Direct-reading instruments for aerosols: A review for occupational health and safety professionals part 1: Instruments and good practices

Donna J H Vosburgh; Emanuele Cauda; Patrick T O'Shaughnessy; Maura J Sheehan; Jae Hong Park; Kimberly Anderson

doi:10.1080/15459624.2022.2132255

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Direct-reading instruments for aerosols: A review for occupational health and safety professionals part 1: Instruments and good practices

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Direct-reading instruments for aerosols: A review for occupational health and safety professionals part 1: Instruments and good practices

Donna J H Vosburgh, Emanuele Cauda, Patrick T O'Shaughnessy, Maura J Sheehan, Jae Hong Park and Kimberly Anderson

Journal of occupational and environmental hygiene, Vol.19(12), pp.696-705

10/05/2022

DOI: 10.1080/15459624.2022.2132255

PMCID: PMC10679882

PMID: 36197119

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With advances in technology, there are an increasing number of direct-reading instruments available to occupational health and safety professionals to evaluate occupational aerosol exposures. Despite the wide array of direct-reading instruments available to professionals, the adoption of direct-reading technology to monitor workplace exposures has been limited, partly due to a lack of knowledge on how the instruments operate, how to select an appropriate instrument, and challenges in data analysis techniques. This paper presents a review of direct-reading aerosol instruments available to occupational health and safety professionals, describes the principles of operation, guides instrument selection based on the workplace and exposure, and discusses data analysis techniques to overcome these barriers to adoption. This paper does not cover all direct-reading instruments for aerosols but only those that an occupational health and safety professional could use in a workplace to evaluate exposures. Therefore, this paper focuses on instruments that have the most potential for workplace use due to their robustness, past workplace use, and price with regard to return on investment. The instruments covered in this paper include those that measure aerosol number concentration, mass concentration, and aerosol size distributions.

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Title: Subtitle: Direct-reading instruments for aerosols: A review for occupational health and safety professionals part 1: Instruments and good practices
Creators: Donna J H Vosburgh - University of Wisconsin–Whitewater
Emanuele Cauda - National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Patrick T O'Shaughnessy
Maura J Sheehan - West Chester University
Jae Hong Park - Purdue University West Lafayette
Kimberly Anderson - National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Journal of occupational and environmental hygiene, Vol.19(12), pp.696-705
DOI: 10.1080/15459624.2022.2132255
PMID: 36197119
PMCID: PMC10679882
NLM abbreviation: J Occup Environ Hyg
ISSN: 1545-9624
eISSN: 1545-9632
Language: English
Date published: 10/05/2022
Academic Unit: Civil and Environmental Engineering; Occupational and Environmental Health
Record Identifier: 9984305372802771

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