Airborne concentrations of asbestos onboard maritime shipping vessels (1978-1992)

Annals of Occupational Hygiene

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 267-279

  Murbach, Dana M ^a   Madl, Amy K ^a   Unice, Ken M ^b   Knutsen, Jeffrey S ^a   Chapman, Pamela S ^a   Brown, Jay L ^c   Paustenbach, Dennis J ^a  

^a CARDNO CHEMRISK   (United States)

^b ChemRisk   (United States)

^c SafeX Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Asbestos; Industrial hygiene; Maritime; Occupational exposure; Retrospective exposure assessment; Seamen

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; BUILDING MATERIALS; CARBON NANOTUBES; CHARGED PARTICLES; CUBIC BORON NITRIDE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON OPTICS; ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRONS; HEALTH; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INDUCTION HEATING; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROSCOPES; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; OIL TANKERS; PIGMENTS; PULSE CODE MODULATION; SCANNING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SHIPS; TANKERS (SHIPS); TRANSIENT ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INSULATION; MACHINE SHOPS; MACHINERY; WATERWAY TRANSPORTATION;

(060.2410) FIBERS; AIR MONITORING; AIR SAMPLES; AIRBORNE CONCENTRATIONS; ASBESTOS EXPOSURE; BULK SAMPLES; BULK SAMPLING; CARGO VESSELS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DETECTION LIMIT (DL); ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (TEM AND SEM); FLOOR TILES; MARITIME SHIPPING; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY;

ASBESTOS;

ASBESTOS;

AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SHIPPING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VESSEL;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ASBESTOS; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHIPS; UNITED STATES;

AIRBORNE CONCENTRATIONS; ASBESTOS CONTAINING MATERIALS; MARITIME; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERMISSIBLE EXPOSURE LIMITS; PHASE-CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; RETROSPECTIVE EXPOSURE ASSESSMENTS; SEAMEN;

EID: 45149093788     PISSN: 00034878     EISSN: 14753162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annhyg/men015     Document Type: Article

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