Occupational exposure to respirable crystalline silica in municipal household waste collection and road cleaning workers
| العنوان: | Occupational exposure to respirable crystalline silica in municipal household waste collection and road cleaning workers |
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| المؤلفون: | Jungah Shin, Byung-Soon Choi, Mi-Yeon Kim, Wonyang Kang, Daeho Kim, Boowook Kim, Wonseok Cha, Sung-Won Choi, Eun Young Kim |
| المصدر: | Scientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2021) Scientific Reports |
| بيانات النشر: | Nature Portfolio, 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Sanitation, Respirable Crystalline Silica, Science, Recommended exposure limit, Air Pollutants, Occupational, macromolecular substances, Coal briquette, Coal Ash, 01 natural sciences, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Air pollutants, Occupational Exposure, Environmental health, Humans, City scale, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Inhalation Exposure, Household waste, Multidisciplinary, Dust, Silicon Dioxide, 030210 environmental & occupational health, Environmental sciences, Environmental science, Medicine, Occupational exposure, Health occupations, Environmental Monitoring |
| الوصف: | Despite the increase in the number of cases among South Korean sanitation workers, lung cancer as a result of exposure to occupational carcinogen has not been sufficiently investigated. This study aimed to identify exposure levels of sanitation workers to respirable crystalline silica (RCS) for various tasks and factors that affect individual RCS exposure. Exposure to RCS was assessed for 90 sanitation workers from seven companies. The obtained geometric mean value of the RCS was 2.6 µg m–3, which is a similar level to recommendations set by California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment's Recommended Exposure Limit. Meanwhile, coal briquette ash (CBA) collectors exhibited the highest RCS concentration (24 µg m–3), followed by road cleaning workers who used a blower, municipal household waste collectors, sweepers, and drivers (p |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2045-2322 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::9d17e3faeb8322998b242e8b54b4ae66 https://doaj.org/article/de81150955c0468988f6a2c520bc22f3 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....9d17e3faeb8322998b242e8b54b4ae66 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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