Hazards of Chloroprene and the Workplace Management
| Autor: | Cheol-Hong Lim, Hyeon-Yeong Kim |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Occupational cancer
business.product_category Chloroprene business.industry medicine.disease Occupational safety and health law.invention Toxicology chemistry.chemical_compound chemistry law Environmental health Ventilation (architecture) medicine Respirator Reproductive toxicity Hazard evaluation business Risk assessment |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas. 19:1-8 |
| ISSN: | 1226-8402 |
| DOI: | 10.7842/kigas.2015.19.3.1 |
| Popis: | In this study, we performed risk assessment of chloroprene by hazard evaluation and workplace investigation. The chemical is used to manufacture of shoes, tires, adhesives, and classified as IARC category 2B (possibly carcinogenic to humans) and target organ systemic toxicity. It is used about 1,300 tons per year in 27 sites. It was calculated the risk of carcinogenesis with chloroprene by Monte-carlo simulation that the averages are 2,199 and 26,404 in each case of working less than 15 minutes per day with local exhaust ventilation and over 4 hours per day without local exhaust ventilation. The risk of target organ systemic toxicity are 4.10 and 169.06 with high correlation with working time to be longer and with ventilation system. Therefore, it is recommended that the local exhaust ventilation and respirators to prevent occupational cancer and target organ systemic toxicity with chloroprene. Especially it is determined that there is a need to strengthen the workplace exposure limit (TWA 10 ppm) in Korea since it is managed with TWA less than 5 ppm (18 ㎎/㎥) by the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) as well as it has carcinogenicity, reproductive toxicity. Key words : chloroprene, hazard, eisk assessment, dose-responseKIGAS Vol. 19, No. 3, pp 1~8, 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.7842/kigas.20 15.19.3.1(Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas) |
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