Monitoring of cotton dust and health risk assessment in small-scale weaving industry

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 184, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 4879-4888

  Tahir, Muhammad Wajid ^a   Mumtaz, Muhammad Waseem ^a   Tauseef, Shanza ^a   Sajjad, Muqadas ^a   Nazeer, Awais ^a   Farheen, Nazish ^a   Iqbal, Muddsar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUJRAT   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Hafizabad; Health risk; Medication; Particulate matter; Power looms; Weaving industry

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT SIZES; HAFIZABAD; MEDICATION; MULTIPLE COMPARISON; P-VALUES; PAKISTAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; SAMPLING STATIONS; SKIN INFECTION; WORKING HOURS;

DUST; HEALTH RISKS; LOOMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WEAVING;

TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

DISEASE INCIDENCE; DUST; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; INDOOR AIR; MONITORING SYSTEM; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; WORKING CONDITIONS;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; COTTON DUST; COUGHING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EYE INFECTION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PAKISTAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; SKIN INFECTION; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; BYSSINOSIS; COTTON FIBER; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PAKISTAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; TEXTILES; YOUNG ADULT;

HAFIZABAD; PAKISTAN; PUNJAB [PAKISTAN];

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

EID: 84864842669     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-011-2309-y     Document Type: Article

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