Occupational exposures to asbestos in the steel industry: An analysis of the AISI sampling campaign (1989–1997).
The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) gathered data between 1989 and 1997 to build an "objective database" to further understand the occupational exposures generated by the few asbestos-containing materials remaining at various steelmaking companies at this time. This paper analyzed the 520 s...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Occupational & Environmental Hygiene Vol. 21; no. 6; pp. 439 - 450 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
May/Jun2024
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=177713807&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 177713807 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 15459624 V1L jtl: Journal of Occupational & Environmental Hygiene issn: 15459624 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: May/Jun2024 vid: 21 iid: 6 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania artinfo: ui: 177713807 176528493 177713807 177713807 10.1080/15459624.2024.2328804 177713807 ppf: 439 ppct: 11 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Occupational exposures to asbestos in the steel industry: An analysis of the AISI sampling campaign (1989–1997). aug: au: Stevens, Michael E. Brew, David W. Paustenbach, Dennis J. affil: Paustenbach and Associates, Jackson, Wyoming sug: subj: Occupational Exposure Evaluation Asbestos Analysis Occupational Exposure Risk Factors Risk Assessment Steel Manufacturing Industry Occupational Health Environmental Monitoring Methods Air Pollutants Analysis Database Quality Evaluation Human Particulate Matter Blue Collar Workers Air Pollutants, Occupational Analysis United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration Sampling Methods ab: The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) gathered data between 1989 and 1997 to build an "objective database" to further understand the occupational exposures generated by the few asbestos-containing materials remaining at various steelmaking companies at this time. This paper analyzed the 520 samples from this campaign which occurred at five different steel manufacturers: Georgetown Steel Company, Inland Steel Company, Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV) Corporation, United States Steel Corporation, and Weirton Steel Corporation. This database is believed to have never previously been systematically organized. Samples were grouped based on sampling times to determine whether they should most appropriately be compared to the OSHA short-term excursion limit (EL) or the 8-hr time-weighted average (TWA) permissible exposure limit (PEL). Sampling times of 30 min or less were considered short-term samples, and samples of 180 min or greater were considered representative workday samples. Samples that did not fit into either category, with sampling times between 31 and 179 min, were considered task samples. Overall, the data indicated that the airborne concentrations were quite low in 1989 and they continued to be low through the study period which ended in 1997. Only seven out of 286 (approximately 2.5%) short-term or representative workday samples were in exceedance of the current OSHA OELs that were implemented in 1994 (short-term samples being compared to the 1 f/cc EL and representative workday samples being compared to the 0.1 f/cc 8-hr TWA PEL). Consistent with prior data, analysis of this dataset supports the view that materials containing asbestos were not used in many applications in the steel industry, and measured airborne concentrations of asbestos were almost always below the occupational exposure limits (OELs) in the post-OSHA era (1972–2000). pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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