Lower Vapor Concentrations in Solvent Workplaces in Larger-Scale Enterprises than in Smaller-Scale Enterprises, and Exceptions

Industrial Health

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 252-259

  Ukai, Hirohiko ^a   Okamoto, Satoru ^a   Takada, Shiro ^a   Yamada, Chikahisa ^a   Ikeda, Masayuki ^a  

^a KYOTO INDUSTRIAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Enterprise size; Occupational hygiene; Organic solvent; Vapor concentration

Indexed keywords

2 BUTANONE; 2 BUTOXYETHANOL; 2 ETHOXYETHANOL; 2 PROPANOL; 4 METHYL 2 PENTANONE; ACETIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; ACETIC ACID ISOBUTYL ESTER; ACETONE; ALCOHOL; BUTANOL; CHLOROFORM; CYCLOHEXANONE; DICHLOROMETHANE; ETHYLBENZENE; HEXANE; HEXANOIC ACID; ISOBUTANOL; METHANOL; ORGANIC SOLVENT; STYRENE; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TOLUENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XYLENE;

ARTICLE; CLEANING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAINTING; PRINTING; VAPOR; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKPLACE;

EID: 2142808879     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.42.252     Document Type: Article

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