Personal sampling in parallel with open-face filter cassettes and iom samplers for inhalable dust—implications for occupational exposure limits

Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 263-276

  Lidén, Göran ^a   Melin, Birgitta ^b   Lidblom, Anders ^b   Lindberg, Kerstin ^b   Norén, Jan Olof ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKING LIFE   (Sweden)

^b Swedish Work Environment Authority   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREATHING; DEVICE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FILTER; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; INHALATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORGANIC DUST; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FILTRATION; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 0034058333     PISSN: 1047322X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/104732200301584     Document Type: Article

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