Fire fighting trainers' exposure to carcinogenic agents in smoke diving simulators

Toxicology Letters

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 61-65

  Laitinen, Juha ^a   Mäkelä, Mauri ^a   Mikkola, Jouni ^a   Huttu, Ismo ^b  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^b Pelastusopisto Finland   (Finland)

Author keywords

1 Naphthol; 1 Pyrenol; Benzene; Dermal exposure; Fire fighter; Muconic acid; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; Smoke diving; Smoke diving simulators

Indexed keywords

1 NAPHTHOL; 1 PYRENOL; BENZENE; CARCINOGEN; CYANIDE; FORMALDEHYDE; HYDROGEN CYANIDE; HYDROXYBENZO[A]PYRENE; MUCONIC ACID; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; POLYSTYRENE; PROPANE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONIFER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIRE; FIRE FIGHTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYGIENE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; SIMULATOR; SMOKE DIVING SIMULATOR; SPRUCE; WOOD;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARCINOGENS; CYANIDES; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FIRES; FORMALDEHYDE; HUMANS; NAPHTHOLS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; PYRENES; SORBIC ACID;

CONIFEROPHYTA; PICEA;

EID: 72949104380     PISSN: 03784274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2009.06.864     Document Type: Article

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