Occupational exposure to nano-objects and their agglomerates and aggregates across various life cycle stages; A broad-scale exposure study

Annals of Occupational Hygiene

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 681-704

  Bekker, Cindy ^a,b   Kuijpers, Eelco ^b   Brouwer, Derk H ^b   Vermeulen, Roel ^a   Fransman, Wouter ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Decision logic; Multi source exposure assessment; Nanomaterials; NOAA; Occupational exposure; Personal exposure

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; AGGREGATES; COMPUTER CIRCUITS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

DECISION LOGIC; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; NOAA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERSONAL EXPOSURES;

LIFE CYCLE;

AIR POLLUTANT; NANOMATERIAL;

AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; NETHERLANDS; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICLE SIZE; PROCEDURES; WORKPLACE;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; NANOSTRUCTURES; NETHERLANDS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; PARTICLE SIZE; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84941585390     PISSN: 00034878     EISSN: 14753162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annhyg/mev023     Document Type: Article

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