Monitoring of personal exposure to air pollutants. Subjects' experience.
Seventeen volunteers, employees of a scientific institute, were involved in the monitoring of personal exposure to lead and cadmium in the ambient air. Thirteen of them answered a questionnaire concerning own behavior and difficulties encountered while wearing a personal sampler. Most subjects admitted that wearing the sampler and especially the noise produced by the pump made them avoid certain activities. This confirms our earlier observations that the application of personal samplers for surveying exposure of the general population might be not only costly but also tedious and unreliable. Therefore modelling based on pollutant concentrations and time spent in basic microenvironments is recommended for assessing human exposure of large population groups along with personal monitoring of a limited group of reliable subjects to validate the model.
Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health, Zagreb, Croatia.
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D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D001290:Attitude; D001519:Behavior; D002104:Cadmium / Q000032:analysis*; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000295:instrumentation; D006801:Humans; D007854:Lead / Q000032:analysis*
D000393:Air Pollutants; D002104:Cadmium; D007854:Lead