title: EV@LUTIL: An open access database on occupational exposures to asbestos and man-made mineral fibres.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of Evalutil is to document occupational exposure to asbestos and man-made mineral fibers.
  
  
  METHODS
  These databases provide grouped descriptive and metrological data from observed situations of occupational exposure, collected through the analysis of scientific articles and technical reports by industrial hygienists.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Over 5,000 measurements were collected. We describe the occupations, economic activities, fiber-containing products, and operations on them that have been documented most often. Graphical measurement syntheses of these data show that the situations presented for asbestos and RCF, except mineral wools, report fiber concentrations mainly above historical occupational exposure limits.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Free access to these data in French and in English on the Internet (https://ssl2.isped.u-bordeaux2.fr/eva_003/) helps public health and prevention professionals to identify and characterize occupational exposures to fibers. Extended recently to nanoscale particles, Evalutil continues to contribute to the improvement of knowledge about exposure to inhaled particles and the health risks associated with them.
authors.affiliation: Département santé travail, Institut de veille sanitaire, Saint-Maurice, France.
authors.forename: Ewa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Orlowski
authors.affiliation: Université de Bordeaux, Laboratoire Santé Travail Environnement, Inserm U 897, Équipe associée en santé travail, Bordeaux, France.
authors.forename: Sabyne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Audignon-Durand
authors.affiliation: Inserm, Population-based Epidemiologic Cohorts Unit, UMS 011, Villejuif, France.
authors.forename: Marcel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Goldberg
authors.affiliation: Département santé tavail, Institut de veille sanitaire, Equipe associée en santé travail, Saint Maurice, France.
authors.forename: Ellen
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Imbernon
authors.affiliation: Université de Bordeaux, Laboratoire Santé Travail Environnement, Inserm U 897, Équipe associée en santé travail, Bordeaux, France.
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Brochard
mesh_terms: D022126:Access to Information; D000395:Air Pollutants, Occupational / Q000032:analysis*; D001194:Asbestos / Q000032:analysis*; D016206:Databases, Bibliographic; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D019570:Inhalation Exposure / Q000032:analysis*; D019016:Mineral Fibers / Q000032:analysis; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000032:analysis*; D066295:Open Access Publishing
chemical_list: D000395:Air Pollutants, Occupational; D019016:Mineral Fibers; D001194:Asbestos
keywords: asbestos; database; mineral fibers; occupational exposure