Assessment of inhalation exposure potential from vapors in the workplace.
Quantitative knowledge of human exposure to a chemical represents half of the required input for the health risk assessment process by which occupational health professionals seek to integrate exposure and inherent hazard in clinically meaningful terms. This work reviews and presents explicit methodologies and approaches to the estimation of inhalation exposure to chemicals. Special attention is given to estimating vapor exposures and the critical elements of an indoor air pollution model that assumes conservation of contaminant mass in a specified box of workroom air.
Jayjock
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Rohm and Haas Company, Product Integrity Department, Philadelphia, PA 19105.
D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D004058:Diffusion; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D006801:Humans; D008452:Maximum Allowable Concentration; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D014691:Ventilation; D014835:Volatilization
D000393:Air Pollutants