Predicting historical dust and wood dust exposure in sawmills: Model development and validation

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 650-658

  Friesen, M ^a   Davies, H ^a   Teschke, K ^a   Marion, S ^a   Demers, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Exposure modeling; Retrospective exposure assessment; Validity; Wood dust

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUST EXPOSURE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; INHALATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAWDUST; VALIDATION PROCESS; WOOD DUST;

COHORT STUDIES; DUST; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WOOD;

EID: 28444434502     PISSN: 15459624     EISSN: 15459632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15459620500391676     Document Type: Article

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