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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: | Boowook Kim, Eunyoung Kim, Wonseok Cha, Jungah Shin, Byung-Soon Choi, Daeho Kim, Miyeon Kim, Wonyang Kang, Sungwon Choi |
| المصدر: | Scientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2021) |
| بيانات النشر: | Nature Portfolio, 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Medicine LCC:Science |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Medicine, Science |
| الوصف: | Abstract 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 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2045-2322 |
| Relation: | https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-021-92809-5 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/de81150955c0468988f6a2c520bc22f3 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.81150955c0468988f6a2c520bc22f3 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 20452322 |
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| DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-021-92809-5 |