VEM Goes Mobile: “Helmet-Cam’ Allows Video Exposure Monitoring for Mobile Workers

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• Personal Author:
  Joy G
• Description:
  Since the 1980s, video exposure monitoring (VEM)-a method that combines video monitoring with datalogging environmental instruments-has been used to evaluate exposures for workers during job activities that are performed in relatively fixed locations. Over the years, advances in video recorders, video file formats, exposure monitors, and software have increased VEM's viability as a monitoring method. However, one aspect of VEM has not changed: the restriction of its application to fixed work locations. The challenge of monitoring mobile workers-workers who do not have a fixed work location such as a plant or mill, or who do not work inside a cab with an effective air-cleaning system-persists. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Dust Explosions Mining Occupational Health Safety Sulfides
• Keywords:
  Aerosol-particles Aerosols Dust-exposure Dust-particles Dusts Environmental-exposure Environmental-health Environmental-health-monitoring Exposure-levels Humans Men Monitoring-systems Monitors Particulate-dust Particulates Respirable-dust Respiration Tools Training Women Work-environment Workers

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• Series:
  Mining Publications
• ISSN:
  1066-7660
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OMSHR - Office of Mine Safety and Health Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  24-27
• Volume:
  24
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20042679
• Citation:
  Synergist 2013 Mar; 24(3):24-27
• Email:
  gej3@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2013
• NORA Priority Area:
  Mining
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  The Synergist
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/227540/cdc_227540_DS1.pdf
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