The effect of storage, handling and transport traumas on filter-mounted dusts

Annals of Occupational Hygiene

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 525-530

  Awan, Saeed ^a   Burgess, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR FILTERS; FILTRATION; LOADS (FORCES); MATERIALS HANDLING; SAMPLING; STORAGE (MATERIALS);

FILTER MOUNTED DUSTS; GLASS FIBER FILTERS; WEIGHT LOSS;

DUST;

ARTICLE; DUST EXPOSURE; FILTER; LABORATORY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WOOD DUST;

EID: 0030273219     PISSN: 00034878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0003-4878(96)00004-X     Document Type: Article

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