Determinants of dust exposure in tunnel construction work

Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 783-796

  Bakke, Berit ^a   Stewart, Patricia ^b   Eduard, Wijnand ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Norway)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Construction Industry; Construction Workers; Determinants; Exposure Assessment; Respirable Dust; Total Dust; Tunnel; Quartz

Indexed keywords

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CONSTRUCTION WORK; CONTROL STRATEGY; DUST EXPOSURE; HUMAN; NORWAY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTILATOR; WORKER; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COHORT STUDIES; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; MALE; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PARTICLE SIZE; PROBABILITY; QUARTZ; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING STUDIES; SILICOSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0036841158     PISSN: 1047322X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10473220290096032     Document Type: Article

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