. Industrial hygienists usually collect occupational exposure measurements using sampling methods that have been validated by Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) or National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to protect workers from chemical, biological, and physical hazards. But beyond the information required on a standard chain of custody form (sampler/media type, analysis method, sample time, sample volume, and so on), any additional data elements and variables collected are often left to the discretion of the hygienist. ... American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) has increased efforts to promote data quality and standardization by including an appendix on data quality in the latest edition of "A Strategy for Assessing and Managing Occupational Exposures," which was published in 2015. This appendix introduces literature on how to evaluate historical or current IH data quality and includes a checklist of data elements adapted from the literature, including the 1996 special report in the Applied journal. The checklist serves as a source for comparison, providing a method for evaluating current IH forms to examine which data fields are being captured and how. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Quality Control Safety
• Keywords:
  Data Processing Exposure Assessment Industrial Hygiene Industrial Hygienists Occupational Exposure Quality Control Sampling Sampling Methods Standards
• ISSN:
  1066-7660
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 6 ; Texas
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DFSE - Division of Field Studies and Engineering
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  20-25
• Volume:
  31
• Issue:
  12
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20061740
• Citation:
  Synergist 2020 Dec; 31(12):20-25
• Email:
  tshockey@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2021
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  The Synergist
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/225151/cdc_225151_DS1.pdf
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