Relation of average and highest solvent vapor concentrations in workplaces in small to medium enterprises and large enterprises

Industrial Health

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 267-273

  Ukai, Hirohiko ^a   Ohashi, Fumiko ^a   Samoto, Hajime ^a   Fukui, Yoshinari ^a   Okamoto, Satoru ^a   Moriguchi, Jiro ^a   Ezaki, Takafumi ^a   Takada, Shiro ^a   Ikeda, Masayuki ^a  

^a KYOTO INDUSTRIAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Enterprise size; Exposure concentration; Organic solvent; Workplace concentration

Indexed keywords

SOLVENT; THINNER;

ARTICLE; CLEANING; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; GEOMETRY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; PRINTING; VAPOR; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKPLACE; WORKROOM AIR;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SOLVENTS; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 33646714618     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.44.267     Document Type: Article

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