Evaluation of Ambient Air Quality by Personnel Monitoring
Author : Adrian L. Linch
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,24 MB
Release : 1976
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Author : Adrian L. Linch
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,24 MB
Release : 1976
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Author : World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
Publisher : WHO Regional Office Europe
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,79 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9789289013512
A guide to the principles and methods of air quality assessment aimed at measuring population exposure to ambient air pollutants and estimating the effects on health. Addressed to policy-makers as well as scientists engaged in air quality monitoring, the book responds to the failure of most monitoring systems to provide data that are useful in estimating and managing threats to health. The need for exposure data on populations at special risk is also addressed. Throughout, emphasis is placed on methods of monitoring and modelling that are cost-effective, targeted, and appropriate to local and national conditions. The report has six chapters. The first introduces WHO activities related to air quality management and explains the need for monitoring systems capable of assessing health impact. The types of information required for health impact assessment are described in chapter two, which outlines several methods of monitoring and modelling that can be used to measure the level and distribution of exposure to air pollutants in populations, identify population groups with high exposure, and estimate adverse effects on health. Chapter three formulates a general concept of air quality assessment, offering advice on principles for designing a monitoring network, interpreting and reporting data, and solving problems with quality assurance. Also included is a comparison of the advantages, disadvantages, and costs of different methods for air quality monitoring. Against this background, the fourth and most extensive chapter describes specific methods for the monitoring of carbon monoxide, ozone, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, particulate matter, benzene, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, lead, and atmospheric cadmium. Monitoring strategies for each pollutant are presented according to a standard format, which covers health effects, sources and exposure patterns, monitoring methods, recommended strategies for monitoring and assessment, and a practical example. The remaining chapters offer advice on the collation, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of data, and summarize the main conclusions and recommendations of the report. Detailed technical guidelines for the use of various methods and models are provided in a series of annexes. The report also reproduces the newly revised WHO air quality guidelines for Europe.
Author : A. L. Linch
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Page : 226 pages
File Size : 38,40 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Air sampling apparatus
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Author : Adrian L. Linch
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 16,88 MB
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1351088858
Personnel monitoring is a term designating the determination of the inhaled dose of an airborne toxic material of an air-mediated hazardous physical force by the continuous collection of samples in the breathing or auditory zone, or auditory zone, or other appropriate exposed body area, over a finite period of exposure time. A personnel monitor is a self-powered device worn by monitored individual to collect a representative sample of laboratory analysis, or to provide accumulated dose of instantaneous warning of immediately hazardous conditions by visible or auditory means while being worn.
Author : Adrian L. Linch
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 24,58 MB
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1351080407
Personnel monitoring is a term designating the determination of the inhaled dose of an airborne toxic material of an air-mediated hazardous physical force by the continuous collection of samples in the breathing or auditory zone, or auditory zone, or other appropriate exposed body area, over a finite period of exposure time. A personnel monitor is a self-powered device worn by monitored individual to collect a representative sample of laboratory analysis, or to provide accumulated dose of instantaneous warning of immediately hazardous conditions by visible or auditory means while being worn.
Author : A. L. Linch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,45 MB
Release : 1981-06-17
Category : Nature
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Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 25,96 MB
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Medical
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Discusses pollution from tobacco smoke, radon and radon progeny, asbestos and other fibers, formaldehyde, indoor combustion, aeropathogens and allergens, consumer products, moisture, microwave radiation, ultraviolet radiation, odors, radioactivity, and dirt and discusses means of controlling or eliminating them.
Author : S.P Singal
Publisher : ALPHA SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,10 MB
Release : 2012-01-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1783322438
AIR QUALITY MONITORING AND CONTROL STRATEGY essentially deals with air quality and underlines a strategy to improve it. To this effect this volume describes briefly the problem of air pollution, impact of various pollutants present in the indoor/outdoor atmosphere on health, the various monitoring techniques/instruments and their practical use, instructions, precautions etc., control instrumentation and environment impact assessment. The answer to questions like the need for air quality monitoring, choice of monitoring location and parameters, averaging time and frequencies etc. has been provided along with the basic statistics required to work out certain statistical figures in air quality. The science of meteorology, an important subject that takes care of dispersion/dilution of air pollutants at a place, has been discussed briefly. A chapter on noise pollution, another vital air toxicant, has also been dealt with to a certain limit. Two case studies have been incorporated to elucidate the importance of EIA and the need to develop a strategy for management of ambient air quality. Revised new standards have also been included.
Author : A. L. Linch
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,88 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Air sampling apparatus
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Author : Sponsored by The Health Effects Institute
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 703 pages
File Size : 41,86 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309037263
"The combination of scientific and institutional integrity represented by this book is unusual. It should be a model for future endeavors to help quantify environmental risk as a basis for good decisionmaking." â€"William D. Ruckelshaus, from the foreword. This volume, prepared under the auspices of the Health Effects Institute, an independent research organization created and funded jointly by the Environmental Protection Agency and the automobile industry, brings together experts on atmospheric exposure and on the biological effects of toxic substances to examine what is knownâ€"and not knownâ€"about the human health risks of automotive emissions.