Development of retrospective quantitative and qualitative job-exposure matrices for exposures at a beryllium processing facility

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 361-365

  Couch, James R ^a   Petersen, Martin ^a   Rice, Carol ^b   Schubauer Berigan, Mary K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BERYLLIUM;

AIRBORNE ALGA; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; BREATHING; GEOMETRY; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; JOB EXPOSURE MATRIX; METRIC SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; BERYLLIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 79953826693     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2010.056630     Document Type: Article

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