The challenges of controlling organic solvents in a paint factory due to solvent impurity

Industrial Health

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 326-332

  Jafari, Mohammad Javad ^a   Karimi, Ali ^b   Rezazadeh Azari, Mansor ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Paint manufacturing; Relative risk (RR); Risk assessment; Solvent; Ventilation standard (VS)

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; ORGANIC SOLVENT; PAINT; TOLUENE; XYLENE;

ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EVALUATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; INDUSTRY; INFORMATION; LEUKEMIA; LIFE; MONITORING; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLE; VAPOR; VENTILATOR; WORK; WORKER;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PAINT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOLVENTS; TOLUENE; VENTILATION; XYLENES;

EID: 68549105942     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.47.326     Document Type: Article

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