Respirable dust and quartz exposure from three south African farms with sandy, sandy loam, and clay soils

Annals of Occupational Hygiene

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 634-643

  Swanepoel, Andrew J ^a   Kromhout, Hans ^b   Jinnah, Zubair A ^a   Portengen, Lützen ^b   Renton, Kevin ^a   Gardiner, Kerry ^a   Rees, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

agriculture; clay; quartz; sand; sand loam; silica; soil types

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN CONFERENCE OF GOVERNMENTAL INDUSTRIAL HYGIENISTS; CLAY SOIL; DETERMINANTS OF EXPOSURE; EXPOSURE DETERMINANTS; FREE STATE; LIMIT OF DETECTION; NON-PARAMETRIC TEST; RESPIRABLE DUST; SANDY LOAM SOILS; SANDY LOAMS; SANDY SOILS; SOIL TYPES; SOUTH AFRICA; THRESHOLD LIMIT VALUES; TIME-WEIGHTED AVERAGES;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DUST; FARMS; QUARTZ; SAND; SOIL CONDITIONERS;

CLAY;

ALUMINUM SILICATE; SILICON DIOXIDE;

AGRICULTURE; AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLAY; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICLE SIZE; SOIL; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICS; TIME;

AGRICULTURE; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ALUMINUM SILICATES; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; LIMIT OF DETECTION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; PARTICLE SIZE; QUARTZ; SILICON DIOXIDE; SOIL; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THRESHOLD LIMIT VALUES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79960383719     PISSN: 00034878     EISSN: 14753162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annhyg/mer025     Document Type: Article

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