Sensitization and chronic beryllium disease at a primary manufacturing facility, Part 1: Historical exposure reconstruction

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 247-258

  Abbas Virji, M ^a   Park, Ji Young ^a   Stefaniak, Aleksandr B ^a   Stanton, Marcia L ^a   Day, Gregory A ^a   Kent, Michael S ^b   Kreiss, Kathleen ^a   Schuler, Christine R ^a  

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

^b Alloy Customer Technical Service Department   (United States)

Author keywords

Average exposure; Cumulative exposure; Peak exposure; Respirable exposure; Submicron exposure; Total exposure

Indexed keywords

AERIAL SURVEY; BERYLLIUM; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH RISK; HISTORICAL RECORD; MANUFACTURING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIMARY SECTOR INDUSTRY; RECONSTRUCTION; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; SAMPLING;

AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; BERYLLIOSIS; CHRONIC BERYLLIOSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIZATION; TREND STUDY; WORKER;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; BERYLLIOSIS; BERYLLIUM; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICLE SIZE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84860729842     PISSN: 03553140     EISSN: 1795990X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5271/sjweh.3188     Document Type: Article

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