A field evaluation of the impact of transfer efficiency on worker exposure during spray painting

Annals of Occupational Hygiene

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 103-112

  Tan, Yu Mei ^a,b   Flynn, Michael R ^a   Buller, Thomas S ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Exposure modeling; High volume low pressure spray gun; Spray painting; Transfer efficiency

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; PERSONNEL; STATISTICAL METHODS; EFFICIENCY; ESTIMATION; FUNCTIONS; PAINT SPRAYING; SPRAY GUNS;

TRANSFER EFFICIENCY;

PAINT SPRAYING; PAINTING;

PAINT;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; HUMAN; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; REPRODUCIBILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT; EXPOSURE MODELING; GENERAL METHODOLOGIES; LOW PRESSURES; SPRAY GUN TRANSFER EFFICIENCY; STATISTICAL DIFFERENCES; THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS; TRANSFER EFFICIENCY;

AEROSOLS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PAINT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0036370079     PISSN: 00034878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annhyg/mef006     Document Type: Article

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