The effectiveness of DustBubbles on dust control in the process of concrete drilling

Safety Science

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1284-1289

  Fan, Shichao ^a   Wong, Yuen wah ^a   Shen, Liyin ^a   Lu, Weisheng ^b   Wang, Tao ^a   Yu, Ann ^a   Shen, Qiping ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Concrete drilling; DustBubble; Respirable dust; Respirable silica dust

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; CONSTRUCTION WORKERS; CONTROL MEASURES; CRYSTALLINE SILICA; DUSTBUBBLE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; HIGH EXPOSURES; HONG-KONG; HUMAN HEALTH; RESPIRABLE DUST; RESPIRABLE SILICA DUST; SHORT PERIODS; SILICA DUST;

DUST CONTROL; QUARTZ;

HEALTH RISKS;

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONCRETE DRILLING; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; DUST CONTROL; DUSTBUBBLE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; SILICOSIS; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84862818467     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: 18791042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2012.01.001     Document Type: Article

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