Exposure of Welders and Other Metal Workers to ELF Magnetic Fields

Bioelectromagnetics

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 470-477

  Skotte, Jørgen H ^a,c   Hjollund, Henrik I ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c Department of Chemistry   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Magnetic fields; Shipyard; Welding processes

Indexed keywords

EXPOSURE METERS; GAS METAL ARC WELDING; GAS WELDING; MAGNETIC FIELDS; SHIPYARDS;

EFFECTIVE TIME; EXTREMELY LOW FREQUENCIES; EXTREMELY LOW FREQUENCY MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC-FIELD; MANUAL METAL ARCS; MEASUREMENTS OF; METAL ARC WELDING; PERSONAL EXPOSURES; WELDING PROCESS; WORKERS';

SHIPS;

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HUMAN; METALLURGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; TIME; WELDING;

COHORT STUDIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HUMANS; METALLURGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; TIME FACTORS; WELDING;

EID: 0030624895     PISSN: 01978462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1521-186x(1997)18:7<470::aid-bem2>3.0.co;2-%23     Document Type: Article

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