Is the New EN689 a Better Standard to Test Compliance With Occupational Exposure Limits in the Workplace?
| Autor: | D'Errico, Antonio, Houba, Remko, Kromhout, Hans, LS IRAS EEPI GRA (Gezh.risico-analyse), IRAS OH Epidemiology Chemical Agents, dIRAS RA-2 |
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| Přispěvatelé: | LS IRAS EEPI GRA (Gezh.risico-analyse), IRAS OH Epidemiology Chemical Agents, dIRAS RA-2 |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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occupational exposure limits
Environmental and Occupational Health similar exposure group Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health BOHS-NVvA Air Pollutants Occupational compliance Europe Occupational Exposure preliminary test Humans statistical test Public Health EN689 Workplace measurement strategy |
| Zdroj: | Annals of Work Exposures and Health, 66(3), 412. Oxford University Press |
| ISSN: | 2398-7316 2398-7308 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/annweh/wxab111 |
| Popis: | Objective To evaluate the performance of three measurement strategies to test compliance with occupational exposure limits of similarly exposed groups (SEGs): the old and new versions of EN689, and the BOHS-NVvA guidance on measuring compliance. Methods Respirable dust exposures concentrations (n = 1383) measured within the member companies of IMA-Europe were used to compare compliance decisions between the three measurement strategies. A total of 210 SEGs of which 158 with repeated measurements were analysed. An R studio OHcomplianceStrategies package was created for the purpose. Results The old EN689 strategy resulted in the highest number of compliant SEGs in the preliminary tests and statistical test (49–52% and 83%) with lower percentages of compliance with the new EN689 standard (32–44% and 71%). The percentage of non-compliant SEGs was relatively similar between the old and new EN689 for the preliminary tests (1–12% versus 6–11%). However, the new EN689 declared almost twofold more SEGs non-compliant when applying the statistical test (29% versus 17%). The BOHS-NVvA individual test showed results in between the 26% non-compliant SEGs. Conclusion This study showed differences in compliance decisions between the old and new EN689, with the new EN689 being considerably more stringent and resulting in more non-compliant SEGs. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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