Assessment of welders exposure to carcinogen metals from manual metal arc welding in gas transmission pipelines, Iran

Iranian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 61-70

  Golbabaei, F ^a   Seyedsomea, M ^b   Ghahri, A ^a   Arefian, S ^a   Shirkhanloo, H ^c   Khadem, M ^a   Hassani, H ^a   Sadeghi, N ^a   Dinari, B ^d  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c Iranian Petroleum Industry Health Research Institute   (Iran)

^d HSEQ Department   (Iran)

Author keywords

Carcinogen metals; Gas transmission pipelines welders; Iran; Welding fume

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867559487     PISSN: 22516085     EISSN: 22516093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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