Field survey on types of organic solvents used in enterprises of various sizes

International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health

Volumn 79, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 558-567

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

^a KYOTO INDUSTRIAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alcohols; Enterprise size; Hexane; Organic solvent; Toluene

Indexed keywords

1,2 DICHLOROBENZENE; 2 BUTANOL; 2 ETHOXYETHANOL; 2 PROPANOL; ACETIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; ACETONE; ALCOHOL DERIVATIVE; AROMATIC COMPOUND; CARBON DISULFIDE; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; CHLOROBENZENE; CHLOROFORM; CRESOL; DIOXANE; ESTER DERIVATIVE; ETHER; ETHER DERIVATIVE; HEXANE; ISOPENTYL ALCOHOL; KETONE DERIVATIVE; METHANOL; N,N DIMETHYLFORMAMIDE; ORGANIC SOLVENT; PENTYL ACETATE; STYRENE; TOLUENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; XYLENE;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; CLEANING; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; JAPAN; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MATERIAL COATING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL TOXICOLOGY; PAINTING; PRINTING; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKPLACE;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; COMMERCE; DATA COLLECTION; JAPAN; SOLVENTS;

EID: 33749643890     PISSN: 03400131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00420-005-0082-3     Document Type: Article

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