Variations in exposure to inhalable wood dust in the Danish furniture industry. Within- and between-worker and factory components estimated from passive dust sampling

Peter Vinzents; Vivi Schlünssen; Helene Feveile; Inger Schaumburg

Variations in exposure to inhalable wood dust in the Danish furniture industry. Within- and between-worker and factory components estimated from passive dust sampling

Peter Vinzents, Vivi Schlünssen, Helene Feveile, Inger Schaumburg

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Abstract

Variability of exposure to wood dust at large factories in the Danish furniture industry was studied. Three repeated exposure measurements of 292 workers at 38 factories were included in the study. The measurements were carried out by use of personal passive dust monitors. The components of variance were estimated by means of a random effects ANOVA model. The ratio of within- to between-worker variance was 1.07. Based on this result, and three repeated exposure measurements, the observed relation between health outcome and exposure will be attenuated to 74% of the true value. Grouping by factory showed very poor exposure contrast, as the contrast in exposure level among factories was as low as 0.15.

Original language	English
Journal	Annals of Work Exposures and Health
Volume	45
Issue	7
Pages (from-to)	603-8
Number of pages	5
ISSN	2398-7308
Publication status	Published - Oct 2001

Keywords

Air Pollutants, Occupational
Analysis of Variance
Denmark
Dust
Environmental Monitoring
Humans
Occupational Exposure
Wood

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Variations in exposure to inhalable wood dust in the Danish furniture industry. Within- and between-worker and factory components estimated from passive dust sampling. / Vinzents, Peter; Schlünssen, Vivi; Feveile, Helene et al.
In: Annals of Work Exposures and Health, Vol. 45, No. 7, 10.2001, p. 603-8.

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Variations in exposure to inhalable wood dust in the Danish furniture industry. Within- and between-worker and factory components estimated from passive dust sampling

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